1674 Robie Street,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3E7, (902) 425-4085
/ (902) 494-8155
bbarber@nscad.ns.ca
:
Place of Birth: Auckland, New Zealand
Citizenship: New Zealand/ Canadian.
Marital Status: Partner, Dr. Pauline Gardiner
Barber
Children: Claire (21), Lachlan (20)
Current Position: Professor, Media Arts &
Visual Culture Studies
Director MFA programme
Nova Scotia College of Art & Design;
Professor of Humanities, Contemporary Studies,
University of Kings College
Halifax, Nova Scotia
:
1969-73 School of Fine Arts, University of
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
B.F.A. Majors: Sculpture, Art History
1973-74 School of Fine Arts, University of
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
M.F.A. 1st Class Honours.
Majors: Sculpture, Art History, (M.A. level)
1976-78 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design,
Halifax, N.S.
M.F.A. Media Arts & Theory & Criticism.
:
1972 Senior Prize in Fine Arts, Auckland University
1973 Senior Scholar in Art History, Auckland
University
1974 Fowlds Memorial Prize in Fine Arts, Auckland
University
1976-78 Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship
1977 Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of N.Z.
Travel and Project Award
1982 NSCAD Faculty Research Award SSHRCC
1983 NSCAD Faculty Research Award SSHRCC
1984-85 Canada Council "B" Award
(Art Criticism)
1985 Ontario Arts Council Project Award (Criticism)
1988 Canada Council Project and Travel Award
1989 NSCAD Faculty (SSHRCC) Research/Travel
Award
1991 NSCAD Faculty (SSHRCC) Research/Travel
Award
1992 NSCAD Faculty (SSHRCC) Research/Travel
Award
1994 Canada Council Short Term Travel and
Publication Award
1995 NSCAD Faculty (SSHRCC) Research/Travel
Award
1997-2000 Social Science and Humanities Research
Council Grant (3 yrs)
1999 University of Rochester Summer Institute
Fellowship
:
1975 Junior Lecturer, Auckland University,
School of Fine Arts (Sculpture Department)
1976-78 Teaching Assistant, Nova Scotia College
of Art and Design, (Intermediate and Advanced
Studio courses, Intro Sculpture. Performance
Theory and Practice)
1978 Assistant Professor, Nova Scotia College
of Art & Design, Intermedia/Studio.
1979-81 Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser
University, Centre for the Arts (Studio all
levels, Art History {C19th,C20th}, Studio
Theory/Criticism seminars, Intermedia, Video,
Performance Theory/Practice seminar)
1981 Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta. (Performance
History/Theory lectures and workshops)
1987 Auckland University, School of Fine Arts
Visiting Professor (Winter session) Intermedia/Sculpture
Department.
1981- Assistant Professor Intermedia, Nova
Scotia College of Art & Design, Intermedia
and Photo Area Co-ordinator
(1981-82), Intermedia Area Co-ordinator (1981-84).
Teaching Assignments: Foundation, Drawing,
Performance, Intermedia Workshop, Video Workshops,
Printed Matter Workshops and related History/Theory/Criticism
seminars, Art History Film Survey Seminars,
Studio, all levels including Graduate supervision.
1993- Associate Professor, Nova Scotia College
of Art & Design
1994-95 Intermedia Co-ordinator, Associate
Professor, Nova Scotia College of Art &
Design
1996-7 Chair Media Arts Department, NSCAD
(Media Arts Film History, Visual Culture Studies)
1997-8 Professor and Assistant Dean, Visual
Culture Studies (Media arts, Film History,
Visual Culture Studies)
1998- Teaching Fellow University Kings College
(Contemporary Studies Programme)
NSCAD Film Studies, Visual Culture Studies,
Foundation and Media Arts.
2000 On Sabbatical; Director MFA programme
(July 1st, 2000)
2001- Director MFA Programme, (Teaching Fellow
and Professor of Humanities, Contemporary
Studies Program, University of Kings College).
: (From 1980)
1980-81 Departmental Curriculum Development
Committee, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby,
B.C.
1980-81 Student Awards Committee (Centre for
the Arts S.F.U.), Burnaby, B.C.
1981-95 Nova Scotia College of Art & Design
Committee and Administrative Work:
Area Co-Ordinator Photo and Intermedia ; Off-Campus
Study Committee ; Student Awards (1981-82),
Area Co-Ordinator Intermedia (1981-84); Financial
Aid and Student Affairs (Chairperson) (1983);
Faculty Status and Affairs (1984); Anna Leonowens
Gallery Committee (1984-85); Faculty Union
(FUNSCAD) Executive (1984-92); P.R. Committee
(FUNSCAD) (1985); Studio Division Curriculum
Committee (1984-86);
NSCAD Alumni Association Foundation Board
Member and Executive Secretary (1986-87);
FUNSCAD Executive and P.R. Committee (Chair),
Academic Review Committees (1987); Academic
Council, Joint Benefits Committee, Divisional
Credit Policy Committee, Intermedia Curriculum
Redesign Committee (1989); Academic Council,
Graduate Director, Chair, MFA Graduate Committee,
FUNSCAD (Faculty Union) Executive, Chair Finance
Committee (1990-92); MFA Ad Hoc Review Committee
(1990-95); Faculty Representative, Board of
Governors, Nominating Committee and Academic
Committee (1992); Joint Benefits Committee
FUNSCAD (1993).
1990-95 University Art Teachers Assoc of Canada
UAAC Board Member, Atlantic Representative.
UAAC 1992, 1994 Annual Conference Organising
Committee Chair
1990-95 LJB Media Arts Foundation Board, Halifax
1994 Chair Inter-University Ad Hoc Film Studies
Committee
1995-9 Curriculum development, Academic Council
and 8 other NSCAD committees
Halifax Inter-University Film Studies Committee
(Chair)
2000 MFA Committee; Faculty Council, Academic
Programme Committee and six other NSCAD and
Kings Committees
:
1970-73 New Zealand Scratch Orchestra-Antipodean
Twig from the London Root Group
1973-75 From Scratch, (Percussion/Performance
Group)
1973-76 New Zealand Society of Sculptors and
Painters
1973-75 Auckland Filmmakers Co-Operative
1977- UAAC (University Art Association of
Canada) Executive and Board member, Atlantic
Representative, 1990/5.
1980-81 Unit 306 (Unit/Pitt Gallery), Society
for the Arts, Vancouver, B.C. (Founding Member)
1983-5 Anthropology and Sociology Association
of Canada
1984-8 CAR (Canadian Artists Representation),
Halifax, N.S.
1984-9 Canadian Artists Union (CAU) Toronto,
Ontario
1985- Popular Culture Association (American)
1987-93 Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS), Halifax,
N.S.
1986-97 Faculty Union of NSCAD (Executive),
Halifax, N.S.
1987-8 NSCAD Alumni Association (Founding
member, Executive and Board 1987-8), Halifax,
N.S.
1989-90 American Studies Association.
1989-90 Canadian Society for Aesthetics.
