“The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and the grunt gallery, Vancouver invite you to visit the online project, Ruins in Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties.

Since its launch in June 2009, this resource and digital archive incorporates hundreds of photographs, press clippings, audio recordings and film clips. The project has been enthusiastically embraced by libraries, directories, blogs and listings worldwide. Drawn from private collections and archives as well as public sources, Ruins in Process brings together the research of many artists, curators and writers in an exploration of the diverse artistic practices of Vancouver art in the 1960s and early 1970s. Collaborative methods, interdisciplinary activity and an interest in emerging technologies are revealed in the selections of the contributors to this educational resource.

The website has a fully searchable digital collection, video interviews with artists Ingrid Baxter, Christos Dikeakos, Carole Itter and Gary Lee-Nova, as well as a number of essays that contextualize the work in the archive. Five project sites document in detail the work of specific artists and collectives and explore the relationships between artistic media during this dynamic period in Vancouver.” — Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery