LIVE BIENNIAL OF PERFORMANCE ART www. ivevancouver.bc.ca OCT 1 8 - NOV 29 2003 PERFORAAANCE ART AND THE ACADEMY BIENNIAL OPENING W e love our city for its body, not its brain. Performance art's own black eye is from a history of shock value, explicit sexuality and ultimately, failure. A complex medium with few boundaries and endless categories, its inroad into the Academy retains more the appearance of a pothole than a pathway. UBC @ ROBSON SQUARE THEATRE 8 0 0 Robson Street 604-662-4719 Performance art can be a thinker's labyrinth, a maze of inquiries, suspicions, assumptions and speculations, almost better left unanswered and therefore unfortunately misunderstood. The gestures and scenarios of this medium, though often baffling at face value, are meant to be accessible to the intuition, whose methods of expression are most often incomprehensible to either the intellect or its particular brand of articulation. But this is rarely discussed or explained; clarity and conversations are never an offer. Performance art is therefore anything but bookish which could explain the lack of written history which has contributed to many misconceptions. Writers refuse definitions, critics seem vague, institutes refrain and performers remain silent. The Academy's misrepresentation and misunderstanding have left performance art as a footnote in the history or art. However, LIVE 2 0 0 3 acknowledges this anomaly and has created much needed panel discussions every Sunday during the festival. These lectures and panels will be a platform for the public and artists to discuss different themes of live performance art in Vancouver and beyond. They will present a unique opportunity for performance artists to discuss with each other and with the public the issues engaging their work. The panels will move beyond the history and meaning of performance to discuss how it affects other disciplines, thus hinting at its own future. I would like to thank Glenn Alteen, the grunt Gallery, and the LIVE Board for giving me this opportunity to coordinate LIVE 2003 as well as all the galleries and artists for their patience and support. Generous financial support is provided by Canada Council's Visual Art and Inter-Arts Departments as well as the Province of British Columbia, the City of Vancouver Foundation and Heritage Canada. Sponsored by the Vancouver Art Gallery KRISTINE STILES Sat October 1 8th 7:00pm Props For The Memory and Doing Wrong in the Work of Joseph Beuys. No other artist of the twentieth century who engaged in war on the side of doing wrong has been as celebrated as German artist Joseph Beuys. In an unprecedented examination of the way Beuys' iconography relates to National Socialism, Stiles suggests that Beuys used his art as "a prop for the memory7' of the Third Reich. Kristine Stiles is an artist and associate professor at Duke University. She specializes in performance and experimental art, and is internationally recognized for her scholarship on destruction, violence, and trauma. She has recieved many fellowships including a John Simon Guggenheim and a Fullbright. LIVE SOCIETY AFTERPARTY WESTERN FRONT 303 E. 8th Ave. 604-876-9343 www.front.bc.ca Sponsored by Western Front Performance Art Program PAUL WONG Thank yow^all,/ David Yonge Director Sat October 1 8th 9:30pm Paul Wong creates work in video, performance, photography and installation. His work on censorship, artistic freedom and racism has traveled extensively throughout the world over the last thirty years. GRUNT GALLERY Chiasma is a collaboration between three international arts organizations: Folly (Lancaster, UK), grunt gallery (Vancouver, Canada) and Imperial Slacks (Sydney, Australia). Three artists (one from each country) will be commissioned to create a piece of work for live web transmission. Chiasma will utilize chat interfaces, live web streaming technology and cityscape projections to investigate the potential of virtual exchange and collaboration. 