Earlier this month, the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery and Grunt Gallery, both in Vancouver, launched a new website devoted to documenting, analyzing and critiquing art production in the city in the 1960s. “Ruins in Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties” includes essays, interviews and project sites that delve into the work of N.E. Thing Co., Glenn Lewis, Gathie Falk and the Intermedia society (among many others).
Lucy Lippard and Ilya Pegonis watch Robert Smithson’s Glue Pouron the UBC Endowment Lands, Vancouver, 1970. Photo: Christos Dikeakos
Named after a famous line from Robert Smithson’s 1967 photo-essay “The Monuments of Passaic” where the artist wrote that his hometown “seemed to contain ruins in reverse,” the website continues to draw connections between Vancouver’s local art production and international developments in conceptual and post-conceptual art practices. It also provides a rare glimpse into the Belkin’s extensive archives of art production from this period and promises to be an excellent research resource.
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