LIVE

biennial of performance art

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A Collaboration by

The Vancouver Art Gallery, grunt gallery, FA,
Full Circle, Radix Theatre, Folly Gallery,
Western Front, Video In, Artspeak, Or Gallery,
Helen Pitt Gallery, Edgewise Electrolit Centre,
Access Gallery, IMAG, Gallery Gachet, Dynamo

OCTOBER 13 - NOVEMBER 30 2001

Welcome to the second installment of the LIVE Project: LIVE biennial of
performance art. LIVE enjoys the participation of many of Vancouver's most
exciting art institutions and represents the collaboration of many people. While
Live at the End of the Century focused on celebrating Vancouver's ongoing
performance activity the LIVE biennial of performance art turns the focus
outwards, featuring a host of Canadian and International artists.
LIVE like its predecessor is unique in scope and format. Most performance festivals
are produced over one or two weekends with several artists programmed per day.
Live... with its six week time-frame celebrates the solo performer. Its one-artist-aday format allows each artist to produce an in-depth work. Because each project
is curated within the host institution it allows us to see the breadth of current
performance art activity.
For the student LIVE offers an unprecedented range of performance, both local and
international. For everyone it is an opportunity to see work by both emerging and
senior artists. For people new to the medium, may I suggest the book published in
October 2000, Live at the End of the Century, which lays out, chronologically and
in essays, Vancouver's 35-year engagement with the medium.
And while, to the layman, performance art might not seem a burning issue in
Vancouver, I suggest you look to the wider performative element that permeates
so much current Vancouver work. Artists as diverse as Jeff Wall, Stan Douglas, Jin
Me Yoon, and Liawan all employ the performative within their production though
we would think of none as performance artists. It is this reality that keeps
performance firmly on the table in Vancouver. The readiness of so many
institutions to participate in LIVE brings together the strong curatorial expertise
that makes this event unique both locally and internationally.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the participating institutions and
individual artists that fuel LIVE. The curatorial co-operation we have received for
Live has been unprecedented and we thank all the curators who have participated
in this project. We would also like to thank The Vancouver Foundation and The
InterArts Section of Canada Council for their support. Finally, Live is the curatorial
vision of Brice Canyon who has been instrumental in the planning that brings forth
this event.

Glenn Alteen
grunt gallery

L E CONSEIL D
DU CANADA
DEPUIS I 9 5 7

VANCOUVER
FOUNDATION

GALLERY GACHET
88 East Cordova Street
604-687-2468

VANCOUVER ART
GALLERY

Fluid Sexuality Series
Curated by Irene Loughlin and
Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa

750 Hornby Street
604-662-4719
Saturday, October 13
8 to 10pm
Biennial Launch
Mondo Artie #6070
Glenn Lewis
A performance in a retrospective
format, inventing and telling tales of
performance in Vancouver from the
60's and 70's.This work, published in
the Live at the End of the Century
anthology, will be presented as a
multimedia performance with a cast
featuring old and new Vancouver
performance art faces.

VIDEO IN
1965 Main Street
604-872-8337
Saturday, October 13
10:30pm (Doors open at 10:00 pm)
Launch Afterparty
The Return of Talent Hut
Talent Hut, established in 1989, is
rearing its ugly head once more after
an extended run in hell. Mainstays MC
Jimmi Schmooz, Orlan Fortrel, Big Glory
(guitar) Hole, Ina Pavlovina, Jean Poole,
Boofka Putz, Countess Turnoff and new
recruits take you on a seedy tour of the
bottom end of show biz. With Special
Guests, the funny, sexy and visually
flamboyant Draggin' Angels.
Victoria
Stanton
FA3 at grunt
I gallery

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T H E CANADA C O U N C I L
FOR THE ARTS
SINCE I 9 5 7

