Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery presents Documentary Protocols (1967-1975)

Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery Edited by: Vincent Bonin with the collaboration of Michèle Thériault
Design: FEED

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Documents: Art Workers’ Coalition, N.E. Thing Co., Joyce Wieland, Intermedia Society, A Space, Véhicule Art (Montréal) Inc., General Idea / Art Metropole, Image Bank, Western Front Society, Glenn Lewis, Michael Goldberg, Vidéographe

Introduction: Michèle Thériault

Essays by Anne Bénichou, Vincent Bonin, Marion Froger, Kristy A. Holmes, Primary Information, Felicity Tayler, David Tomas. Essays by V. Bonin, A. Bénichou and M. Froger also in French.

416 pp., b.w. illustrations (perfect binding)
isbn 978-2-920394-81-0

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Documentary Protocols (1967-1975) is the third part of an ambitious project that took place over a three-year period, and that also included two exhibitions (Documentary Protocols I and Documentary Protocols II) curated and presented at the Gallery in 2007 and 2008. This major historical publication reproduces over 250 documents from the 1960s and 70s drawn from 10 archival fonds and includes an introduction, a contextualizing essay and 6 case studies.

In the mid-1960s, Canadian artists suffered from cultural isolation as museums were indifferent to their work and the international art market seemed beyond reach. Artists made up for this state of exclusion by creating alternative spaces in which they could present experimental work and offer services to members of their communities. Documentary Protocols (1967-1975) addresses a historical moment in which the investment of the concept of information by artists converged with the role of administrator they bestowed upon themselves. The historical trajectory of these self-managed organizations can now be observed in their archival fonds, where the results of partially realized utopias exist alongside material evidence of the labour of artists. Following the decompartmentalization characterizing the period, the editorial structure of this publication provides equal visibility both to the sampling of documents and to the case studies based on the close reading of these items.

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Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery
Concordia University
1400, boul. de Maisonneuve West
Montreal (Québec) Canada
H3G 1M8

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