Dear Friends,
The Adam Art Gallery in association with The New Zealand Film Archive
is proud to present a talk by conceptual artist, writer and curator
Bruce Barber.
Barber advocates for the artist to be a critical agent in social
life. His practice is based on exchange and the act of giving, and
privileges the agency of these gestures as alternative means for
societal integration rather than transactions based on money and
power. He describes his work as ‘communicative actions’. These are
direct actions or interventions that test the idea of art as an act
of communication and explore the capacity of speech to be a
performance that, rather than offering an explanation or
interpretation, leads to another order of understanding that more
directly engages with the issue at hand, whether this be a concern
with the environment, a particular political situation, or the use of
language itself.
His talk at the New Zealand Film Archive will focus on his practice
of ‘communicative action’, contextualised by a screening of video
documentation of his performance works.
Bruce Barber is an internationally known artist, writer and curator
and is Professor of Media Art, Historical and Critical Studies at the
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. His interdisciplinary studio
work has been included in the Paris Biennale (1977), the Sydney
Biennale (1979) and such exhibitions as The Art of Memory: The Loss
of History (New Museum, New York, 1985) and A Different War: Vietnam
in Art (1989-92), Memory Works (London Regional Gallery 1990-2);
Action Replay Artspace, Auckland (1998). Barber is the author of
Popular Modernisms: Art, Cartoons, Comics and Cultural In/
Subordination (forthcoming), editor of Essays on [Performance] and
Cultural Politicisation (1983) and co-editor with Serge Guilbaut and
John O'Brian of Voices of Fire: Art Rage, Power, and the State
(Toronto, 1996). His critical essays have appeared in numerous
anthologies, journals and magazines.
Artist as critical agent: A talk by Bruce Barber
Thursday 11 September, 7pm, KOHA
New Zealand Film Archive mediatheatre
84 Taranaki Street
Wellington
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