BIENNIAL OPENING

Fluid Sexuality explores sexuality that
lives beyond constructions of gender,
sexual orientation descriptions, roleplaying and societal definitions of the
body, beauty and desire. Definitions
of sexuality need not be only limited
to the body, but include sexuality as
it exists in less tangible forms
- independent of human presence or
interaction.
Friday, October 19
8:30pm
Volt 2
Alvin Erasga Tolentino
Volt is "the electric body and its kinetic
charge, the language used to depict
acquisition - what attracts and repels
desire. A continuing fascination,
exploration, and re-invention of
identity, the past, present and future
self../7 Alvin Tolentino
Friday, October 19
9:00pm
Sodomizing Diego Rivera
Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa
A performance piece further exploring
the persona La Abortada, who
performed the previous piece "Western
Lard: Fall of the American Hamburger."
In this new piece, Ramirez-Figueroa
explores Freudian theories of sexuality
and modernist theories of abject
sexuality.
Lisa
Deanne
Smith
Gallery
Gachet

GALLERY GACHETcont.

Monday, October 22
7pm

G R U N T GALLERY

Friday, October 19
9:30pm

116-350 East 2nd Avenue
Mocosos Performance Video by Youth 604-875-9516
www.grunt.bc.ca
Curators Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa

bliss...
Lisa Deanne Smith

and Irene Loughlin (Efimeros
Performance Art Group)

bliss... creates a highly designed
environment in which the performer
and viewers relax, recline, and consume.
White on white on white, Smith promises
to be exquisitely soothing to the soul
and mind...

Mocosos is slang for youth in Latin
America. Young performance-video
artists (age 30 and under) are given
the opportunity to show their work.
Performance-video is a hybrid of
performance art and video art. It
borrows from each medium while at
the same time developing its own
distinct qualities. Videos will be screened
October 24 to 27,12 to 6pm.

Saturday, October 27
4pm
Vertigo
Irene Loughlin
Music by Gary Steeves

Saturday, October 20
8pm
reservoir
Rebecca Belmore
reservoir is a new durational work by
Rebecca Belmore. In it she will use
recycled jars to collect water and
stockpile it in the space. The reservoir
will remain in the gallery as an
installation for the following week.

La morue (Cod)
Diane Landry
"Using two record players in a DJ-like
manner, Diane Landry conducts a true
circle of casual objects: various kitchen
tools, toys, shoes, skates, for example,
randomly take their turn on the plates,
one after another. Caught in a kind of
merry-go-round, their daily routine is
'unsettled'; lit by different light sources
and spinning around, the objects
assume unreal proportions, almost
gigantic, and project a whole universe
of moving shadows on the wall." (Marie
Fraser) Accompanied by an installation
from November 9 to December 1.

Saturday, October 27
8pm
strangling my kitten/her mouth
in my mitten
kirn dawn
This is a loss of bodily control, of
bodily functions. She
experiences both repulsion and desire
simultaneously. She is
abject. She is outside of herself. Her
body lies dormant
beside her body being traumatized.

Nathalie Derome
FA3
at grunt gallery

I Draggin'

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Video In
Festival
Launch

8

Pm
j^g \n Strangers
[ ouise m oyes
Taking in Strangers is a show that
explores through oral history, physical
theatre, video and projected images
^ e s ' m ' l a r i t ' e s a n ( l connections between
the people of Newfoundland and
Quibec With text taken verbatim from
conversations, this show plays with
senses 0 f humour and place and
|00ks at how language - each uniquely
distinctive - reveals the identity of both,
A Mile in My Moccasins

Sunday, November 11
8pm

Irene Loughlin incorporates states of
grasping and hanging from a fire
escape in an off-site performance
located in a local alley of Canada's
poorest postal code. A memorial piece
for people who have died in the alley
and a testimonial to those who survive
against the odds.

