i if 'j'M i w T T I'll i H\ L'i HK£'l • M g f V W r I OCT 1 FRIDAY 8pm Performance Art Cabaret Vogue Theatre OCT 2 SATURDAY 8pm tba Andrew McCully Dynamo Gallery Trevor Gould & Jerry Allen location tba OCT 6 WEDNESDAY 7:30pm Writers'Talk Vancouver Art Gallery Oct. 30 & 31 Maya Love Dance Performance Vancouver has created its own unique history in the relatively new field of Performance Art. As a new city in an old land nestled between the East of North America and the Far East, it is the Final West. New ideas catch on quickly here, be they new age or new wave, and performance was just one of a multitude of new ideas that were spawned in the sixties. Artists collectives like Intermedia became the precursor to the artist centres of today. And performance art remains a staple in these places as well as bars and cabarets that spring up spontaneously across the city. Performance Art is the Vancouver form and this festival is a means to celebrate our history in it. But Vancouver's Performance Art history is hidden underground in many ways. Seldom advertised or written about it continues to evolve and grow without much encouragement outside the artists communities. The aim of this festival is to bring the practice above ground and into the cold bright light of day. The festival features some of Vancouver's oldest and best-known practitioners. It offers the opportunity to see new and established artists from both Vancouver and around the world. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the participating institutions and our sponsors including Canada Council for the Arts, du Maurier Arts Council, and the British Columbia Arts Council. On behalf of grunt and the participating institutions I would like to invite you to participate in Live at the End of the Century. Come to the cabaret, the performances, the lecture series or the symposium. A dozen of Vancouver arts institutions have come together to bring a focus on Vancouver's talented performers. But be warned this isn't theatre, nobody is acting here, and performance art remains the most nebulous of subjects. Anything can happen. Come in with an open mind and Enjoy! Glenn Alteen Director grunt gallery The piece is a compilation of four solos. The image and message of Mary Magdalene is portrayed from four historical viewpoints: the medieval, the Elizabethan, the turn of the Twentieth Century, and the modern. The challenge of uniting the physical and spiritual is developed with reference to female sexuality, and tied in to the search for the Holy Grail. Characters oscillate between shame and pleasure, strength and weakness, and inner and outer awareness using text and movement to convey their journeys. VOGUE THEATRE Sat, Oct 30 & Sun, Oct 31, 8pm, Dynamo Gallery 142 West Hastings St, 602-9005, Tickets $5 at the door Oct 1 Performance Art Cabaret Vancouver has had a long history of performance art multi media events, which have, manifest themselves in cabaret style evenings. Music, dance, poetry and visual art spilled together into the mix to offer up an eclectic evening of surprising results. Emcee: Jay MacLaughlin; House Band: Libeatos Performers: Warren Arcan, Margaret Dragu, John Boehme, Anthony Favel McNab, Jeet-Kei, Carellin Brooks, Aiyyana Maracle, Tagny Duff, Clay Hastings &Adad, Kokoro Dance, 'I, Braineater', Stephen Anthony, Christine Taylor and more Produced by grunt gallery Fri, Oct 1, 8pm, Vogue Theatre, 918 Granville St Tickets $10 & $13 Ticketmaster 280-4444 or grunt gallery 875-9516 DYNAMO GALLERY Oct 2 Andrew McCully In collaboration with Lena Olin & William Fox The Crash Andrew McCully has not hung an exhibition of paintings since early in this decade. On the East Coast (where he has his earliest roots) the exhibition Darkness to Light, his first solo show, was his earliest investigation into the nature of the self. Lena Olin and William Fox are McCully's co-conspirators in The Crash. 