1989- Linda Joy Media Arts Society (Board
Member, Artistic Director, Acting Chair (2000),
Halifax, N.S.
Canadian Film Studies Association, Board Member
at Large
American Cinema Studies Assn.
1997 cont. Canadian Film Studies Association;
Cinema Studies Association; Universities Art
Association of Canada
2002- Culture Studies Association of Canada
S:
1980 Canada Council Jury Member, Multi-Media
Short Term Awards
- Delegate to B.C. Council, Conference for
Art in Higher Education
1981 Canada Council External Assessor for
Short Term Applications
- Canada Council Jury Member, Video Short
term and "B" Awards
1982 Convenor / Chair, East Coast Art Colleges
Intermedia Teachers Coordinators Meeting,
The Cooper Union, New York
- Canada Council Jury Multi-Disciplinary and
Special Projects
1984 Canada Council External Assessor for
Short Term Awards (Explorations)
1985 Ontario Arts Council Jury Member, Visual
Arts - Critics Awards
1986 Canada Council Jury Critics (Projects
"A" and "B" Awards)
1990 Canada Council External Consultant Arts
Publications Assistance
1991 External Assessor Auckland University
School of Fine Arts Review
- Social Science and Humanities Research Council
of Canada,
Art History Research Grant Application Assessor
- Ontario College of Art Review Task Force
Review Panel Chairperson and member.
Foundation, Liberal Studies, General Studies,
New Media Review Teams.
- External Consultant and Graduate Studies
Review Committee member, MFA Program
Concordia Unviersity, Montreal, Quebec
1992 Canada Council Jury Member Exhibitions
and Publications Assistance Jury Member
- Canada Council, External Assessor, Publications
Application
1992/3/4 University of Toronto Press, Manuscripts
Assessor
1994 Universite du quebec, New Phd Program
Assessor
1994/5/9 Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada, Adjudication Committee
Member
1996 SSHRCC Fine Arts Adjudication Committee
(Chair)
1997 SSHRCC Fine Arts External Assessor for
five Standard Research Applications
1998-9 SHRCC Fine Arts External Assessor for
two Standard Research Grants, one Killam Fellowship.
2000 SHRCC Fine Arts External Assessor for
one Standard Research Grants,
2001 SHRCC External Assessor for three Standard
research grants;
- Assessor, new Maitrisse en Art programme
proposal Universite du Quebec a Chicoutimi
for CREPUQ
:
(SOLO) MULTI-DISCIPLINARY
SCULPTURE/PHOTO, INSTALLATION, VIDEO, AUDIO,
PERFORMANCE, BOOKWORKS.
1973 MFA Exhibition, School of Fine Arts,
Auckland, N.Z.
1974 Two Days. School of Fine Arts, Auckland,
N.Z.
- Four Men in a Boat. Auckland City Art Gallery,
Auckland, N.Z.
1975 Stocks and Bonds. Project Programme Auckland
City Art Gallery, Auckland, N.Z.
1976 Like A Bat Out'a Hell. Art Gallery of
Nova Scotia, Halifax, N.S.
- Whittler's Soliloquies. Franklin Furnace,
New York, N.Y.
1977 Detente Franklin Furnace, New York, N.Y.
1978 E and Audience Arrangements. Anna Leonowens
Galleries 1&2 Halifax, N.S.
- Revolve. Anna Leonowens Gallery I Halifax,
N.S.
1980 Function. Western Front Society, Vancouver
B.C.
1981 Motor Drive. Banff Centre for the Arts,
Banff, Alta.
1982 Vital Speeches. Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax,
N.S.
- Wrong Route To Peace and Vital Speeches.
Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North, N.Z.
1983 Windows of Vulnerability. Centre for
Art Tapes, Halifax, N.S.
1984 Reading Room I A Visual Analysis of Corporate
Advertising Saint Mary's University Art Gallery,
Halifax, N.S. (catalogue)
1985 Reading Room I. 49th Parallel Gallery,
New York, N.Y.
1987 Reading Room II Remembering Vietnam,
again. Eyelevel Art Gallery, Halifax, N.S.
- Reading Room II Artspace, Auckland, N.Z.
1991 Reading Room III Red Room. Eyelevel Art
Gallery Halifax, N.S.
(book, "Reading Rooms" includes
documentation from previous Reading Rooms
and essays. Halifax, Eyelevel Gallery Publications,
1992, 150pp illus.
1999 Squat "Streaming A Laboratory "Walter
Phillips Art Gallery, Banff Centrefor the
Arts, Banff AlbertaEXHIBITIONS: (Two person
and group 1972-)
1972 School of Fine Arts Group Exhibition.
Auckland Society of Arts Gallery, Auckland
N.Z.
- Contemporary N.Z. Sculpture: Govett Brewster
gallery, New Plymouth, N.Z.
- N.Z. Universities Arts Festival Exhibition,
Auckland and Wellington (Victoria University),
N.Z.
1973 New Zealand Society of Sculptors and
Painters Group Exhibition, Osbourne Galleries,
Auckland, N.Z.
- Mildura Sculpturescape, Mildura, Australia
(catalogue)
1974 Young N.Z. Artists, National Gallery,
Wellington, N.Z. (catalogue/poster)
- N.Z. Society of Sculptors and Painters Group
Exhibit Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland, N.Z.
- Dance In New Dimensions Auckland City Town
Hall, Auckland, N.Z.
1975 6th Mildura Sculpture Festival, Mildura,
Australia (catalogue).
- 12 N.Z. Artists Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney,
Australia.
1976 Experimental Arts Foundation, Adelaide,
Australia.
- Mask/Masque Mildura, Australia, (catalogue)
1977 Hands Manawatu Public Art Gallery, Palmerston
North N.Z.
- Video Store National Art Gallery, Wellington
N.Z.
- 10th Paris Biennale Musee d'art Moderne,
Paris, France, catalogues
1978 N.Z. Artists Books Franklin Furnace,
New York N.Y.USA (catalogue)
- NSCAD Faculty Show Mt St. Vincent University
Art Gallery, Halifax, N.S., Canada
1979 Drawing Invitational Auckland City Art
Gallery, Auckland, N.Z.
- Sydney Biennale, Art Gallery of New South
Wales Sydney, Australia (catalogue)
- Propositions/Documents National Art Gallery
Wellington, N.Z.
- Living Arts Performance Festival, Vancouver,
B.C. (book/catalogue)
1980 Warehouse 222 A Space and Harbourfront
Galleries. Art International 80, Toronto,
Ont. (catalogue)
1981 Vigilance Artists Books, Franklin Furnace,
New York N.Y. (catalogue)
1982 Agit Prop Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta
(catalogue)
- Agit Prop International Performance Series
Mercer Union, Toronto, Ont.
1983 Auckland University Centenial Exhibition
Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland. (catalogue)
- Activist Work Red Herring Bookstore, Halifax,
N.S.
- Artists Call (Halifax) Centre for Art Tapes,
Halifax, N.S. (exhibitor and Halifax organiser)
1984 Audio Festival Audio Installation Exhibit
Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, N.S.