Wednesday, November 28

Hester
Reeve
Folly
Gallery
at grunt
gallery

Kerriann C a r ( |i n a |

A chance for the audience to experience
with Cardinal the tender relationship
that she had with her grandmother who
taught her about her Metis heritage.
Lorena
Wolffer
Western
Front

THUNDERING WORD
HEARD AND
CONUNDRUM PRESS
at Cafe Montmartre
4362 Main Street (Main & 28th)

604-708-5021
www.thunderingwordheard.com
Sunday, November 25
9pm

FA3

FULL CIRCLE:
FIRST NATIONS
PERFORMANCE

at grunt gallery
116-350 East 2nd Avenue

604-683-0497
at grunt gallery
116-350 East 2nd Avenue

Thursday, November 29
8pm
A series of short works from the
Montreal performance festival FA?
Same line
Josee Tremblay

Vancouver book launch of
Impure: Reinventing the Word in Montreal An artist, curator and arts organizer
Writers: Vincent Tinguely
since 1989,Tremblay's curiosity has
and Victoria Stanton
drawn her to experiment with a
diversity of artistic forms (dance,
Thundering Word Heard, the weekly
theatre, video and visual arts) through
spoken word/music fusion open mic
performance and media arts.
series, presents the Vancouver launch of
Impure. Word-sters include Jen Lam,
Girouette-Weathercock
T. Paul Ste. Marie, Kedrick James, Justin
Nathalie Derome
McGrail, Tanya Evanson, Steve Duncan,
Louise Dubreuil, Vincent Tinguely,
They say that women have problems
Nathalie Derome, and Victoria Stanton.
with geography (direction). In my case
Hosted by T. Paul Ste Marie.
it is true. I guess it is because we have
NO COVER-hat will be passed
also problems with history (direction).
So: little stories, little songs, little doubts
from the St-Lawrence Valley. A low-tech
performance.
EYEIN'HAND, FEELIN'BEAT
Louise Dubreuil
Thinking feelings & feeling thoughts/
Bridging minds to heartlands/Together
in darkness/We mind the gap.
(If) not for me (If) not for you
Victoria Stanton
a romp through the having and then
not having of something someone
wanted and then couldn't have
anymore, and then decided didn't need
it in the first place, maybe.
Communitea
Gallery
Gachet
Festival
Closing
Louise
FA3 at grunt gallery

Saturday, November 24
8pm
november rain and all
marie elements, margo kane, zachery
longboy, archer pechawis
a time to gather around the burning
fire/to feed the fire and keep the fire
burning/to feed the spirit and keep the
fire burning/to feed the moment and
keep the fire burning
site specific/site of the performance/
not restricted to the normal
Marie Baker
IMAG at grunt gallery

ACCESS ARTIST RUN
CENTRE
206 Carroll Street
604-689-2907
Sunday, October 14
4:30pm
Total Ass
Erin Stanley and Corin Sworn
Giant food, genetically modified
organisms, Beckett and Marx (that's the
brothers, not Karl) combine in fusion
cooking's maddest combo yet. Slapstick
comedy is mutilated and disemboweled
and now the organs are taking over.
What happens when the costumes and
props usurp the performative activity?
Friday, November 2
9:30pm
Yellow Diablo
David Yonge "yellowboy"
This performance is equal parts
professional wrestling and sound
assault. The costume (as well as some of
the theatrics) is a replica of a 1970's
Mexican wrestler. The Yellow Diablo
appears in costume preparing for a
match and wired with 15 microphones.
Diablo's opponents are inanimate
household objects that could not fight
back even if they wanted to.