1 16-350 East 2nd Avenue 604-875-9516 www.grunt.bc.ca JOCELYN ROBERT Fri October 17th 8:00pm Catarina Exhibition running October 1 7th to November 8th "I am fascinated by memory...a subtle tone in the voice, a colour, a smell or a sudden light end up being part of our memories and, ultimately, being part of us." Thu November 20th - Lea Donnan (Australia) Fri November 2 1 s t - Rebecca Belmore (Canada) Sat November 2 2 n d - Hester Reeve (UK) RANDY AND BERENICCI The LIVE Performance Festival ends with four works by artists associated with Black Market International, an international collaborative group producing performance since 1985. Sat November 8th 4:30 - 7:30pm Feu de joie Site-specific location on Granville Island 6 0 4 - 8 7 5 - 9 5 1 6 www.bandr@rogers.com Randy and Berenicci will be dressed as nomadic travelers floating in the harbor on a sculpture engulfed in flames. From the land, viewers will wait in turn for their personal optically assisted telescope, which gives the illusion the performers are endlessly walking through the consuming flames. ANDRE STITT Fri November 14th 8:00pm White Trash Tue November 25th 8:00pm Boris Nieslony has worked in performance art since the 1970s and is the founder of Black Market International. He works extensively both internationally and nationally as well as organizing and networking performance art activity. Exhibition running November 14th to December 6th Since the early 1980s Stitt has been collecting photo snapshots of people and places in his adopted community in London and wherever he traveled making performances. As such these images function as a connection with a moment, a memory; as cultural artifacts and signifiers of events. HESTER REEVE REBECCA BELMORE LEA D O N N A N Wed November 26th 8:00pm Roi Vaara has been most active in Finland, becoming the country's most internationally recognized performance artist. His work since 1982 emphasizes an aesthetic discourse between the artwork and its specific place or situation. ThuNov.mb.27,h8:00pm Thu November 20th to Sat November 22nd Chiasma 7 2 hour Internet exchange (Visit LIVE 2 0 0 3 website for link @ www.livevancouver.bc.ca) Alastair MacLennan is known for long durational performances with concerns of ethics, religious/political bigotry, tolerance, social improvement, death, mutation and transformation. Collaborative work by Roi Vaara, Alastair MacLennan, and Boris Nieslony DINKA PIGNON GARETH MOORE ARTSPEAK CENTRE A 233 Carroll Street 604-688-0051 www. a rts pea k. ca 8 4 9 Homer Street 604-683-8326 www.centrea.org Alma Vandusen Room, The Vancouver Public Library DICK AVERNS Sat October 18th 2:00pm Fri November 21st 8:00pm The Armchair Terrorist Sun October 1 9th 6:00pm Racism in Empire Performances commence and conclude at Artspeak Co-produced with the Savage Media Society As part of the "Emergency Measures" exhibition at Artspeak, Averns will deliver tracts, monologues, and mime at 'seats of power' around the city, while costumed in his business suit/armchair sculpture. ALLEN FISHER Tue November 18th 8:00pm Reading by Allen Fisher This performance is inspired by the book "Empire" by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt with its philosophical and political propositions of shifting configurations of racism. However, it is clear that racism has not receded but actually progressed in the contemporary world, both in extent and in intensity. SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY Co-produced with the Kootenay School of Writing Allen Fisher's work in performance, painting and writing shifts quantum mechanics into situationist proposals. University Drive, Burnaby BC Mon October 20th 10:00 - 6:00pm Site specific performances on campus Performance art by students at Simon Fraser Unviversity. Please pick pick up a map for the locations of the various performances on campus at the W.A.C. Bennett Library located near Convocation Mall. Performances by: Daniel Anderson, Tahina Awan, Kathy-Ann Bates, Irina Chucko, Jennica Davis, Izabela Domachowski, Samer El-Nashar, Kristina Jaugelis, Katrin Lohuaru, Irene Loughlin, Aben Reynen, Maria Sandner and Reece Terris. OR GALLERY # 1 0 7 - 4 8 0 Smithe Street 604-683-7395 www.orgallery.org IGOR SANTIZO October 1 8th to November 29th Autologues The 'Autologues' work is a result of a kind of psychometry. Using simple equations, abstractions about inner space are attempted to be mapped. These ideas then become statements printed on T-shirts. Worn during special actions, documented through photography, the T-shirts