The Fourth Floor Gallery Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada December, 1971 – August, 1972 North Gallery, Works by Graham Dube, Robin Peck, Richards Jarden, Ian Murray, Gerald Ferguson, Garry Neil Kennedy, January, 1972 The Fourth Floor Gallery Executive Director & Curator: Ian Murray Exhibition Manager: Cyne Cobb Guest Curators: David Askevold, Cyne Cobb, Gerald Ferguson, Dan Graham, David Sewell, Doug Waterman The Fourth Floor Gallery was founded by Ian Murray in September 1971 with assistance from Cyne Cobb, and S. Wayne Stark. It opened to the public in December of 1971 and closed in August of 1972. Located at 1875 Granville Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, The Fourth Floor Gallery was comprised of a room 35’ x 50’, a room of 35’ x 75’ but on occasion two rooms of the same size in the studios of Ian Murray on the third floor of the same building were also used as were the stairways and entrances. Ceilings were 14’ or more in most places. It is hard to not consider the importance to The Fourth Floor Gallery of its collaboration with the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Murray was a student and Assistant in the Visiting Artist Program from 1971-1972, a role Cyne Cobb performed in 1972 – 1973. Many faculty and students exhibited in the Gallery or were lenders to exhibitions and many presentations were made possible through collaboration with NSCAD. The absence of any competing art scene in Halifax, the spirit of the Eternal Network described by Robert Filliou and George Brecht, mail art, the portability of conceptual art and the burgeoning development of publication and mass media based art were all elements of the Gallery’s development. At the same time artist run galleries and projects like A Space, Art Metropole, The Parachute Centre, The Western Front were in development across Canada and all of the players were in contact with each other. In addition to exhibitions in the galleries, The Fourth Floor Gallery presented works on the streets of Halifax, vending machines in workplaces and the Halifax-Dartmouth Ferry; postal, cable and telegraph projects; television works through the Halifax, Dartmouth and Sackville community cable television stations; radio art works on CKDU FM Radio and shortwave; performances and lectures at The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and at the Dalhousie University Student Union Building. The National Film Board Theatre hosted some film programs. School tours and educational activities in the gallery included a number of lectures and classes for Dalhousie University, The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, The Nova Scotia Technical College, St. Mary’s University, St. Patrick’s High School and Queen Elizabeth High School. The gallery closed when the building was purchased as part of the development of Historic Properties on the Halifax Waterfront and is now part of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University campus. The exhibitions and performances planned for the gallery after July of 1972 were moved to the Anna Leonowens and Mezzanine Galleries of the Nova Scotia College of Art where Murray became a Curator from August of 1972 – May, 1973. Most of the files and photo documentation was deposited in the Anna Leonowens Gallery at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1973. The Fourth Floor Gallery exhibited, presented performances by or broadcast works by the following artists: Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Eric Andersen, Carl Andre, Giovanni Anselmo, Eleanor Antin, Ida Applebroog, Arakawara, Diane Arbus, Keith Arnatt, Art & Language, Robert Ashley, David Askevold, Michael Asher, Terry Atkinson, AYO, John Baldassari, Michael Baldwin, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, Iain Baxter, John Jack Baylin, Benard & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Karl Beveridge, Mel Bochner, Daniel Buren, Ian Burn, Stan Brackage, Wallace Brannen, Ian Breakwell, George Brecht, Stanley Brouwn, Chris Burden, Victor Burgin, Daniel Buren, James Lee Byars, John Cage, Larry Clark, Cyne Cobb, Philip Corner, Robert Cumming, Greg Curnoe, Hanne Darboven, Tom Dean, Maya Deran, Gregg Devereaux, Jan Dibbits, Juan Downey, Marcel Duchamp, Graham Dube, Marcel Duchamp, Marty Dunn, Barbara England, Family Dog, Gerald Ferguson, Robert Filliou, Henry Flynt, Ian Hamilton Findlay, Herve Fischer, Fred Forest, Simone Forti, Terry Fox, Robert Frank, Hamish Fulton, Ken Friedman, William Gellard, Gilbert & George, Dennis Gill, John Giorno, Phillip Glass, Michael Goldberg, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Al Hansen, Charles Harrison, Michael Heizer, Geoff Hendricks, Doug Heubler, Jim Hewett Band, Dick Higgins, Gary Hill, Nancy Holt, Rebbeca Horn, Robert Horovitz, Nelson Howe, Image Bank, Rick James, Richards Jarden, Ray Johnson, Joan Jonas, Donald Judd, Stephen Kaltenbach, On Kawara, Pat Kelly, Garry Neil Kennedy, Roy Kiyooka, Yves Klein, Harald Klingelholler, John Knight, Alison Knowles, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, Sharon