- Performance as Resistance Toronto/Halifax,
Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax N.S. (North
End Public Library)
1985 The Art of Memory/The Loss of History
The New Museum. New York N.Y. (catalogue)
1986 N.S. Audio Festival Eye Level Gallery,
Halifax, N.S.
- N.S. Artists Against Militarism Anna Leonowens
Gallery, Halifax, N.S.
- Plakate International (Touring) Rostock,
Dresden, Potsdam G.D.R. (catalogue)
1987 Resistance - Anti-Baudrillard (Group
Material Exhibit) White Columns Gallery, New
York, N.Y.
- A Decade of NSCAD Video (co-curator and
exhibitor) Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax,
N.S.
1988 Two Countries/Two Cities Halifax/Lublin
Exchange Exhibition Labyrinth Gallery Lublin,
Poland (co-curator/exhibitor) (poster/catalogue)
1988-89 80/20 NSCAD Centenial Art Gallery
of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Kitchener
Waterloo Art Gallery; Art Gallery of Windsor;
Edmonton Art Gallery.(catalogue) (book/catalogue)
- Immedia Concerto 10th Anniversary Exhibition,
Galerie Le Lieu, Quebec City, P.Q. (catalogue)
1989-92 A Different War: Vietnam in Art Whatcom
Museum, Bellingham, Washington; De Cordova,
Boston, Mass; University of Colorado, Akron
Museum of Art, Ohio; Madison Art Centre Wisconsin;
UCLA, California, North Western University
and other venues. (book/catalogue)
1990-92 Memory Works: Post-Modern Impulses
In Canadian Art London Regional Art Gallery,
London, Ontario; Mississauga Civic Centre
Gallery, Ontario; Glenbow Museum, Calgary,
Alberta. (book/catalogue)
1990 Interscop International Performance,
Installation and Video Exhibition, Warsaw,
Lublin, Poland. (catalogue)
1991 Conflict and Contradiction: The Millenium
Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, N.S.
- `s Tea MFA Group Exhibition Anna Leonowens
Gallery, Halifax, N.S.
- Independent Curators Inc Benefit Exhibition
Beth Cutler Gallery N.Y.C., N.Y.
- Story Telling/ Real Time Festival Performance,
Video and Installation Gdansk/Sopot Poland
(catalogue)
1992 Excursions MFA Group Exhibit Anna Leonowens
Gallery II, Halifax, N.S.
- Photography, ASA, VHS and other Formats
Anna Leonowens Gallery 1, Halifax, N.S.
1992 Intermedia Group Exhibition Gallery OO,
Halifax, N.S.
- Foodart OXFAM Benefit Exhibition and Auction,
Saint Mary's University, Halifax, N.S.
- Gallery Dzilian, Installation, Warsaw, Poland
1993 Gallery Dzilian/Warsaw/Labyrinth Gallery
Lublin, Poland Story Telling/RealTime International
Festival #2
1994 Group Exhibition NSCAD, Anna Leonowens
Gallery, Halifax, N.S.
1995 NSCAD Faculty Exhibition Khyber Projects
Centre, Halifax, N.S.
- Inferno Surveyed, Photographers Worskshop
Gallery, Toronto, Ont.
1996 Action /Cognition, Reading Room IV (preliminary)
with Kil-Young Yoo, Anna Leonowens Gallery,
Halifax, NS
1997 Eyelevel Benefit Exhibition, Halifax,
N.S.
1998 Squat (with Jon David Welland) Khyber
Centre for the Arts Gallery.
The Lure of Language Lopdell Art Gallery Auckland
New Zealand
The Seventies Art Space, Auckland, and Govett
Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth N.Z.
The Unyielding Impulse Art Gallery of Nova
Scotia
The 1970’s: A Survey ArtSpace, Auckland
City Art Gallery, Auckland and Govett Brewster
Galleries, New Plymouth New Zealand
Eyelevel Gallery and Kyhber Arts Centre Fundraiser
Invitational Auction.
Galerie Le Lieu, Quebec City, Quebec
1999 Autumn Gold St Mary’s University
Gallery and Khyber Arts Centre Invitational
2000 Struts Art Gallery "The Sweetest
Little Thing"
Interaction 2000 Pitrokow Trybunalksi, Poland
organised by Galleries OFF and Urzad Mieejski
and Video Art Action (Paris); Installation
and Performance in Galerie Dzialan, Warsaw.
International Postcard Exhibit; Sharjah Arts
Museum. United Arab Emirates
Robert Macdougal Art Gallery, Chrishchurch,
New Zealand Post Object and Performance Art
in New Zealand 1970 and Beyond (Catalogue)
2001 Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax,
Nova Scotia Fundraiser Exhibition
Eyelevel Gallery; Novel Squat Window Installation
-- Work included in various private and public
collections in New Zealand, Canada, Australia,
Poland and the U.S.
-- Artists Books included in library collections
of Art Metropole, Toronto; Franklin Furnace,
New York; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; Musee
d’art moderne, Paris; University of Auckland,
National Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand;
Museum of Modern Art, New York.
-- Permanent installation and prints Labyrinth
Gallery, Lublin and Dziaian Gallery, Poland.
:
1971 Three Situations Environmental Structures
Fletcher Industries commission with David
Brown and Maree Horner, Bledisloe Place, Auckland,
N.Z.
1972 Three Environmental Corridors with Maree
Horner Auckland Interna-tional Expo Commission
(not built due to financial restraints)
:
(OUTDOOR)
1973 Whatipu Beach Performance, Auckland,
N.Z.
- Mount Eden (Volcano) Performance, Auckland,
N.Z.
- Simultaneous Tree Planting for Three Separate
Locations, Auckland, Keri Keri, Kumeu, N.Z.
1973-74 Bucket Action (I & II) Keri Keri,
Auckland 1/2" b&w 40 mins (Performance
document) (Pal)
1974 Handgame 1/2" b& w 30 mins silent
(Video installation tape) (Pal)
- A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed 1/2"
and 3/4 " 40 mins b&w (Pal &
NTSC optical dub)
1975 Journey (Auckland - Waitakere) 1/2"
b&w 30 mins (Performance tape Like A Bat
Out'a Hell) (PAL)
1975 Box and Cox Workout 1/2" b&w
30 mins (Installation/Performance tape) (PAL)
1976 Journey II (Halifax - Truro) 1/2"
b&w dub 3/4" b&w 30 mins (Performance
Like a Bat and Function and installation tape)
(NTSC)
1977 Revolve 3/4" colour 40 mins (Performance
Rehearsal document) (NTSC)
1979 E 3/4" colour 3 X 20 mins (Performance
rehearsal tape Documents) (NTSC)
- Latin Politics 3/4" colour 10 mins
(NTSC)
- Trident 3/4" colour 10 mins (NTSC)
1980 Function Part I 3/4" b&w 26
mins (Performance Rehearsal Document) (NTSC)
1982 Agit Lecture #3 Poster Packing 3/4"
colour 10 mins (Banff centre Document) (NTSC)
1984 United Technologies: An Analysis 3/4"
colour (Compilation-Discussion tape) (NTSC)
(VHS Dubs)
1987 Remembering Vietnam, Again 1/2 VHS 120
mins (Detourned Drama-Oliver Stones' Platoon
Installation Discussion tape) (NTSC)
1989 Polska Na Wiosne/Poland in Spring (Detourned
Documentary)
1993-4 Phillippines Documents: Melvin Adlao
Artist
1999 Squat with Squat (wri) ter Katherine
Grant
2000 Box Set of 13 video tapes Bruce Barber
Films and Videos 1972-2000 (NTSC)
:
1970 ....To Play With 16mm b&w 15 mins
(silent)
1972 Erofly Super 8 8 mins (silent) (and VHS)
1973 Whatipu Beach Performance Super 8, 9
mins (and VHS)
1972/3 UD, UDS super 8, 12 mins (and VHS)
1972 UD, UDS: An Exercise in Myth Formation,(Limited
Edition) Auckland, N.Z.