1 ft n e Oct 2 Jerry Allen and Trevor Gould Hotel/Motel This evening brings together the work of two artists that focus discussion on the public reception of a work of art. The use of a hotel room for this installation/ performance attempts to draw on conditions of private and public space. Drinks will be served. Trevor Gould is a Montreal based multi-media artist working from the insight that sculpture is an intervention of social material. His exhibitions involve the production of art work to be seen as cultural research. Jerry Allen lives and works in Vancouver. For the past decade his work has dealt with questions related to the making of exhibitions. The practice of installation art from his perspective can be seen as an attempt to picture an illusion of irrational space. Sat, Oct 2, location & time tba, 683-7395, free co-sponsored by The Sadie Bronfman Gallery We step into the year 1929 and the big crash is looming ahead. We see him, perhaps mad in the surrounding whirlwind and we see her who shapes his destiny. The Players flit in and out of his mind, and as the paranoia grows does anyone know where to turn? > — OR GALLERY Sat, Oct 2, 8pm, Dynamo Galler> 142 W Hastings Si 602-900f Tickets $5 at the dooi Oct 23 Geoffrey Farmer Folk Music (you can hurt me with it) Take what you want and pay for it. There are some things that you find that can cost you a hell of a lot more than you think they cost. I don't know. I just have never seen anyone who messed with finding things out. I mean philosophy about it is fine, making lovely statements, writing essays doesn't hurt anybody, but the closer you get to it the worst off you get and the more it eats into you. Better not mess with it for to long and better stay away when you have used it. Geoffrey Farmer lives and works in Vancouver. He recently exhibited his work at the Melbourne International Biennial. Sat, Oct 23, 8pm Or Gallery 103-400 Smithe St 683-7395, free OCT 7 THURSDAY VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 9pm Satina Saturnina Anza Club In May 2000, grunt gallery will be publishing a book on performance art in Vancouver, also titled Live at the End of the Century. Most of the writers whose essays will appear in this book will be presenting first draft readings of their work as part of the festival. This publication has received funding from the Canada Council Millennium Fund. 9pm Oct 6 Archer Pechawis, Lizard Jones Artists' Talk OCT 13 WEDNESDAY OCT 8 FRIDAY Helena Goldwater Western Front OCT 9 SATURDAY 8pm Kiss'n Tell Video In Studios OCT 12 TUESDAY 8pm Judith Norris & Reona Brass Havana Gallery 7:30pm Writers' Talk Video In Studios OCT 15 FRIDAY Archer Pechawis has been writing an overview/review of Post-Oka aboriginal performance in Vancouver, focusing on the 'aboriginal diaspora'. Archer Pechawis is a multi-disciplinary performing artist whose performance work investigates the intersection of traditional Plains Cree culture and digital technology. 6pm 9pm Ann Hamilton Vancouver Art Gallery Marlene Madison-Plimley Western Front Lizard Jones of Kiss'n Tell will be drawing on the group's performance/writing, an exploration of performance within writing, photography, video and interactive installation. Their writing talks about pushing the boundaries between the subjectivity of the performers and their audience. OCT 19 TUESDAY OCT 16 SATURDAY 9pm 8pm Dana Claxton Western Front Lori Blondeau & Thirza Cuthand Havana Gallery OCT 2 0 WEDNESDAY 7:30pm Writers'Talk Vancouver Art Gallery OCT 21 THURSDAY Kiss'n Tell have been producing installation and performance in Vancouver since the late 80"s. 8pm Wed, Oct 6, 7:30pm, Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby St, 662-4700, free 8pm Andrea Fraser Western Front OCT 2 2 FRIDAY Clint Burnham & Mark Laba Artspeak OCT 23 SATURDAY Oct 20 Warren Arcan, Margaret Dragu Writers' Talk Warren Arcan will be looking at performance as a vehicle that moves across various and interlocking registers of time, economics and consumption. Arcan is a Vancouver based performance artist of Cree ancestry, whose work has been characterized by his investigation of information and language. Margaret Dragu will be looking at the stereotypes that have come to be associated with performance art, especially around performance artists' use of their bodies in their work. Margaret Dragu has been performing and producing video work since the early seventies nationally and internationally. Wed, Oct 20, 7:30pm, Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby St, 662-4700, free tba 8pm tba Millie