are the end result and a kind of 'take away' from explorations of inner spaces and divergent logic as mediated performance. The interdisciplinary project will be presented on the Or website for the duration of LIVE. O N EDGE at grunt Gallery #1 16-350 East 2nd Avenue 604-875-9516 'www.grunt.bc.ca ROB LA FRENAIS Wed October 22nd 8:00pm W e will have an illustrated lecture and presentation by guest British curator Rob La Frenais at grunt. This is a chance to inspire future co-productions and idea exchanges between the art world and the scientific community in the ever-fascinating realm of space exploration. KIRSTEN FORKERT LEZLI RUBIN-KUNDA ACCESS ARTIST RUN CENTRE 2 0 6 Carroll Street 604-689-2907 access.rubyarts.org SHAWN BRISTOW and GARETH MOORE For two weeks Conlin will use the gallery as a studio to create installations in an improvisational way. Conlin will set up several different zones in the gallery that will function as conceptual bases, and also act as material starting points for the work that will be developed during the course of the exhibition. Visitors can interact with the artist about aspects which interest them, make suggestions, and perhaps join in working on part of it. Thu October 23rd 8:00pm Noisicians Sat October 25th 7:00pm Curated by David Yonge In principle all objects or actions are potential sources of sound. For his performance, Shawn Bristow will slowly dismantle an electric guitar while it is plugged in. Without creating any traditional compositions or music, the guitar will provide an audio description of its own destruction. Gareth Moore's position tonight will be that of a silent conductor directing 3 0 street buskers to simultaneously play different songs at the same time. This many buskers creates the possibility of synchronicity while simultaneously encouraging chaos and randomness before ultimately petering out. ESSE 'Barbed Wire' is McMurry's autobiographical performance that will challenge our perceptions and emotions. W e will witness him in states of physical danger as he performs defiant and dangerous activities that young boys specifically engage in. McMurry's work draws on his childhood experiences growing up on a rural farm. Issues of isolation, self destruction, violence, fear, hard work and the ever present need to impress people are evident in his performances. Sat November 1st to 15th NORMA Thu November 13th 8:00pm Walk, Walk, Shuffle Location: To be decided on together with each individual/small group To make an appointment please call 604-721-9466 or kfpc@intergate.ca Matching outfits and brightly coloured dance shoes will be Norma's uniform for this performance that will emphasize and undermine the boundaries that separate audience from performer. As a group we will decide on an everyday activity that we will perform together, and on the location for this activity (in public or private space). W e will perform this activity in ways that draw attention to the experience of time (literally, the possibilities of spending time together). WESTERN FRONT 303 East 8th Avenue 604-876-9343 www.front.bc.ca Sat November 15th 6:00pm Two weeks of site-specific and non-specific public interventions in and around Vancouver come to a closure tonight as participants and the public are invited to a potluck for a discussion with the artist. PETER CONLIN Opening Fri October 24th 8:00pm Freedom Performative installation October 24th to November 8th Mon November 17th 8:00pm See November issue of Front for details. Thu November 20th 8:00pm Lezli will spend a number of days collecting plant materials, debris, and assorted objects, starting on November 16th. She will explore the properties and LUCIA MADRIZ MIMA PRESTON possibilities each material has in relation to her body by using them in private rituals. Photos, sketches and notes will act as a backdrop for a final act. VIDEO IN Video In. For the month of November the studio will be turned into a four week long working space as Ken reworks technical elements of this series and works on current ideas. THE CRYING ROOM 1965 Main Street 604-872-8337 www.videoinstudios.com 157 E. Cordova Street 604-734-0716 www.eciad.bc.ca/~woo/cryingroom LORI WEIDENHAMMER MIMA PRESTON and GARETH MOORE Sat October 25th noon - 5:00pm