LIVE Biennial of Performance Art 2005
EVENT SCHEDULE AND BRIEF DESCRIPTIONS
NOVEMBER 3-12 LISTINGS
(Ordered by date/time and by programme: first event of a day highlighted in green)
Schedule subject to change. All events in association with LIVE Biennial.
Thursday, November 3rd, 8pm
PAM HALL & MARGARET DRAGU
Performance Installation: MARGINALIA

Installation runs: November 4, 5, 6
grunt gallery, #116 - 350 East 2nd Avenue, Vancouver (between Scotia and Brunswick
MARGINALIA is a performance and installation work by Dragu and Hall that began February - March 2004 during
their VASISTAS' residency at Theatre La Chapelle in Montreal. Since then, they have been extremely busy:
exchanging e-mail/snail mail correspondence, collecting video imagery, writing and exchanging text, and
especially creating/scanning/e-mailing daily postcard/journal/snapshot echoes of their lives in the form of textile
"squares" that echo and contest the domestic traditions of women's handwork.
Friday, November 4, 8pm
MARK BRADY

Sound-based Performance: UNTITLED
Beehive Hair Lounge, 4385 Main Street, 604-709-9928
Vancouver-based sound artist Mark Brady will present a sound-based performative installation in the Beehive Hair
Lounge, where the ambience is pure 70s rec room, complete with drum kit and goldfish aquarium.
Spitting on the stereotype of laptop kid' Mark's ongoing mission is to resist specialization and the lure of the hive,
which cries out for him to fly to the suburbs and help out with the egg laying.
For more information about Mark go to:

iniei-imabm'n.uiu

Presented by The Escape Artists' Society (T.E.A.S.)

Friday, November 4, 8pm
PETER CONLIN

Installation Opening: BETWEEN ALL AND NOTHING
Discussion event: November 12, 2pm
Exhibit runs: November 5th - November 19
Vancouver Access Artist Run Centre: 206 Carrall St., Vancouver / 604-689-2907
BETWEEN ALL AND NOTHING is a gallery-encompassing installation consisting of thousands of text phrases taken
from the artist's own collection. During the 3-week exhibition, Conlin will remain in the space during gallery hours,
rearranging the installation and interacting with gallery visitors. Movable zones of association will determine the
arrangement of the phrases, as will the conversations between Conlin and the public.
www.vaarc.ca/ iotu^

Friday, November 4,10pm
Opening: OUT OF THE STORM

Exhibition: part of OUT OF THE RAIN November 4 - 2 7
Gallery Gachet, 88 Cordova Street, Vancouver www.gachet.org
Opening night lyrical video performance, "Out of the Storm," involving street youth artists, begins a month-long
exhibition at Gallery Gachet ("Out of the Rain": November 4 to 27). The four artists are mentored by Naufus
Ramirez-Figueroa (performance art) and Bill Bissett (poetry).

Media Contact: Gwen Kallio 604-215-2345 / sisuproductions@telus.net
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The performance event is produced as a collaboration between the Roundhouse, Gallery Gachet, and in association with the
Vancouver International Writers & Readers Festival, DTES Community Arts Initiative and Judith Marcuse Project's
Earth(lings).
Info at: gallery@gachet.org, www.outoftherain.org or for artist participation: contact@outoftherain.org.
Saturday, November 5, 6pm
DlSASTEROIDS
Live Procession: SHORT CIRCUIT
From: 261 Powell St. to 1965 Main St.
At 6pm, a procession will begin in front of the original site of the Video In Studios, 261 Powell St. From there the
procession will visit both former and current locations of some of Vancouver's most significant alternative media
and arts organization to honor their spirit and legacy with performance, action and installation! The procession will
lead to a reception at Video In Studios' current location, 1965 Main St. Participants are invited to bring music,
food, clothes, traditions, nothing, candles, books, art, boredom, audio recorders...
Also: Performance Installation Series: ALTERED PIECE
Video In, 1965 Main St. Front Window
ALTERED PIECE is an installation in the front window at Video In - a giant altar that the artists begin building on the

inside of one of the Video In front windows, then inviting people/passers by to build on the outside. The result will
be one big mixed media altar in two parts, separated by the window pane. The alter- making began on October 30
and continues until Nov. 7th. The live performance is in the exhibited collaborative process and participation in
altar creation.
Disasteroids is a collective for mixed media experimentation, collaboration and celebration
Saturday, November 5th, 10pm
THE BUTCHERSHOP COLLECTIVE
Group Show/Performance: SILENT HEADPHONE PARTY
The Butchershop Gallery, 195 East. 26th Ave (at Main)
Tonight's performance launches a month of experimentation at the Butchershop Gallery using a low-powered
radio transmitter and 30 modified headphone/radio sets.
Throughout November the shop will showcase work in multiple disciplines from experimental audio to innovative
theatrical performances.
Wednesday, November 9, 8pm
WARREN ARCAN

