Clive Robertson

Résumé du livre

"Clive Robertson is a media artist, cultural critic and publisher whose latest book, Policy Matters - Administrations of Art Culture was published by YYZ Books (Toronto) in 2006. He is the co-editor, with Alain-Martin Richard, of Performance art in/au Canada 1970-1990. Robertson began his own interdisciplinary art and curatorial practices in Cardiff (Wales) in 1969. After emigrating to Calgary in 1971, he was a founding director of the performance-publishing collective, W.O.R.K.S. (with Paul Woodrow); Voicespondence, an audio production and publishing co-operative; the Parachute Center for Cultural Affairs (with Don Mabie, Paul Woodrow and Marcella Bienvenue) and Arton's Video Publishing. Robertson was also a member of the Independent Artists Union, and a National Spokesperson for ANNPAC/RACA. He currently teaches contemporary art history, cultural policy and performance studies at Queen's University in Kingston, ON."--Excerpt from exhibition at The New Gallery (TNG) in January - February 2011.