One Hundred Housewives Site-specific performance: The Y W C A Thrift Shop, 4 3 9 9 Main Street pcourt@smartt.com This durational performance explores notions of fluidity in identity through a series of costumes, wigs and make-up. Each costume or 'persona' of popular housewives (both real and fictional) will be documented and produced as a series of images. The use of the storefront works in two ways: as a contrast to the invisibility one often experiences in her day to day 'performance' as a mother and as the creation of a metaphoric mask to hide how undervalued and insecure she really feels. ; Sat October 25th 5:00 - 7:00pm Picnic . "Picnic" sites are chosen for their potential areas of leisure as well as their unique and sometimes awkward placement in the city. Pedestrians are encouraged to join and participate in these site-specific picnics. The closing reception will be a thorough photo documentation of many "Picnics" in Vancouver and beyond. NEUTRAL GROUND iRegM Bartlett Exhibition and Performance Space 61 1 Alexander Street www.neutralground.sk.ca DINKA PIGNON Wed October 29th 8:00pm Dinner - For Corporeal and Radiant Beings Reality is mirrored through video feeds that have real guests dining with virtual ones in this intimate and eerie experience. Video guests address real guests in arbitrary conversations as if they were able to see them. Guests can respond to the video guests with pre-scripted dialogues and also have a conversation with their own phantom. KEN GREGORY ONE NIGHT ONLY Sat November 1st 8:00-10:00pm The "One Night Only" group work by taking over alternate or empty spaces to create a site-specific installation in dialogue with the form and function of the space. Six artists will inhabit the space for about a week in which inspiration will come from the neighborhood, the galleries' architecture and local life. Sat November 15th noon - 3:00pm Sat November 22nd noon - 3:00pm Select works from Gregory's recent series How to Predict the Weather Using a Pig Spleen will be presented at HELEN PITT GALLERY 882 Homer Street 604-681-6740 www.eciad.bc.ca/~pittg VANESSA KWAN JOSH NEELANDS KARA UZELMAN Tue November 4th 8:00pm The Comedians This 3 hour performance is based on a 5 minute comedian's solo routine taken from a late night talk show. IGOR SANTIZO JULIANNA BARABAS LIVE CALENDAR Fri Oct 1 7th 8pm Jocelyn Robert opens @ grunt gallery W e d Nov 1 2th 8pm Irene Loughlin @ Gallery Gachet Sat Oct 1 8th 7pm Kristine Stiles @ Vancouver Art Gallery Thu Nov 1 3th 8pm Norma @ Access Sat Oct 1 8th 9pm Paul Wong @ Western Front Fri Nov 14th 8pm Andre Stitt opens @ grunt gallery Sun Oct 1 8th 2pm Theories and Hybridities @ grunt gallery Sat Nov 15th noon-3pm Ken Gregory @ Video In Sun Oct 19th 6pm M o Salemy @ Centre A Sat Nov 15th 6pm Kirsten Forkert @ Western Front Mon Oct 20th 106pm Students from SFU (Main Campus) Sat Nov 15th 8pm Reona Brass @ Gallery Gachet W e d Oct 22nd 8pm Rob La Frenais (On Edge) @ grunt gallery Sun Nov 1 6th 2pm Memory and Performance @ grunt gallery Thu Oct 23rd 8pm Bristow and Moore @ Access Mon Nov 17th 8pm Rebecca Belmore @ Western Front Fri Oct 24th 8pm Peter Conlin opens @ Western Front Tue Nov 1 8th 8pm Allen Fisher reading @ Artspeak W e d Nov 19th 8pm Julianna Barabas ©Hastings Art Gallery Thu Nov 20th Lea Donnan (Imperial Slacks) W e b Transmission Thu Nov 20th 8pm Lezli Rubin-Kunda @ Western Front ' Fri Nov 21 st Rebecca Belmore W e b Transmission Sat Oct 25th noon-5pm Lori Weidenhammer (Video In) @ Y W C A Thrift Store Sat Oct 25th 5-7pm Mima Preston @ Crying Room Sat Oct 25th 7pm Sun Oct 26th 2pm Jamie McMurry @ Western Front The Future of Performance Art @ grunt gallery W e d Oct 29th 8pm Dinka Pignon @ Video In Sat N o v l st 8pm One Night Only (Neutral Ground) @ SFU Bartett Space Sat Nov 22nd Hester Reeve (Folly) W e b Transmission Sun Nov 2nd 2pm Collaboration @ grunt gallery Sat Nov 22nd 3pm Half-a-Tank Radix Theatre (Ontario & 1st) Tue Nov 4th 8pm Kwan, Neelands, Uzelman @ Helen Pitt Sun Nov 23rd 2pm Trauma and Endurance @ grunt gallery W e d Nov 5th 8pm Gifford, Giliiland @ Helen Pitt Mon Nov 24th 8pm Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa @ Gallery Gachet Thu Nov 6th 8pm Dolores Dallas (1AAAG) @ grunt gallery Tue Nov 25th 