A session at the Universities Art Association of Canada/L'Association de l'art des universités du Canada Annual Conference, October 27–29, 2011, at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario

CALL FOR PAPERS

Recent exhibitions—from Documentary Protocols to Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada, 1965-1980 (2007-2010; 2010)—signal a surge of scholarly interest in conceptual art in Canada of the 1960s and 1970s. How might these and other recent projects be read as contributing to a history of contemporary art in Canada, and to conceptual art specifically? What issues are raised in examining Canadian art of this period and how might one approach questions such as the formation and proliferation of artist-run centres, government sponsorship in the arts, the role of art schools, transregional networking, or national and international centres and peripheries? Is a local, urban, regional or national framework tenable, and if so, how? We especially welcome papers which critically assess recent scholarship, exhibition making and/or pedagogy related to conceptual art in Canada and its international contexts.

SESSION CHAIRS

Barbara Fischer, Executive Director/Chief Curator
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House
Senior Lecturer, Department of Art, University of Toronto

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Adam Welch, PhD student
Art History, University of Toronto

DEADLINE

May 15, 2011