Chen & Evelyn Von Michalofski Granville Island Public Market Geoffrey Farmer Or Gallery Notes from the Lab tba OCT 24 SUNDAY tba Millie Chen & Evelyn Von Michalofski Granville Island Public Market OCT 26 TUESDAY 8pm Ruby Truly & Sandra Lockwood Havana Gallery OCT 27 WEDNESDAY 7:30pm Writers'Talk Vancouver Art Gallery OCT 2 9 FRIDAY 8pm Judy Radul Contemporary Art Gallery OCT 30 SATURDAY Oct 15 Ann Hamilton Reception & Artist's Talk 8pm Ann Hamilton is internationally renowned for her ability to combine the sensory and the cerebral in her artwork. Presenting Ann Hamilton's work for the first time in Vancouver, this exhibition consists of video and several discrete sculptural objects, many of which have emerged from her large-scale installations and refer to the performative aspects of her work. 8pm Fri, Oct 15, Opening reception 6pm, Artist's talk 7:30pm Exhibition runs October 16, 1999 - January 23, 2000 Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby Street, 662-4700 Maya Love Dynamo Gallery OCT 31 SUNDAY Maya Love Dynamo Gallery NOV 4 THURSDAY 8pm Paul Wong Video In Studios NOV 5 FRIDAY 8pm 8pm Taste This grunt gallery Paul Wong Video In Studios NOV 6 SATURDAY 8pm Taste This grunt gallery Programming subject to change N A / 4 & 5 PaulWonV ReACTion Oct 27 Tanya Mars, Aiyyana Maracle, Todd Davis Writers' Talk Aiyyana Maracle will address the evolution of native performance in Vancouver and its importance to the development of contemporary First Nations' art. Aiyyana Maracle is a multi-disciplinary artist in mediums ranging from theatre and opera, through writing and performance to sculptural works. Tanya Mars will be addressing the role of performance art in Canada and the necessity in creating a Canadian mythology to counterbalance the historic absence of Canadians in writings on performance art. Tanya Mars is a performance artist and writer working in Toronto where she teaches at the Ontario College of Art. Todd Davis will be addressing performance work produced in the late 70's and early 80's that was characterized by its relationship to popular culture and the 'punk' sensibility. Davis will examine the work that was created then in relation to previous work highlighting the links and breaks in a 'tradition' of Vancouver performance. Todd Davis is a curator, writer and currently director of Open Space in Victoria. Wed, Oct 27, 7:30pm, Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby St, 662-4700, free N o v 5 & 6 Taste This Too Close to Fire VIDEO IN STUDIOS Taste This is a group of four performers, Zoe Eakle, Anna Camilleri, Ivan E. Coyote and guest member S. Lynn Phillips. They blend storytelling, music and performance to create a multi-media spoken word experience. They recently published Boys Like Her, (Press Gang Publishers) which won Forward Magazine's Book of the Year bronze medal. Taste This's Vancouver performances will kick off their third tour, entitled Too Close to Fire, which will take them down the West Coast and then across Canada. Taste This' choice of topics have been known to range from cross dressing to super heroes, and now, pyromania. Fri, Nov 5 & Sat, Nov 6, 8pm grunt gallery 116-350 E 2nd Ave 875-9516 Tickets $8 & $12 at the door — Oct 9 Kiss'nTell Borderline Disorderly 99 9 g Kiss'n Tell is a lesbian art collective whose new work, Borderline Disorderly, draws on their experiences as artists and activists to confront the complexity of making art as a queer Canadian in 1999. This show is about artistic process, censorship, the gulf between image and representation, perceptions of queers and artists, and an affirmation of pleasure. As a special bonus Kiss'n Tell will be presenting a short brand new piece featuring accordion music, country and western break-ups, world class lying and a dividing of the assets. Kiss'n Tell is Lizard Jones performer, writer and visual artist, Susan Stewart, photographer and inter-disciplinary artist, and Persimmon Blackbridge, sculptor, writer, performer and cleaning lady. H > 3 A A R BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTS COUNCIL Supported by the Province of British Columbia T S T H E CANADA C O U N C I L L E C O N S E I L DES A R T S FOR T H E ARTS DU CANADA SINCE I 9 5 7 DEPUIS I 9 5 7