8pm Boris Nieslony @ grunt gallery Fri Nov 7th noon-6pm Eric Cameron/Laura Baird @ Contemporary Art Gallery W e d Nov 26th 8pm Roi Vaara @ grunt gallery Berangere Perizeau ©Gallery Gachet Thu Nov 27th 8pm Alastair MacLennan @ grunt gallery Sat Nov 8th noon-6pm Laura Baird/Eric Cameron @ Contemporary Art Gallery Fri Nov 28th 8pm Collaborative Work: Nieslony, Vaara and MacLennan @ grunt gallery Sat Nov 8th 4:30pm Randy and Berenicci @ Granville Island Waterfont Sat Nov 29th 8pm Rodney Graham Band Sun Nov 9th 2pm Process @ grunt gallery Sun Nov 9th 8pm Boehme and Price (Open Space) @ grunt gallery Fri Nov 21 st 8pm Dick Averns @ Artspeak Sat Nov 22nd noon-3pm Ken Gregory @ Video In Fri Nov 7th 8pm All three artists will be wearing identical clothing and repeating the monologues simultaneously including gestures, emotional expressions and speech patterns. This performative loop will begin before the doors open and end after they close. R ffln *d November 5th 8:00pm this performance, Giliiland plans to explain or clarify virtues of the letter "C" to people, while espousing the trials and tribulations incurred through the process of written creation. Laughter may be involved. "Take that paint!! Put it there!! You can do it!! Cause you care!!" After quitting art school, Gifford has been committed to a year-long regimen of physical training for cheerleading. She will perform her "opening cheers" designed to unite the audience in their expression of support for our local artists. Baird and painter of 'Thick Paintings" Eric Cameron to round out a project initiated almost a decade ago when Baird allowed Cameron to photograph every orifice in her body. Since then, Cameron has been applying coats of "paint" (gesso) to the nine canisters of undeveloped film, keeping in mind his commitment to allow Baird to choose whichever of the first two she would like to have, when both had accumulated a thousand half-coats. The last twenty half-coats needed to bring each piece to that level will be applied in the Gallery by Eric Cameron, working in front of a Cotworks videotape by Baird. Laura Baird (and her cats) may put in an appearance from time to time and carousels of slides available on viewer-operated caramates will offer summaries of the careers of both artists. The event, which celebrates more than a quarter of a century of intermittent professional association and continuing personal friendship, will culminate with Baird's selection of the work she will receive. GALLERY GACHET at grunt gallery # 1 1 6 - 3 5 0 East 2nd Ave. 604-875-9516 www.grunt.bc.ca 88 E. Cordova Street 604-687-2468 www.gachet.org BERANGERE PARIZEAU Fri November 7th 8:00pm HI show you happiness t hu November 6th 8:00pm m m Jallas will create a moving sculpture by transforming animal hides into abstract forms and sculptures, applying "tattoo-like" designs and free verse poetry to the surfaces. The planes of the skins will be screens onto which she will project her collected images of traditional Native culture as well as themes that are spiritually and organically based. Throughout this luminescent display of art objects, Dallas will perform songs from her traditional Native heritage. Parizeau dedicates her work to freedom and to the demystification of enlightenment. In this piece she represents the dream state and explores themes of death and rebirth symbolically through the psychological hysteria of a clown. This piece unfolds with abstract images both humorous and disturbing. IRENE LOUGHLIN Wed November 12th 8:00pm Piss on Pity Persons with mental illness have experienced the all too familiar sedating and controlling soother of pity and learned to resent and fight against pity as the determinant 555 Nelson St. 604-681-2700 www.contemporaryarthgallery.ca Fri November 7th noon - 6:00pm C November 8th noon - 6:00pm ;rformance-installation brings together artist Laura LORI WEIDENHMAMER IRENE LOUGHLIN that furthers their oppression. In a paradoxical act of public humiliation, Loughlin pisses all over pity, thus metaphorically relieving herself. Preceded by "Transferences of Sensation" Video Screening Lucia Madriz, Regina Galindo Photo Exhibition by Jorge de Leon OPEN SPACE at grunt gallery #1 1 6 - 3 5 0 East 2nd Ave 604-875-9516 www.grunt.bc.ca