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Bruce Barber
Professor Emeritus Bruce A. Barber, Ph.D., is an interdisciplinary artist, cultural historian and curator who taught courses in expanded media, art history and contemporary studies for 30+ years at NSCAD University, Halifax, Canada. His continuing art practice has been exhibited internationally and is documented in the publications Reading Rooms and Bruce Barber Work 1970–2008. He is author of Performance [Performance] and Performers: Essays and Conversations (two volumes) (2008), Trans/Actions: Art, Film and Death (2009), Littoral Art and
Communicative Action (2013) and Popular Modernisms: Art, Cartoons, Comics and Cultural In/Subordination (2023). He is the editor of Essays on Performance and Cultural Politicization and of Conceptual Art: the NSCAD Connection 1967–1973; Conde + Beveridge: Class Works and co-editor, with Serge Guilbaut and John O’Brian of Voices of Fire: Art Rage, Power and the State. www.brucebarber.ca.