Traffic Talks: Conceptualism and its Discontents

Artists Suzy Lake and Gordon Lebredt, and Bill Kirby, Director of the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art, discuss the legacies of conceptual art with UTAC Curator, Matt Brower. What can we make of conceptual art now? What happened to the utopian promise of conceptualism? How can we engage with the documents and traces of conceptual art today? Are conceptualism’s critical energies still accessible to contemporary viewers or have its traces become historical objects and commodities?