JUDITH PRICE and JOHN G. BOEHME REONA BRASS Sat November 15th 8:00pm Sun November 9th 8:00pm The Performance Evaluation Review I seek a new way of seeing, thinking about, and encountering the other while asking myself questions of what the self is, can be, and what it is doing. My interest is in breaking down belief systems and ritual actions to discover the elements that may be used to resist, subvert and negotiate reconnection with the other. Two performances will occur simultaneously in adjoining rooms. Each performance reflects the disparate bodies of work that the two artists pursue separately. When they interface with each other (either purposefully or accidentally) a third performance will begin. This exploration will occur with the use of diverse contemporary teaching aids, gesture, movement and language. Monday November 24th 8pm The Wandering Libido IMPERIAL SLACKS I A ^ M The hole of the female genital organs may appear in another part of the body, the penis as a stiffness or as a piece of wood somewhere else. The artist takes on the role of patient and survivor of psychiatry, and attempts to convey the experience of sexuality while under Haldon. Haldon can relocate a sensory experience into a different part of the body during a bout of hysteria and sexual frustration. HASTINGS ART GALLERY LEA D O N N A N Thu November 20th Chiasma web-based live transmission Lea Donnan will be broadcasting her performance live from her home town of Sydney, Australia. Visit www.livevancouver.bc.ca for link. FOLLY (UKI 4 7 8 Union Street (at Jackson) 604-833-8492 HESTER REEVE JULIANNA BARABAS web-based live transmission Wed November 19th 8:00pm Seamline Barabas illustrates the body as a vessel for energy, essence and idea. A tattoo excavates the seamline between the front and back of the artists body. The artist asks, what is connection? what do we contain? and what is the nature of the trace we leave behind? Sat November 22nd Chiasma Hester Reeve is based in Lancaster England and will be broadcasting her live performance from there. Hester's internet work in LIVE 2001 was the inspiration for Chiasma. Visit www.livevancouver.bc.ca for link. REONA BRAS: ROI VAARA ARTISTS' BIOGRAPHIES bite-specific location (Ontario Street and 1 st Avenue) radix@vcn.bc.ca Sat November 22nd 3:00pm Part drive-in theatre, part live radio show, "Haifa-Tank" will take place in a large parking lot, where audience members will be seated inside their cars, parked in a larae circle facing inward. Inside the circle, a solitary car will rotate endlessly without a driver. Lights, smoke, live music and performances will be a backdrop as we anticipate the car's slow demise into the evening. British artist DICK AVERNS trained in the UK during the rise of the Young British Artist Movement and has been practicing in Vancouver since 1 9 9 7 . A prairie transplant now living in Vancouver, JULIANNA BARABAS is a conceptual performance artist with a background in photography, video and theatre. Two common strands throughout REBECCA BELMORE's work are her belief in the critical importance of Aboriginal attachment to the land, and her inclusion of other peoples' voices, perspectives or entrancement, borrowed as a means of using common human experience as a link to the past. RANDY and BERENICCI have been collaborating together for 3 0 years to produce a unique body of site-specific and time-based art, mainly in the areas of performance, video, installation and public sculpture. Presented by the LIVE Biennial Society J O H N G. BOEHME's work integrates new practices with a multi-disciplinary approach, which often incorporates sculpture, performance, photography, video, digital technology, and installation. Over the past nine years Boehme has developed an extensive exhibition record both nationally and internationally. Sat November 29th 9:00pm REONA BRASS negotiates emancipation of a society increasingly bereft of shame. Her work with other artists remains critical to her exploration of native feminist art practices. Location to be announced. Please check the website: www.livevancouver.bc.ca Rodney Graham is one of Canada's leading international artists. His work in every medium can be traced to a performance art sensibility. His interests