1975 On The Stocks Companion text for Performance
Installation Stocks and Bonds, Auckland City
Art Gallery Auckland, N. Z.
1976 Whittler's Soliloquies Companion text
for Installation/performance Experimental
Arts Foundation Adelaide, Australia.
1977 La detente: un exegese d'un cliche politique.
French/English Companion text for the performance
La Detente 10th Paris Biennale, Paris, France
1981 Audience Arrangements, in A Book Working
Eds Greyson, J., Guest, T., et al A Space
publications.
1984 Readings Companion Text for Reading Room
Installation St Mary's University Art Gallery,
Halifax, N.S
2000 NovelSquat. On Line Collaborative Novel
(in the making) produced with the collaboration
of approximately 50 authors at http://novelsquat.com
BOOKS:
1983 Essays on [Performance] and Cultural
Politicisation Bruce Barber (Guest Editor
and contributor) Special double issue OPEN
LETTER 5th series No's 5 & 6 Summer Fall
1983, Toronto, Coachhouse Press 1983 262 pp
b&w illus , 14 essays
1992 Bruce Barber Reading Rooms (6 Essays,
interview / documentation of Reading Rooms
and related works from 1980 - 1992) 140 pp
illus b&w and colour, Halifax, Eye Level
Publications 1992
1996 Barber, Bruce, Guilbaut, Serge and O'Brian,
John (eds) Voices of Fire: Art Rage, Power
and the State, Toronto University of Toronto
Press. 1996
2002 Bruce Barber (editor) Conceptual Art:
The NSCAD Connection 1967-1973 Anna Leonowens
Gallery, NSCAD
Forthcoming:
[2002] Barber, Bruce Popular Modernisms: Art,
Cartoons, Comics and: Cultural In/Subordination
(Final stages of editing before re submission
to publisher)
In Progress-
Barber, Bruce and Susan Douglas (editors)
Blood, Sweat and Tears: Body Fluids in Art
and Art History manuscript in preparation
for submission to publishers (Summer 2002).
- Art Crimes: Art, Film and Cultural In/subordination
Research being undertaken with the support
of a three year 1998-2001 SSHRCC (Social Science
and Humanities Research Grant; six of proposed
ten chapters completed and presented in the
form of conference papers)
-Performance, Performers [Performance]: Essays
and Interviews A compilation of 9 previously
published and 2 unpublished essays and 10
interviews from 1978-2000.
1978 "Problems in the Taxonomy of Performance
and Body Art" in Gale, P., and Bronson,
A.A. (eds) Performance by Artists Art Metropole
Publications, Toronto
1979 "The Function of [Performance] in
Post-Modern Culture:A Critique" in Performance
Text(e)s and Documents (ed) Pontbriand, C.
Editions Parachute 1980-81
1980 "Performance for Pleasure and Performance
for Instruction" in Balkind, A. (et al)
Living Arts Performance Festival Publication
Winter, Vancouver
1982 The Institutional Conceits of Theodore
Wan" in Wan/Lake, University of Alberta
Art Gallery Exhibition Catalogue
1982 "Appropriation/Expropriation:Convention
or Intervention" Introductory Catalogue
Essay for Appropriation/Expropriation Exhibition.
Mt. St. Vincent University Art Gallery Halifax,
N.S.
1983 Introduction and contributing essay:
Essays on [Performance] and Cultural Politicisation
(ed) Barber, B. OPEN LETTER special double
issue 5th series No's 5&6 Summer/fall
83 Coach House Press 262 pp.
"Halifax/Auckland Exchange" Introductory
Catalogue Essay. Eyelevel Art Gallery Fall
"Radio:Audio Art's Frightful Parent"
(edited) Published in Lander, D and Lexier,
M., Audio By Artists Toronto, Art Metropole
Publications 1990
"Auto-Interview" Performance au/in
Canada (eds) Martel, R.., Richard- Martin-A,
Robertson,and contributing eds C. Le Lieu
Publications Quebec 1990
1994 "Art History’s Significant
Other: Film Studies" in Cheetham, M.,
Holly, M-A, Moxey, K. (eds), The Subjects
in Art History: Historical Objects in Contemporary
Perspective. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne,
Cambridge University Press (1996)
1998 "Jubal Brown’s Blague: The
Sovereign Consciousness of In/Subordination"
Catalogue essays in So High That I could Almost
see Eternity, International Symposium of Performance
Art Owens Art gallery and Struts Gallery,
Sackville, N.B.
1998 "A Meditation on Brian Szeto’s
Girl Washing Dishes", Belize 1993, Catalogue
essay for Brian Szeto Children at Work, Artist
Commune, Hong Kong
1998 "Jubal Brown’s Blague: The
Sovereign Consciousness of In/Subordination"
French version Inter Number 75 Winter 2000
1999 "Three Modes of Canadian Performance
in the 1990’s" in Martel, R and
Perrault, N et al Art Action 1958-1998 Inter
Publications
- "Praxis Point" in Gilbert, J-P,
Gilbert, SD, Johnstone L (eds) So, to Speak,
(Prende Parole) ArtTextes Editions, Montreal
1999
2000 "Work with, Work Without ideas:
Reflections on Work, Value and the Volk"
in Berland, J and Hornstein, S. Capital Culture:
A reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions
and the Values of Art McGill Queens University
Press 2000
"The Gift in Littoral Practice"
in Intervention: Post-Object Art in New Zealand,
1970 and Beyond. Robert McDougall Art Gallery
and Annex publication, Christchuch New Zealand,
2000
:
(to 1998)