Performance: FLORA AND FAUNA

Western Front,
From 303 E. 8th Avenue, 604-878-7563 www.front.bc.ca
Tickets $5/$8
Warren Arcan's performance promises to be a thought-provoking work about sex, ethnicity and masculinity. His
previous works have been compelling theatrically-based works, which can be enjoyed on many different levels.
"The idea is to make images and sensations out of sexual imagery and to recompose and decompose maleness.
It's come to my attention that men are predators. That's interesting. Bad animal, he is. So I want to take a look at
that, too. Possible encounters include romance and fascism, the intimate and the abject, and theories of desire.
The whole thing kind of freaks me out." Warren Arcan
Thursday, November 10, 8pm
Concert: AL NEIL PROJECT

Roundhouse Community Centre
New Orchestra Workshop Society and Coastal Jazz and Blues co-present a concert featuring Al Neil's ultimate
tribute band with legendary Vancouver improvisers Gregg Simpson on drums, Clyde Reed on bass and
Vancouver improviser Paul Plimley on piano. Joining them are sampling/electronics artist Giorgio Magnanensi
and performance poet Kederick James. Neil's partner, artist Carol Itter, and VJ Krista Lomax will produce images
for the event.
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Info: www.coastaljazz.ca
Friday, November 11 th , 7pm
Artist Talk: MEREDITH MONK
The Ironworks, 235 Alexander Street www.mundomundo.com
See biographical information under November 12, 8pm.
Presented by International Arts Initiatives with the Vancouver Art Gallery
Saturday, November 12,2pm
DISCUSSION EVENT: PETER CONLIN

Installation: BETWEEN ALL AND NOTHING
Exhibit runs: November 5th - November 19
Vancouver Access Artist Run Centre: 206 Carrall St., Vancouver / 604-689-2907
BETWEEN ALL AND NOTHING is a gallery-encompassing installation consisting of thousands of text phrases taken
from the artist's own collection. During the 3-week exhibition, Conlin will remain in the space during gallery hours,
rearranging the installation and interacting with gallery visitors. Movable zones of association will determine the
arrangement of the phrases, as will the conversations between Conlin and the public.

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Saturday, November 12th, 4 pm
K.I.T. AND ROBERT SAUCIER
Opening: INFRASENSE

Exhibition runs: November 12th to December 3rd
grunt gallery, 116 - 350 E. 2nd Avenue 604-875-9516 www.grunt.bc.ca
INFRASENSE is a two-person collaborative sound and robotic installation. Nine plastic and metal molded robotic
sculptures, representing the Trojan horse' electronic virus, will move slowly across the gallery space in a straight
line, backwards and forwards. Three faster 'Bugs' that are remote-controlled will be maneuvered around the
Trojan horses, as if they are trying desperately for some way to hook up to them or discover what they are
carrying.
INFRASENSE takes concepts from the digital world, renders them in physical sculptural form and then returns

control of these forms to the digital landscape of the World Wide Web. The gallery that hosts the project becomes
a 'carrier' of the virus, which is adaptable to changes in the location/environment and is, therefore, site specific.
The resultant work plays out both on the Web and in real time.
This project is in conjunction with Folly Gallery UK

Saturday, November 12th, 8pm
Concert: MEREDITH MONK AND VOCAL ENSEMBLE
Chan Centre @ UBC
Tickets at Ticketmaster.ca, 604-280-3311 & Chan Box Office (in person)
Info: 604-822-2697 or www.mundomundo.com
Meredith Monk is a legendary composer, singer, director/choreographer and creator of new opera, musical
theatre works, films and installations. A pioneer in interdisciplinary performance work, her ground-breaking
exploration of the voice as an instrument, as an eloquent language in an of itself, expands the boundaries of
musical composition, creating landscapes of sound that unearth feelings, energies, and memories for which we
have no words. She has alternatively been proclaimed as a "voice of the future" and "one of America's coolest
composers." During a career that spans more than 35 years, she has been acclaimed by audiences and critics as
a major creative force in the performing arts.
Presented by International Arts Initiatives and the Chan Centre

Media Contact: Gwen Kallio 604-215-2345 / sisuproductions@telus.net
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