are also in music and especially rock n' roll culture. Since graduating from ECIAD 10 years ago, S H A W N BRISTOW has been performing his sound pieces throughout Vancouver and on recent trips to London and Mexico City. ERIC CAMERON was born in England in 1935 and immigrated to Canada in 1 9 6 9 . Apart from being a painter, Cameron has been an active instructor throughout Canada over his career including the Director of the MFA program at NSCAD. PETER CONLIN is based in Vancouver and has been producing performance and installation work. He works individually as well as collaboratively. DOLORES DALLAS is a native artist and performer from the Cowichan nation. She has an extensive arts background working in film and video, theatre and visual art. LEA D O N N A N s performance work stems from a universal lost' consciousness of fragmented information. She examines points of intersection in the human experience through time. ALLEN FISHER is a poet and painter and a professor of Poetry and Art at the University of Surrey, Roehampton, UK. Working with Fluxus in the early 7 0 s , his materialist PLACE project was published in the UK, France and the USA. Brixton Fractals was published by Tsunami in 1 9 9 9 . HESTER REEVE JOCELYN ROBERT KIRSTEN FORKERT's practice, which is often site-specific, investigates relationships between public and larger social and economic structures as they play out in urban space. Forkert wishes to thank the Canada Council and the Inter-Arts Office. BORIS NIESLONY is a German artist who has worked extensively in performance art since the 1 970's. In the 1 980's he founded Black Market International, a performance group of artists from different countries who come together regularly to produce solo and group performance works. DEVON GIFFORD is a recent graduate of ECIAD and works in installation, performance and sculpture. All eight members of NORMA are currently fourth year students at ECIAD. During the last two years, the collective has produced installation and performance work that uses absurdity, physical endurance and provocation to explore issues of power and cultural anxiety. MARK GILIILAND has been performing one-man sketch comedy for the past two years in local comedy venues. RODNEY GRAHAM is an internationally acclaimed Canadian artist working primarily as a performance artist whose conceptual forms span video, photography, music, sculpture, drawing and installation. He has received many honours including being selected to represent Canada in the prestigious Venice Bienniale in 1 9 9 7 . Winnipeg artist KEN GREGORY has been working with DIY interface design, hardware hacking, audio, video, and computer programming for over 1 0 years. VANESSA K W A N acquired her BA (Honours) in English Literature from UBC in 1 9 9 9 . She is currently in the Integrated Media Department at ECIAD. She has received three awards recently and exhibits and performs regularly. ROB LA FRENAIS is curator of the Arts Catalyst, the UK's science-art agency, which has been organising collaborative projects between scientists and artists since 1993. IRENE LOUGHLIN is a performance artist who also works in the areas of installation and video. She explores issues surrounding gender roles, ecological concerns, female history, definitions of the body, and the politics and aesthetics of regeneration. Born in Scotland, ALASTAIR M A C L E N N A N is known for long, durational performances, ('Days and Nights' 144 hour non-stop actuation) with concerns of ethics, religious/political bigotry, tolerance, social improvement, death, mutation and transformation. In 1 9 9 7 he represented Ireland at the Venice Bienniale. JAMIE McMURRY has performed extensively in the United States, Russia, Romania, Finland, Mexico, and Canada. He is the director of "Full Nelson", an annual festival of performance art in Los Angeles. GARETH MOORE is a recent graduate of ECIAD with a wide range of performances and installation based work. JOSH NEELANDS is still attending ECIAD and has received three scholarships already. He has exhibited in 'Artropolis' and 'Expect Delays'. Members of O N E NIGHT ONLY have worked together previously in collaborative projects using alternate spaces dating as early as 1 9 9 6 with the 'Bulk