Beginning with the seventies
By: editing: Lorna Brown, Greg Gibson, Jana Tyner
Contributors: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
Publisher: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery; Information Office
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Vancouver, BC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9781988860084
Subjects: Art and society; Exhibitions; Social movements in art; Canadian Art; Modern Art; Art et société; Expositions; Mouvements sociaux dans l'art; Art canadien; Art
Description: "The publication "Beginning with the Seventies" binds together four exhibitions (GLUT, Radial Change, Collective Acts, Hexsa'a̲m: To be here always) held at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery between 2018-2019. Part art exhibition, part research project, the book investigates the 1970s, an era when social movements of all kinds--feminism, environmentalism, LGBTQ rights, Indigenous rights, access to health services and housing--began to coalesce into models of self-organization that overlapped with the production of art and culture. Noting the resurgence of art practice involved with social activism and an increasing interest in the 1970s from younger producers, the Belkin connected with diverse archives and activist networks to bring forward these histories, to commission new works of art and writing and to provide a space for discussion and debate. Categorized by exhibition, each section of "Beginning with the Seventies" takes a different approach to the theme, curating together over 70 artists and writers."--
Notes: Catalogue of four exhibitions (GLUT, Radial Change, Collective Acts, Hexsa'a̲m: To be here always) held at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery between 2018-2019.

Includes works by: Siku Allooloo, Eleanor Antin, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Alexandra Bischoff, Anthea Black and Shamina Chherawala, Dana Claxton, Allyson Clay, Jo Cook and the Vancouver Women's Bookstore, Judith Copithorne, Kate Craig, Darryll Dawson Jr., Michael de Courcy, Christine D'Onofrio, Gathie Falk, Martha Fleming and Lyne Lapointe, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Helen Goodwin, Jamelie Hassan, Colleen Heslin, Carole Itter, Corita Kent, Alison Knowles, Germaine Koh, Ladies' Invitational Deadbeat Society (LIDS) with Anthea Black, Nicole Burisch and Wednesday Lupypciw, Laiwan, Jaymyn La Vallee, Sara Leydon, Adeline Lorenzetto, Walter Marchetti, Kelly Mark, Divya Mehra, Marianne Nicolson, Mary Peters, Adrian Piper, Kristina Lee Podesva, Anne Ramsden, ReMatriate Collective, Diane Roberts, Lisa Robertson, Rosa María Robles, Rhoda Rosenfeld, Evelyn Roth, Salish Weavers Guild, Carolee Schneemann, Kathy Slade, Evann Siebens, Sara Siestreem, Heather Kai Smith, Juliana Speier, Anabel Stewart, Atsuko Tanaka, Nabidu Taylor, Althea Thauberger, Kamala Todd, William Wasden Jr., Joyce Wieland, Tania Willard, Lindsey Mae Willie, Cornelia Wyngaarden, Jin-me Yoon, Elizabeth Zvonar.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Lorna Brown; title: GLUT.; title: GLUT: Beginning with language / Lorna Brown; title: Reader response: "Not reading" and reading nearby / Bopha Chhay; title: Reader response: I was asked to be here / Brenna Bezanson; title: Reader response: Black body, white room / Cicely Belle Blain; title: The finger's ingress / Kimberly Phillips; title: Reader response: Rereading room: Back to that seventies bookstore and beyond / Jeannine Mitchell; title: Reader response: Gallery naps / Julia Aoki; title: Spirit as word / Dian Million; title: 5 poems / Dian Million; title: Reader response: Recite yourself to all who will listen / Kay Higgins; title: Reader response: Almost a neighbour / Michelle Fu; title: Reader response: Question mark re-pose / Tiziana La Melia; title: Reader response: Slouching in the reading room / Steffanie Ling; title: Reader response: Being Schrödinger's Cat / Cornelia Wyngaarden; title: Reader response [insert] / Beverly Ho; title: Readere response [insert] / Kathy Slade; title: Radial Change.; title: Radial Change: Move to re-centre / Lorna Brown; title: Archival gestures, or, The afterlives of performance in the work of Helen Goodwin, Evann Siebens and Justine A. Chambers / Peter Dickinson; title: Re-enactments / Justine A. Chambers; title: Helen Goodwin and Intermedia: Toward live art in Vancouver / Kaija Pepper; title: Helen Goodwin timeline / Anna Tidlund; title: Collective Acts.; title: Collective Acts: Degrees of attachment / Lorna Brown; title: The Salish Weavers Guild / Jordan Wilson; title: Reciprocities / Gabrielle Hill/Lorna Brown; title: Sounding the margins: Origin stories / Candice Hopkins; title: Muckamuck strike action / Ethel Gardner; title: Hexsa'a̲m.; title: Hexsa'a̲m: Short wave, long wave / Lorna Brown; title: A braided river: Ecofeminist currents in Radial Change, Collective Acts and Hexsa'a̲m / Laurie White; title: Testimony / Midori Nicolson; title: Witnessing pedagogy / Shelly Rosenblum.