Radix Theatre & I Smell a Rat Productions

FOLLY GALLERY (UK)

HELEN PITT GALLERY

WESTERN FRONT

OR GALLERY

at grunt gallery
116-350 East 2nd Avenue

882 Homer Street
604-681-6740

Wednesday, October 31
6:30pm

Thursday, October 25
8pm

303 East 8th Avenue
604-876-9343
www.front.bc.ca

604-683-7395
at The Anza Club
3 West 8th Avenue

2001 a space odyssey - an excavation
of truth (work in progress)
Hester Reeve (UK)

Human 5
HUMAN 5

November 9 and 10
9pm

Friday, November 9
8pm

Catwalk Envy:
A Subverted Runway Show
Lorena Wolffer

A Country & Western Jamboree
Larry Krone & Guests (New York)

A live performance piece (durational about 3 hours and carried out in
isolation) performed by Hester Reeve ir
England but projected into a prepared
location in Vancouver for LIVE 2001. The
projected performance will present the
spectator with the virtual artist's body
interacting with concrete physical space
but from a different dimension and
location.

A live large-scale mixed media
installation will be produced by
anonymous collaborators HUMAN 5.
The event is process-based and will
bring to light diversity within practices
alive in the public realm.

Mark your calendar for a performance
art fashion show of local artists curated
by Mexican performance artist Lorena
Wolffer. As well as creating a unique
group show, Wolffer will be performing
her own piece which critiques the effect
of the North American Free Trade
Agreement on the women of Mexico.

Rodney Graham, Michael Turner and
Judy Radul (Vancouver)

Friday, November 16
8pm
Empire and Au pair
Robert Ashley - spoken word opera
. Singers: Jacqueline Humbert
and Robert Ashley (U.S.)
Live mixing and sound processing:
Tom Hamilton

Zachery Longboy

Margo Kane

I

Marie Clements

Full Circle at grunt gallery

Robert Ashley
Western Front

Empire is an allegory about the
establishment of one of the largest
corporations in the world. Au Pair
explores the often hilarious relationships
of adventure-seeking childcare workers
from Europe with their affluent
American employers
Tickets $15/$12
A screening of Robert Ashley's works
will be shown at Pacific Cinematheque
Monday November 12 at 7:30pm.
604-688-3456 www.cinematheque.bc.ca

kim dawn
Gallery Gachet

I

Diane
Landry
grunt
gallery

L I V E

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6
7:30PM

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8

biennial of performance art

7:30PM
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13 BIENNIAL LAUNCH
8-10PM

Lewis Mondo Artie #6070 Vancouver Art Gallery

10:30PM

Launch Afterparty The Return of Talent Hut Video In

bissett, Tepexcuintle, Wilson Videopoem Festival Cabaret
Pacific Cinematheque (Edgewise Electrolit Centre)

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9
,

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14
4:30PM

Vidaver Counter-Interpellation SFU Harbour Centre (Artspeak Gallery)

I

Stanley/Sworn fo/a/yjss Access Artist Run Centre

8PM

A Country & Western... Anza Club (Or Gallery)

9PM

Wolffer Catwalk Envy... Western Front

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10
9PM

Wolffer Catwalk Envy... Western Front

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11

8:30PM

Tolentino Ifo//2 Gallery Gachet

8PM

9PM

Ramirez-Figueroa Sodomizing Diego Rivera Gallery Gachet

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12

9:30PM

Smith bliss... Gallery Gachet

7:30PM

Landry La morue grunt gallery

Ashley Screening Pacific Cinematheque (Western Front)

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2 0

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16

8PM

8PM

Belmore reservoir grunt gallery

Ashley Empire & Au pair Western Front

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17

2PM

8:30PM

Radix Theatre The Sniffy the Rat... Granville Island

relive Video screening Video In

MONDAY, OCTOBER 2 2

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2 2

7PM

8PM

Ramirez-Figeroa/Loughlin Mocosos... Gallery Gachet
Video screenings October 24-27,12-6pm

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2 3

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2 3
7:30PM

8PM

Randolph To be announced SFU Harbour Centre (Artspeak Gallery)