1972 Influx SEED 1:5 Auckland, N.Z.
1973 Some Aspects of Video Usage in New Zealand
AlTERNATIVE CINEMA 1:2 November
1975 Completing the Incomplete: A Survey of
Developments in the Work of Sculptor Greer
Twiss ISLANDS Vol 4:4 Summer
1978 The Terms: The Limits to Performance?
(Excerpted Taxonomy essay) CENTREFOLD 2:6
Fall 1978, Toronto
1980 The Museum as New Media FUSE 4:4 May,
Toronto
- The Social Performer LIVE 1:4 December,
New York
- Post-Modernism, Primivitivism and Parody
in the Architectural Image PARACHUTE 21 Winter,
Montreal
1981 Performance as Social and Cultural Intervention:
Interviews with Martha Rosler and Adrian Piper
Barber and Guilbaut, Serge. PARACHUTE 23 Summer,
Montreal
- Adrian Piper: It's Just Art PARACHUTE 24
October, Montreal
- Laurie Anderson Interview Barber and Serge
Guilbaut
ENNUI March/April issue, Vancouver
- Modernism and Modernity Conference FUSE
October, Toronto
- Clive Robertson: Popular Songs PARACHUTE
25 Winter, Montreal
1983 Nancy Nicol: Videotapes PARACHUTE 30
March/April/May, Montreal
1984 Inturbulence: The Radio Program Tony
McCaulay and Sam Krizan Exhibition (catalogue,
introductory essay) York University Art Gallery,
Toronto
- Appropriation/Expropriation:Convention or
Intervention? PARACHUTE 33 December/February,
Montreal
- Technophiles, Technophobes and Technocrats
ANNPAC Conference FUSE 8:3 Fall, Toronto
- Some Notes on Propaganda and Advocacy Advertising
MIDCONTINENTAL 3:1 Dec., Winnipeg
1985 Evidence of the Avant-Garde Since 1957:
Selected Works from the Collection of Art
Metropole PARACHUTE 38 March/April/May, Montreal
- Packaging a Movement Book review Battcock,
G. Nickas, R. The Art of Performance Dutton
FUSE 8:5 Feb/March
- The European Iceberg AGO Exhibit curated
by Germano Celant FUSE Vol 8:7 Summer
- Agit-Crit Book Review Lippard, L. Get The
Message Dutton FUSE Vol 8:6
- Installation: Pro-Bono Publico Special Issue
Installation PARACHUTE 39 May/June
- Propaganda and Advocacy Advertising Page
works
Nickas, R/. (Ed) NEW OBSERVATIONS Art and
Text issue Hunger for Words Milan/New York
- Notes Toward an Adequate Interventionist
[Performance] Practise THE ACT Vol 1:1 Fall,
New York
-1986 Reports section 3 reviews FUSE 40 Spring
- Reports section 2 reviews FUSE 41 Summer
1986
1987 Time For a Gift: Bob Bean and David Craig
FUSE 42 Summer 1987
- Standing the Gaff International Festival
of Popular Theatre Cape Breton (Sydney, Glace
Bay,
Nova Scotia) FUSE 44 Fall
- Pratt and Whitney Exhibit Report FUSE Winter
1987/88
1988 Artists and Taxes report FUSE July 1988
- No Deal Eh? Anti-Free Trade Rally report
FUSE September
- A Subjective Appreciation.... PARALLELOGRAMME
14:2 Fall/Winter
- A Subjective Appreciation ... (edited) REWIRE
1:3 April
- Two Countries Two Cities Halifax/Lublin
Exchange Introduction, Centre for Art Tapes
Halifax, N.S., Fall
- With The Eyes Shut Radio/Kunst Styrian Festival
Report Graz Austria and Interview with Heidi
Grundmann (Radio Kunst) FUSE 12:4 December
1989 Radio: Audio Art's Frightful Parent (edited)
BORDERLINES 14 spring/summer
- Keyword:Performance ANTIC 1:5 Winter, Auckland,
N.Z.
- Canneries Video review Visions 89 FUSE Summer
1990 Performance[performance] (keyword) INTER
Magazine No 45 Quebec
- Review Bolton, R. (ed) The Contest of Meaning:
Critical Histories in Photography Parachute
59 September
- Interview with Richard Layzell. HARBOUR
Vol 1 No 1 Halifax / Montreal
1991 "Excision, Detournement and Reading
the Open Text" REWIRE Vol 1 no 3 1991
1992 "Opening Remarks" to the No
Laughing Matter Exhibition REWIRE Vol 1:3,
1992
- Book Review Parachute 68 Oct/Nov/Dec 1992
Cheetham, M., The Rhetoric of Purity: Essentialist
Theory and the Advent of Abstract Painting
Cambridge University Press 1991
1995 "The Art of Giving" Chimera
Conference Catalogue, Goethe Institute, Sydney,
Australia
1996 "The Art of Giving", EVA (Electronic
Visual Arts Journal), London, Ontario, Vol
1, No. 2.
- "The Art of Giving", FUSE magazine,
Vol No: January 1996-
1997 Book Review Bande Dessine au Quebec Inks:
Cartoon and Comic Art Studies, Ohio University
Book Review AGNS Folk Art Catalogue New Maritimes
Magazine
1998 David Zapparoli Exhibition Brochure Essay
Eyelevel Gallery Halifax, Nova Scotia
2000 "Windows, Mirrors and Doors. The
Surveillance Paradox and the Death of Space"
New Dentist #3 www.newcastle.edu.au/discipline.fine-art/pubs
2002 Book Review of Cheetham, M Kant, Art
and Art History: Moments of Discipline www.arthist.net/
February 2002
Essay with Jeff Dayton –Johnson "Marking
the limit: reframing a Micro-Economy for the
Arts (French and Ebnglish. Parachute 106,
April 2002
(to 1995)
1977 UAAC (Canadian Universities Art Teachers
Assn) Paper: The Non-Relevance of Structuralism
to Recent Art Theory and Analysis (Methodologies
Session) unpublished.
1978 UAAC Conference, Victoria B.C. Indexing:Problems
for the Contemporary Art Researcher session
Methodologies Published First section of "Towards
a Taxonomy of Performance and Body Art"
in Performance by Artists Gale,P and Bronson
A.A.(eds) Toronto Art Metropole 1978.
1979 UAAC Conference, Halifax, Paper: An Attack
on High Art Masquerading as Dumb Art (Thanx
to Dennis Young) Session Art and Politics
unpublished.
1980 UAAC Conference, Ottawa The Museum as
New Media (New Media panel) Published FUSE
4:4 May 1980.
- PARACHUTE Conference. Performance and Multidisciplinarity.
Universite de Quebec, Montreal. Paper: The
1981 Banff Centre, Banff Alberta Art as an
experimentation panel. "Notes on Experimentation
and the Avant-Garde" unpublished.
1983 UAAC, Vancouver B.C. Paper: "Appropriation
and the Work of Sherrie Levine" Session
Art and Technology unpublished.
- Learned Societies of Canada Annual meeting
Sociology and Art Session; Anthropology and
Sociology Assn. of Canada "Low Culture's
Critique of High Culture: Case Studies from
the Disney Studios" unpublished.
1984 PARACHUTE Conference:Art and Criticism
in the Eighties. Session "The Artist
As Critic", Ontario College of Art, Toronto
unpublished.
- UAAC Montreal Session High Culture/ Popular
Culture (Chair B.Barber) paper: "Popular
Culture versus high Culture: Case Studies
from the New Yorker " (unpublished).
