Bruce Barber
Bruce Barber (born in New Zealand in 1950) is an artist, writer, curator, and educator based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he teaches at NSCAD University. He is best known for his early performance work, his Reading Rooms, Squat Projects and his writing and theory on Littoral Art. The video work shown on CIRCUIT includes performance documentation, reading room projects and Trace (time lapse) projects. His artwork has been shown at the Paris Biennale, the Sydney Biennial, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Walter Phillips Gallery, London Regional Gallery, and Artspace NZ in Auckland. Barber is the editor of Essays on Performance and Cultural Politicization and of Conceptual Art: the NSCAD Connection 1967–1973. He is co-editor, with Serge Guilbaut and John O'Brian of Voices of Fire: Art Rage, Power, and the State. His critical essays have appeared in numerous anthologies, journals and magazines. His art practice is documented in the publication Reading Rooms.
CIRCUIT Resources
Interview with Mark Williams (2020)
Selected Exhbitions
2018
Assholes, Eidia House, Brooklyn, USA
2017
Party without Party, International Sokolovsko Festival of Ephemeral Art, Poland
Bruce Barber: I swear, Te Tuhi, Auckland
2016
Personal Structures: Open Borders, Venice Biennale, Italy
Taste the Future, RIMONIM ARt Gallery, Miami, USA
Task Action, The Dowse Art Museum, Wellington
2015
Imaginary Audience Scale, ARTSPACE, Auckland
Bruce Barber: Performance Scores, Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi, Wellington
2013
New to the Collection, The Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi, Wellington
Continental Drift, Conceptual Art in Canada: The 1960s and 70s, Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe, Germany
2011
Weak Force, Unified Field Theory, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Canada
2010
Swallow it Dog, Sydney Biennale Australia
2008
Bruce Barber: Reading and Writing Rooms, Te Tuhi, Auckland
Interactions Art 10th International Performance Art Festival Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland
2006
Mostly Harmless: a Performance Series, Govett Brewster, New Plymouth
Party without Party, RM Gallery, Auckland
1989
N.S Artist Against Militarism, Anna Leowens gallery, Halifax, Canada
A Different War: Vietnam in Art, Washington, Ohio, Boston & Californa, USA