Cheese Factory Collective'. Apart from their appearance in LIVE 2 0 0 3 , members of this collective will be performing in Toronto and Havana. BERANGERE PARIZEAU received her BFA from Concordia University in 2 0 0 2 and is currently living and performing in San Francisco. DINKA P I G N O N is an interdisciplinary artist working in performance, video, sound and various other free forms of expression. Her work has a strong affinity for conceptual, minimal, and experimental art, and for 'noise culture' in general. MIAAA PRESTON is a recent graduate of ECIAD working in performance and site-specific interventions and installations. JUDITH PRICE has been working as an interdisciplinary artist for 1 5 years and has incorporated spoken and/or written text into electronic technology. The RADIX THEATRE has been pushing boundaries of live performance for years in Vancouver. They are responsible for such memorable pieces as the "Sniffy the Rat" Bus Tour. Born in Guatemala City, NAUFUS RAMIREZ-FIGUEROA's work is informed by the histories of imperialism and colonization, and he is interested in the way subaltern bodies are created and shaped through observation and action. HESTER REEVE is a visual artist, a project leader and a university lecturer. Her specialization is in live art, visual art and nature, dialogic methodology, and philosophical thought. JOCELYN ROBERT is a multidisciplinary artist from Quebec City. Known for his research into audio art, he has produced seven solo recordings and participated in 2 0 others in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. LEZLI RUBIN-KUNDA was born in Toronto and now lives and teaches in Israel. She has exhibited her work in the United States, Canada and Israel. M O SA'LEMY is an artist, teacher, software developer, fashion designer and co-owner of Dadabase. ANDRE STITT RANDY A N D BERENICCI BERANGERE PARIZEAU REBECCA BELMORE IGOR SANTIZO's drawings, found object work, conceptual projects and sound experiments attempt to map consciousness, body, object and document as stratas of attention, experience and art making. His is a production of play and formulation as inquiry. The LIVE Society with the participating galleries and artists would to thank our sponsors whose generous support has fuelled LIVE's growth and continuation. KRISTINE STILES is an artist and associate professor at Duke University. She specializes in performance and experimental art, and is internationally recognized for her scholarship on destruction, violence and trauma. Canada Council Visual Art Program Canada Council Inter-Arts Office British Columbia Arts Council The Vancouver Foundation City of Vancouver Office of Cultural Affairs The BC Gaming Commission Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts Bartlett Exhibition and Performance Space The InterNation Project Kootenay School of Writing Capital Regional District Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres (PAARC) FADO Welsh Arts Council Government of Finland Goethe Institute Saskatchewan Arts Board Canadian Heritage Members and Volunteers of all the Artist Run Centres ANDRE STITT is considered one of the UK's foremost performance art creators. He has produced over 2 5 0 unique performances at major galleries, festivals, alternative venues and public spaces throughout the western world. KARA UZELMAN received the ECIAD Tuition Scholarship and went on to obtain a Helen Pitt Award two years in a row. She is currently attending ECIAD. ROI VAARA has been most active in Finland, becoming the country's most internationally recognized performance artist. His work in performance since 1982 has been conceptual, absurd and humorous. LORI WEIDENHAMMER has worked as an artist for over ten years, creating performance art theatre, musical comedy, radio art, poetry, installation, and video. Her work has shown in Canada and Europe. PAUL W O N G is a media arts pioneer and veteran, the first and youngest artist to break many barriers in the Canadian art scene. A T H E CANADA C O U N C I L | L E CONSEIL DES ARTS u CANADA E 1957 I DEPUIS 1957 Canadian 1*1 Heritage Patrimoine canadien i§mE~INiT!Til BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTS C O U N C I L City of Vancouver l«aa«H wales arts international "\\!