1985 American Popular Culture Association
Conference, Louisville, Kentucky Session The
Print Media Newspapers and magazines "High
Culture v. Low Culture: New Yorker Studies"
(unpublished).
1986 UAAC Conference Victoria B.C. Session:
Socio-Contextual Art for the Eighties (Chair)
Paper: "The Institutionalisation of Installation"
- American Popular Culture Assn, Atlanta,
Georgia
Session: Comic Strips and Cartoons Paper:
"Interclass Conflict: Case Studies from
the New Yorker and Punch" unpublished.
1987 American Popular Culture Assn. Conference,
Montreal Session:Comics, Culture and Communications
Paper: "The Cartoon as Site of Class
Conflict" (unpublished).
- UAAC Conference Halifax, N.S. Studio Art
Session: Democratisation of the Arts (Chair)
Art History Session Art and Politics: Methodologies
(Chair) Paper: The Cartoon as Site of Class
Conflict: Case Studies from the New Yorker
and Punch Magazines unpublished.
1988 Steirischer Herbst (Styrian Autumn Festival)
With the Eyes Closed KunstRadio Audio Art
Theory and Practise Symposium, Graz, Austria.
paper: "Radio:Audio Art's Frightful Parent"
(edited) Published in Audio By Artists Lander,
D and lexier, M. Toronto, Art Metropole Publications
1989 and version in BORDERLINES 14 Summer
1989.
- UAAC Conference, Quebec City, Session: Popular
Culture, Politics and Art History. (Chair)
Paper: "Cultural Hegemony: Popular Responses
to the Work of Henry Moore" (unpublished).
1989 International Experimental Film Congress,
Toronto
Session: Critics Sidebar Paper: "Cinematic
Subversion and the Theory of the Avant-Garde"
(unpublished).
- UAAC Annual Meeting Winnipeg University
of Manitoba Paper: Critical Studio Practise
Session: The Roles of Critical theories in
the Studio.
1990 Popular Culture Conference: Toronto.
Paper: "Even A Monkey Could Do It: The
Cartoon as Site of Class Conflict" Graphic
Satire Session.
- UAAC meeting Montreal Roundtable Co- Chair,
Graduate Study in Visual Arts in Canada.
- American Studies Association, New Orleans
"Cultural Separatism and Criticism as
Commodity in Postwar Society" (Chair
and Discussant).
1991 UAAC Annual Meeting Kingston, Ontario
Chair and presenter Studio Panel: "Reading
Works: Popular Culture and Critical Practice."
- Art History Session: Disciplinarity: Questioning
the Borderlines of Art History. paper: Thalia
Meets Melpomene: "The Voice of Fire and
Flesh Dress Controversies."
1992 American Association of Popular Culture
Louisville Kentucky. Satire and Parody Session:
Paper: Thalia Meets Melpomene: The Voice of
Fire and Flesh Dress. Controversies. (re-edited
version)
- UAAC Annual Conference, University of Victoria,
B.C.
Chair and paper presenter. Cultural Studies
and the New Art History. Paper: The Art Comics
and Cartoons of Ad Reinhardt.
1993 UAAC Annual Conference, University of
Windsor, Ontario.
Chair and Paper presenter. Cultural Studies
and the New Art History: Take 2 Paper:"Mad's
Mad Art World and the Art News of National
Lampoon".
- Harold Innis Centenary Celebration: Art
& Money paper: Ideas Without Work and
Work Without Ideas
1994 Conceptual Art: The NSCAD Connection
(Chair) UAAC Annual conference, Halifax, N.S.
- Littoral: New Zones for Critical Art Practice
Conference, Manchester/ Salford, England Chair
and paper presenter "Teaching and Operative
Art Practice".
- Roundtable Community Education Annual Meeting
of the Atlantic Antropoliogy and Sociology
Assn, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S.
1995 Keynote Address "The Art of Giving"
Chimera: New Zones for Critical Art Practice,
Goethe Institute, Sydney, Australia.
- UAAC meeting, Guelph, Ontario, Paper: "Art
History’s Significant Other: Film Studies"
1996 "Popular Modernisms and Cultural
In/Subordination" as part of the UBC
Fine Arts Department Joan Carlisle Irving
lecture series
- "Littoralist Art Practice" UAAC
Universities Art Association meeting at McGill
University, Montreal,
- "Activism and Ethical Art Practice"
as part of the University Kings College Ethics
and Aesthetics Lecture series.
1998 Films Studies Assn Meeting Queens University,
Learned Societies of Canada Annual meeting
"Art Crimes: Art, Film and Cultural In/subordination."
- Participated in the organization and chairing
of sessions, and presented a paper "Operate
Art practice and Littoral Art Practice",
Critical Sites, the Third International Littoral
Art Symposium Dun O’Laighre Dublin, Ireland
- "Three modes of Canadian Performance
in the Nineties" at Art Action, 1958-1998
an international performance symposium in
Quebec City (Galerie le Lieu and Inter publications)
2001 Keynote address Art and Spatial "Windows,
Mirrors and Doors: The Surveillance paradox
and the death of space" University of
Newcastle, Australia
- Keynote Address "What is to be Done"
Was Tun Conference, at the Depot, Kunsthalle
Vienna, Austria
- "Cats Art and buckets of Blood"
UAAC annual meeting, UQAM Montreal
2002 2 papers and session chair: "A Frenzy
of Details in Frenzy" and "The Aesthetics
and Ethics of Terror and the (Re)-presentation
of Death" Film Studies Association of
Canada , annual meeting University of Toronto
:
1978 Auckland University School of Fine Arts,
Auckland, N.Z.
- National Art Gallery, Wellington, N.Z.
1979 Sydney School of Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia
- National Art Gallery, Wellington, N.Z.
- Auckland University School of Fine Arts,
Auckland, N.Z.
1980 West End Community Centre, Vancouver,
B.C. "Art of the Seventies".
- Emily Carr College of Art and Design Art
History Dept. "Performance in the 1970's:
The Problem of the `Self'" Intermedia
Studio Visiting Artist Presentation, Vamcouver,
B.C.
- Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta "Theatre
versus Performance" (Winter/spring).
- Banff Centre Visiting artist presentation
and series of 5 public lectures on the "History
of Performance", Banff, Alta.
- Surrey Art Gallery Surrey, B.C. "Performance
Art/Playful Performance".
1981 Mount St. Vincent University Art Gallery,
Halifax, N.S. "Performance art and ...Problems".
1982 Banff Centre for the Arts Banff, Alta.
"Agit-prop, Popular Culture and Propaganda"
lecture as part of Agit- Prop International
Performance series.
- Auckland University. Presentation to the
New Zealand Society of Painters and Sculptors,
Auckland, N.Z.
- National Art Gallery, Wellington, N.Z. "Theatre
Agit-Prop, Popular Culture, and Propaganda".
- Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North,
N.Z. "Theatre/AgitProp".
1983 Mount St. Vincent University Art Gallery
Halifax, "Production, Politics and Representation".
