Beginning with the Seventies

2020


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The publication Beginning with the Seventies binds together four exhibitions—GLUT, Radial Change, Collective Acts, and Hexsa'a̲m: To be here always—held at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery throughout 2018 and 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.

Including work by artists 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, and Elizabeth Zvonar, with writing by Julia Aoki, Cicely Belle Blain, Brenna Bezanson, Lorna Brown, Justine A. Chambers, Bopha Chhay, Peter Dickinson, Michelle Fu, Ethel Gardner, Kay Higgins, Gabrielle Hill, Beverly Ho, Candice Hopkins, Tiziana La Melia, Steffanie Ling, Dian Million, Jeannine Mitchell, Midori Nicolson, Kaija Pepper, Kimberly Phillips, Shelly Rosenblum, Kathy Slade, Anna Tidlund, Laurie White, Jordan Wilson, and Cornelia Wyngaarden.

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Identifier

L0291

Call Number

N6545.6 B44 2020

Extent

285 pages : illustrations ; hardcover 30 cm + 2 inserts

Language

English

ISBN

9781988860084

Place of Publication

Vancouver, BC

Publication Type

Print