Kulik, Suzy Lake, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Les Levine, Sol LeWitt, Ardele Lister, Roy Litchenstein, Richard Long, Lee Lozano, Arthur Lippset, Alvin Lucier, George Maciunas, Allan Mackay, Jackson MacLow, Albert MacNamara, Brian Lee MacNevin, Gary Marcuse, Walter de Maria, Tom Marioni, Mario Mertz, Mike Metz, Karl Miller, Larry Miller, Donald Monroe, Robert Moog, Michael Morris, Robert Morris, Ian Murray, N. E. Thing Company, Bruce Nauman, Garry Lee Nova, Hermann Nitsch, Marcel Odenbach, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Guilio Paolini, Robin Peck, Phillip Pilkington, Adrain Piper, Richard Prince, Pulsa Group, Arnulf Rainer, Mel Ramsden, Robert Rauchenberg, Man Ray, Gerhardt Richter, Steve Reich, Ellison Robertson, Ulriche Rosenbach, Martha Rosler, Dieter Rot, Bill Ruffer, Ed Ruscha, David Rushton, Carolee Schneemann, Richard Serra, David Sewell, Seth Sieglaub, Dave “Jimmy Mack” Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, SOMA Group, Alan Sondheim, Daniel Spoerri, Klaus Staeck, S. Wayne Stark, Petr Stembra, Joan Swartz, Ben Vautier, Bill Vazan, Benar Venet, Bill Viola, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Andy Warhol, Doug Waterman, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, Konrad Wendt, Robert Whitman, Emmett Williams, Stephen Willats, Bruce Wilson, Ian Wilson, Robert Wilson, Martha Wilson, Jon Young, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Tim Zuck. Many other artists included in publication exhibitions and daily audio presentation are not recorded in the currently available documentation of The Fourth Floor Gallery. Over 300 artists not listed took part in the Halifax International 8 & Super 8MM Film Festival at the National Film Board Theatre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, April - September, 1972 Much of the access to the work of artists in other countries was due to the then recent proliferation of printed multiples, ephemeral and mail works, the variety of visitors bringing works to Halifax through the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and the easy shipment of audio and video works at the time. Many works exhibited were from local collections. Exhibitions & Broadcasts by The Fourth Floor Gallery December 1, 1971 – August 1, 1972 -Ian Murray, Afternoon Performances, Fourth Floor Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, December 1, 1971 -Evening Performances, works by Jim Hewitt Band, Ian Murray and Bruce Wilson, Fourth curated by Ian Murray, Floor Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, December 1, 1971 - Graham Dube - Recent Works, curated by Ian Murray and Cyne Cobb, Fourth Floor Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, December 1 - 15, 1971 -Book and Publication Art, curated by Ian Murray and Doug Waterman, included works by Acconci, Anselmo, Atkinson, Antin, Arnatt, Art & Language, Ashley, Askevold, Baldassari, Barthelme, Ben, Beckley, Beuys, Bochner, Brannen, Burn, Byars, de Maria, Dibbits, Ferguson, Fischer, Fox, Fried, Gilbert & George, Graham, Heizer, Heubler, Howe, Jarden, Kosuth, Kawara, Kaltenbach, Kennedy, Kozlov, Latham, Levine, Le Va, Le Witt, Lozano, Lucier, Metz, Murray, Morris, Nauman, Oppenheim, Paolini, Pilkington, Ramsden, Rot, Ruscha, Ruston, Snow, Sondheim, Smithson, Wegman, Weiner and Young, Fourth Floor Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, December 1 - 15, 1971 -Ian Murray, Photographs In A Row, Fourth Floor Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, December 1 - 15, 1971 -Audio Works, included works by Askevold, Duchamp, Lucier, Murray, Nauman and Waterman, curated by Ian Murray, Fourth Floor Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, December 15-31, 1971 -Ian Murray, Record Covers, Fourth Floor Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, December 15-31, 1971 -Lectures, Publication Art, by David Askevold and Ian Murray, Fourth Floor Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, January, 1972 -Television Works, curated by Ian Murray, Fourth Floor Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, January 2 - March 18, 1972 -Television Doesn’t Work, curated by Ian Murray, Fourth Floor Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, January 2 - March 18, 1972 -Ian Murray, Window and Door, Fourth Floor Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, January 2 - March 18, 1972 -BRANNEN DUBE FERGUSON GILL JARDEN KELLY KENNEDY KULIK MURRAY PECK ROBERTSON RUFFER SEWELL STARK WATERMEN YOUNG, Curated by Ian Murray, Fourth Floor Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, January 2 - 12, 1972 -Book Works, curated by Ian Murray, Fourth Floor Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, January 2 - 12, 1972 -New Pieces, offset lithograph by Dan Graham, published by The Fourth Floor Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, January 12, 1972 -Dan Graham - PERFORMANCE: NEW PIECES, curated by Ian Murray, Fourth Floor Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, January 17, 1972 -Dan Graham - Retrospective of The