February 18, 2009: What was NSCAD?NSCAD
Reading Marc Augé’s Non-Sites has been great in that it has made me reflect on what I believe were the qualities that made the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design a place. What was NSCAD?
I have written earlier that I was there ‘back in the day’, but what does that mean? NSCAD back in the day was mythic. It was a place, but it was also an idea- that you could create an art school in a small town in a province on the east coast of Canada than could have an impact on the world of contemporary art. What an amazing proposition!
You need a hang-out, a centre where people can meet- at NSCAD in the 1970s it was the library.