The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design "Projects Classes" were initiated by David Askevold. Askevold commissioned New York based conceptual artists to send written instructions for works in which the students would collaborate.
In the Fall of 1969, Robert Barry proposed that the students get together and "decide on a single common idea. The idea can be of any nature, simple or complex..." Sol LeWitt presented a "to do" list for the class which included: "1. A work that uses the idea of error 2. A work that uses the idea of incompleteness 3. A work that uses the idea of infinity...." Robert Smithson suggested a work that would involve mud being dumped over a cliff. Lawrence Weiner asked students to "remove" some unspecified thing "Halfway Between the Equator and the North Pole."
Posted by delpesco at March 11, 2006 10:41 AM