- Fanshawe College, London, Ontario, Lecture
and Presentation of Work.
1984 St. Mary's University Art Gallery, Halifax,
N.S. Four seminars Reading Room "Corporate
Advertising and Propaganda".
1985 Auckland University Art History Department,
Auckland, N.Z.
1986 University of Western Ontario, Fine Arts
Dept. London, Ontario
1987 University of Auckland Art History Dept.
and School of Fine Arts Sculpture and Intermedia
Dept.
Series of six lectures on Issues in Contemporary
Art, Popular Culture Communications, Art History
and Art Criticism (Winter), Auckland, N.Z.
- Visiting Artist Presentation, Studio and
graduate teaching, Auckland, N.Z.
1988 University of Saskatchewan, Fine Arts
Department Saskatoon Lecture, "High Art/PopCult"
and Visiting Artist Presentations, Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan.
1989 University of Western Ontario MacIntosh
Art Gallery Fanshawe College Graduation Address
- York University, Humanities/Art History
Dept (visiting lecturer), Toronto, Ontario.
- University of Western Ontario Visual Arts
dept. Visiting artist/teacher
1990 Performance Au Canada SAW Gallery Symposium
Ottawa, Ontario.
- Panel, Contemporary Art and the State of
Art Criticism
- Lecture, "Popular Culture versus High
Art"
- Dalhousie University, English Department
Public Lecture, Halifax, N.S.
"Walt Disney's Critique of Kinetic Performance
and Body Art".
1991 Owens Sound Centre for Contemporary Art,
University of Western Ontario Extensions Programme.
Critics Series Workshop Facilitator Tom Thompson
Centre. Owens Sound, Ontario.
1992 Dalhousie University Art Gallery Opening
Remarks to the ICI New York Travelling Exhibition
No Laughing Matter. "On The Politics
of Humour. A Position To the Exhibition",
Halifax, N.S.
- Dalhousie University Art Gallery No Laughing
Matter Panel, Halifax, N.S.
- Opening Remarks "Night Shift"
NSCAD Con Ed Exhibition Anna Leonowens Gallery,
Halifax, N.S.
- Visual Arts Dept. University of Victoria
Art History Lecture and Studio Work presentation,
Victoria, B.C.
1995 Toronto School of Art Public Lecture
Series, Toronto, Ontario.
1996 "New Zones For Critical Art Practice"
(First International Littoral Art Symposium,
Manchester/Salford, England
1996 "Chimera" 2nd International
Littoral Symposium , Goethe Institute, Sydney
Australia
1997 "Action / Cognition" presentations(with
Kil-Young Yoo), Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax,
NS
Struts Art gallery, Sackville New Brunswick
Critical Sites Third International Littoral
Symposium (session organiser)
1998 To Students of Auckland University School
of Fine Arts and Auckland Technical University,
Auckland City Art Gallery
2001 York University Department of Visual
Arts
McDougal Art Gallery, Christchcuch, New Zealand
Symposium Presentation.
1974 Pavillion K Environmental and Performance
Works Epsom Exposition grounds, Auckland N.Z.
With Jim Allen.
1983 Appropriation/Expropriation Exhibition
Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery,
Halifax, N.S.
Co-curated with Mary Sparling and Jan Peacock.
1984-5 Halifax/Auckland Exchange Exhibition
with David Craig Eyelevel Gallery and the
Centre for Art Tapes Halifax, N.S., October
1985.
1987 A Decade of Video at NSCAD, Centre for
Art Tapes (Co- curated with Bruce Campbell
and Jan Peacock), Halifax, N.S.
1988 Two Countries/Two Cities Halifax/Lublin
Exchange Centre for Art Tapes and Eyelevel
Gallery (Co-curated with Bruce Campbell, Jim
McSwain and Ingrid Koenig
1994 Conceptual Art: the NSCAD Connection
1967-1973 Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax,
N.S. [Catalogue, 2001]
1971 Three Situations discussion (with Maree
Horner and David Brown) 1ZB Auckland Arts
Program with Hamish Keith, Auckland, N.Z.
1980 Performance and Multi-disciplinarity
CBC Radio Montreal, Quebec.
- Performance Interview with Russell Keziere
CBC Vancouver Arts Review Program, Vancouver,
B.C.
1982 Radio New Zealand Sharon Crosby Morning
Program On Popular Culture, Advertising and
Propaganda, Auckland, N.Z.
- Radio N.Z. Sharon Crosby Morning Program
Agit-prop continued, Auckland, N.Z.
- 1ZY Palmerston North Review Interview, N.Z.
1986 Turbulence Radio, Radio Western University
of Western Ontario with Tony McAulay, Tornto,
Ontario.
1988 Canadian Audio Art Rundfunk O.R.F. Austrian
Radio Audio Arts Program Vienna, Austria.
1990 Barber interviews Dan Lander CKDU March,
Halifax, N.S.
Interscop, Polish Radio Warsaw Cultural Affairs
Program, Warsaw
1994 Interview Conceptual Art Exhibit with
Marcia Connolly CKDU, Halifax, N.S.
1995 Chimera Symposium, Sydney, Australia.
1973 ALTERNATIVE CINEMA Magazine, Auckland,
New Zealand.
1982-3 Special issue OPEN LETTER 5th series
no's 5&6 1983 Essays on [Performance]
and Cultural Politicisation.
1984-92 East Coast Contributing editor for
FUSE magazine Toronto, Ontario.
1988-9 Contributing editor East Coast to Performance
au/in Canada (Eds) Martel, R., Richard-Martin,
A., Robertson,C., Bull, H. Le Lieu Publications.
Quebec 1991.
1994-8 Editorial Board member INKS Cartoon
and Comic Art Studies, Ohio State University,
Ohio.
1998- Editorial Board Member The Dalhousie
Review, Halifax, N.S.
2001- Editorial Board Member, Topia: The Canadian
Journal of Cultural Studies, Toronto, Ontario
:
(selected)
Reviews, Essays and Interviews:
1971 Green, A. Bledisloe Place ARTS AND COMMUNITY
7:6.
- Keith, H. Art News and Reviews AUCKLAND
STAR March 15th.
1972 Daly-Peoples, J. Elam Exhibit CRACCUM
September 16th.
- Keith, H. Art News and Reviews Osbourne
Gallery Exhibit AUCKLAND STAR November 25th
-James, B.
- Stage and Studio NEW PLYMOUTH DAILY NEWS
May 27th.
- Keith, H. Art News and Reviews AUCKLAND
STAR August 26th.
1973 Dunn, M. Present Performance ISLANDS
2:4 Auckland, N.Z.
1974 Chapple, G. People as Sculpture N.Z.
LISTENER.
1975 Maidment, I. 12 New Zealand Artists ART
AND AUSTRALIA October/December 1975.
- Paga, J. Dance in New Dimensions AUCKLAND
STAR May 7th.
- Thomas, D. Sculpture in the Streets SYDNEY
MORNING HERALD Australia, June.
1976 Curnow, W. Project Programmes AUCKLAND
CITY ART GALLERY QUARTERLY Nov /December.
