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Eye (Level) Chart: twenty years of programming at Eye Level Gallery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Peter Dykhuis
Peter Dykhuis*
Affiliation:
Anna Lonowens Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, S163 Duke Street, Halifax, NS B3J 3J6, Canada
*
peterd@nscad.ns.ca
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Abstract

An exhibition entitled Eye (Level) Chart reviewed the twenty year history of Eye Level Gallery, an artist-run centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The temporal history of the Gallery was presented as a chronological gallery display of exhibition announcements, posters and graphic ephemera. More than a mere summary of exhibitions, significant social and cultural information was revealed through the charting of promotional materials that were astutely archived over a twenty-year period.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , 2002, pp. 8 - 10
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2002

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1. For the past ten years the author has been affiliated with the Anna Leonowens Gallery, the exhibition space of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Based on the success of Eye (Level) Chart, he is planning on producing a similar exhibition in the near future that timelines the promotional material of almost 30 years of programming by visitors to the College and by Faculty, as well as the thousands of student exhibitions. As with the Eye Level project, he anticipates a rich survey of graphic information that will yield insights into the visual, emotional, social, political and economic profile of vibrant gallery programming.

2. A term used in recent US theoretical writing, to describe something broader than performance and distinguishable from performance art in that it is art that is performed, but not necessarily in front of an audience, e.g. recorded on video or evidenced by its remains, etc.