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Over the line
Naked-with-yams stereotypes aside,
there's no denying performance-art audiences
are more tolerant of, er, diversity than other
arts attendees. They have to be: in some performances, the spectators end up spattered
with the art. Now fans of the genre get more
than a month—from Oct 1 to Nov 6—to bask
in the art form nobody's ever quite defined.
Local artists, writers and performers are all

BY FRANK PRENDERGAST

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He says that makes paying admission a little easier for the 12,000 bodies
drawn annually to huge venues—like
the Olympic Stadium,
He also says that corporate sponsors even signed on—but at least one,
American Airlines, parted company with US circuit parties after
reports of sex and drug use surfaced.
Continued on page 25
| HELENA GOLDWATER.

details, the book is nonetheless a valuable diary of two
years in the life of a number of unconventional lovers /And

appearing as part of Live at the End of the

in the spirit of their writings, the quartet's readings aren't

Century, a performance arts festival featuring

the usual one-sided affair; the authors have planned inter-

everything from video artist Thirza Cuthand in

active audience discussion on the topic of lesbian

her first live performance to New Zealand's

polyamory. As Merryfeather says, "There's always more

Satina Saturnina, who waxes poetic about her

stuff to learn. That book was written two and a half years

vibrator in Sector X. Best bets include Pucker,

ago. We're different n o w /

Helena Goldwater's meditation on the mouth,
the verbal stylings of Taste This (now with a

FIDELITY DISCUSSIONS
Oct 2 , 7 : 3 0 pm

new guest musician in S Lynn Phillips), and
the festival's Oct 1 taster cabaret at the

The. 6.Spot in Victoria
Oct 5, 7:30 pm
Women .in Print, 3566 W 4th
FIDELITY
by K Linda Kivi, Lyn Merryfeather, Joanne
Hetherington and Catherine Fisher

Vogue, which is a rare chance to hear Aiyyana

Maa P r e s s / $ 1 6

for free. Info on the festival lineup is available

Maracle and nine others from culture world
perform. If you're more cerebrally inclined,
the artist's talks at the Vancouver Art Gallery
Weds are a charmingly informal chance to listen to your favourite performer wax poetic—
at www.grunt.bc.ca/century/index.html or in
brochures around town.

September 30,1999 No1"60 Xtra West 1 5 "