1977 Brunton, A. The Lush Tape SPLEEN Vol
2 62-3.
- Sheridon, N. (ed) The Experimental Arts
Foundation Program Adelaide, Australia.
- Green, A. Aspects of New Zealand Sculpture
EDUCATION 26:8.
- Curnow, W. Aspects of New Zealand Sculpture
EDUCATION 26:10.
1977 Green, A. Aspects of New Zealand Sculpture
EDUCATION 27:1.
1980 Nauls, D. Sydney Biennale Report: Art
Across the Tasman ACTION 12.
- Interview: Nauls/Barber ACTION 12.
- Curnow, W. The Sydney Biennale ART NEW ZEALAND
13.
- Performance News and Reviews: UMBRELLA Glendale,
California.
- Friedman, K. Performance Book Reviews LIVE
No 3 N.Y.C.
- Doyle, J. Warehouse 222 PARACHUTE 20 Autumn,
Montreal, Quebec.
1981 Anderson, A. Function VANGUARD February
1981 Vancouver, B.C.
- Frenkel, V. Discontinuous Notes ARTS CANADA
280-81 March April.
1982 Wilde, V. Gary Conway, Bruce Barber PARACHUTE
27 Summer.
- Monk,P. Agit-Prop PARACHUTE 28 Oct/November.
- Tousley, N. Agit Prop at Banff/ Visual Arts
CALGARY HERALD July 15.
- Barton, W. A Sociological Exercise EVENING
STANDARD Sept 1st Palmerston North, N.Z.
1982 Tousley, N. Notes on Agit-Prop at Banff
ARTS CANADA November.
1983 Horne, S. Expropriation/Appropriation
VANGUARD 12:5&6.
1984 Eyland, C. N.S. Audio Festival ARTS ATLANTIC.
- Burns, S. The Soft Prop of Bruce Barber
VANGUARD Vol 13:8 October.
- Townsend-Gault, C. Performance as Resistance
VANGUARD 13:8.
Letter (Barber) and reply (Burns) VANGUARD
13:10.
1984 Curnow, W. Vital Speeches SPLASH Vol
1:2 December Auckland, N.Z.
- Interviews Curnow/Barber SPLASH 1:2.
- Koenig, I. A Call for a Change: Performance
as Resistance FUSE 8:4.
1985 Lippard, L. ADgit VILLAGE VOICE Janurary
29th N.Y.C.
- Stark, F. The Art of Keeping In Touch: Wystan
Curnow N.Z. LISTENER April 27th Wellington,
N.Z.
- Bell, L. New York Notables N.Z. LISTENER
April 13th.
- Indiana,G. Memories Are Made of This VILLAGE
VOICE December 17th.
1986 Kuspit, D. New York Reviews ARTFORUM
April/May.
- Hueston, H. VANS 10th Anniversary Exhibit
Review Downstairs at the Cohn DALHOUSIE GAZETTE
119:14 Jan 8th, Halifax, N.S.
- Laurie, D. New York reviews Memory Exhibition
ARTS January.
1987 Cartwright, G. Restructuring History
N.Z. LISTENER November.
- Curnow, W. Reading Room II ART MONTHLY Australian
and International Sept.
- Pitts, P. Reading Room II ART NEW ZEALAND
November/December.
1989 Bean, R., Sady, M., The Halifax/Lublin
Exchange VANGUARD February/March.
- Townsend-Gault, C. 80/20 NSCAD Centenial
Exhibition. VANGUARD February/ March
- Townsend-Gault, C. Some Contemporary Art
in Nova Scotia and the Weldon Tradition HEARSAY
Vol 14
No 1 Fall 1989
1990 Lucznica Cultural Centre, Poland Art
magazine 1/90.
1999 Laura Robinson "Art by Any Means
Necessary?" Globe and Mail Arts Argument
Sept 20 1999
Cvetnic, S. "Bruce Barber: stavni i vitualni
squat" Konturas No61/62 N/32 Zagreb 1999
2000 Green, T. New New Zealand New Art in
Intervention Robert McDougall Art Gallery
- Barton, T. New Zealand Art in the 1970’s
Artspace publication, Auckland New Zealand
- Hay, J "Trans Marginal: New Zealand
Performance Art 1970-1975" in Intervention:
Post Object and performance Art in New Zealand
in 1970 and Beyond Robert Macdougall Art Gallery,
Christchurch, N.Z
Green, T. "New New Zealand New Art"
in Intervention: Post Object and Performance
Art in New Zealandin 1970 and Beyond
:
(selected)
Allen, W.R.,and Curnow, W. New Art: Some New
Sculpture and Post-Object Art Auckland, Sydney
Heinemann 1976.
10th Biennale de Paris Musee des Beaux Arts
Catalogue 1977.
3rd Sydney Biennale Sydney, Australia Art
Gallery of New South Wales 1979.
Keziere, R., Balkind, James, Townsend-Gault
et al (eds) Visions: Canadian Art Essay by
Townsend-Gault, C.1983.
Portley, Symonds and Philips (eds) The Visual
Arts Jaccaranda Press, Australia. 1981.
Olander, W.(ed) The Art of Memory/The Loss
of History Catalogue, The New Museum, New
York Essays by Olander, W., Deithcher, D.,
Solomon-Godeau, A. 1985.
Stacy, R., and Wylie, L. 80/20 100 Years of
the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia catalogue.
Martel, R et al (eds) 4th International Immedia
Concerto INTER No 42 Quebec, P.Q. 1989.
Durand,G., Martel, R. et al Immedia Concerto
Performances Installations Arts Media Inter
Editeur Quebec 1990.
Durand G., Martel, R. Interscop Pologne 1990
Quebec 1990.
Lippard, L, Olbranz, J. (eds) A Different
War: Vietnam in Art Whatcom Museum Bellngham,
Wash. 1989 San Francisco Real Comet Press
1990
Cheetham, M., (foreward, Hutcheon, L. Remembering
Postmodernism Oxford University Press Canada
1991.
Cheetham, M., Hutcheon, L. Remembering Postmodernism
(French Translation) 1992.
Hutcheon L, Splitting Images Oxford University
Press 1991.
Martel, R et al (eds) Maneouvres 1990-1991,
INTER Quebec 1992.
Barr, M. Headlands: Thinking Through New Zealand
Art Exhibition Catalogue Museum of Contemporary
Art, Sydney, Australia, Curated by Robert
Leonard, Bernice Murphy with essays by Priscilla
Pitts, Christina Barton, Tony Green et al.
1992.
Yoo, Kil-Young, Inferno: Surveyed Toronto
Photographers Workshop Gallery, 1995, Catalogue.
Martel, R. L’Art en ACTES Le Lieu Centre
en art actuel 1982-1997 Inter Editeur Quebec
P.Q 1998
Hays J. et al. (eds) Intervention: Post-Object
Art in New Zealand 1970 and Beyond. Robert
McDougall Art Gallery. Christchurch, New Zealand.
Summer, 2000