HUMAN 5 Helen Pitt Gallery

9PM

LIMINAL Objects for the Emancipated Consumer Dynamo

8PM

9PM

LIMINAL Objects for the Emancipated Consumer Dynamo

Loughlin Vertigo Gallery Gachet

6PM

LIMINAL Objects for the Emancipated Consumer Dynamo

8PM

dawn strangling my kitten... Gallery Gachet

I

8PM

8PM

Butler The honey's not... SFU Harbour Centre (Artspeak Gallery)

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31
6:30PM

Yonge Yellow Diablo Access Artist Run Centre

Tremblay Same line
Stanton (If) not for me (If) not for you
Derome Girouette-Weathercock
Dubreuil EYEIN'HAND, EEELIH'BEAT grunt gallery (FA3)

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3 0 BIENNIAL CLOSE

Reeve 2001 a space odyssey... grunt gallery (Folly Gallery)

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2
| 9:30PM

Moyes Taking in Strangers grunt gallery
Cardinal A Mile in My Moccasins grunt gallery

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2 9

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3 0
7:30PM

Tinguely/Stanton Impure... Book launch Cafe Montmartre
Thundering Word Heard and Conundrum Press

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2 8

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2 7
4PM

elements, kane, longboy pechawis november rain and all
grunt gallery (Full Circle: First Nations Performance)

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2 5

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2 6
9PM

Baker Kyoti Bites grunt gallery (IMAG)

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2 4

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2 5
8PM

re'.live Panel Video In

|

7PM

Communitea: A Portrait of Tea... Gallery Gachet

10PM

Chappelle Tinsel & Cream...again? Western Front

VIDEO IN

IMAG

1965 Main Street
604-872-8337

604-871-0173
at grunt gallery
116-350 East 2nd Avenue

Saturday, November 17
8:30pm
re: live
Video Screening
curated by Andrew Power and Jen Weih
re: live is a two part event combining a
video screening and a subsequent panel
discussion, both addressing the historical
and contemporary relationship between
performance and video art. Performance
and video find a common legacy
somewhere in the confluence of the
Happening and Porta-pack in the late
sixties. Since then the video and
performance arts have been participating
in a process of cross-fertilization, as
performance works often persist
through video documentation, and video
- with its persistent affinity for the real routinely appropriates the aesthetics of
documentation.

RADIX THEATRE
AND I SMELL A RAT
PRODUCTIONS

ARTSPEAK GALLERY

604-254-0707

604-688-0051
at SFU Harbour Centre Fletcher
Challenge Theatre

Friday, November 23
8pm

Pick up and drop off in front of the Arts
Club Theatre on Granville Island

Syntax errors:
a series of performed lectures

Kyoti Bites
Marie Baker

Sunday, October 21
2pm

A new multimedia performance by a
Vancouver based writer celebrates the
coyotrix - the continuing presence of the
coyote in urban life.

The Sniffy the Rat 10th Anniversary
Bus Tour
Written by Andrew Laurenson and
your host Ian Ross McDonald
music by Ron Samworth

Syntax errors are the symbols and
letters produced by technology when
given the task of translating data from
one representational form to another.
This series of three 'performed lectures',
investigates the relationship between
authoritative language, presentation
technologies and performance art.

"For a little while, the world cared
about a rat..."
Travel on a luxury tour bus for an
in-depth examination of the story
behind Vancouver's most famous
rodent. Visit the sites that made the
Sniffy story happen, watch the video,
meet the people! Learn about Sniffy's
dramatic rescue and his ultimate fate.
$19.90 + GST

Thursday, November 22
8pm
re: live
Panel
Judy Radul, Warren Arcan, Meesoo Lee,
Tagny Duff
facilitator Randy Lee Cutler
curated by Andrew Power and Jen Weih

Glenn Lewis
Vancouver Art Gallery
Festival Launch

reilive wants to address the evolving
relations of these mediums through a
variety of questions: What is the value
of the ephemeral? Has the performer's
in-situ audience become a spectacle for
the remote viewer? Has the camera
eclipsed the audience? Are we now
privileged to witness the dissolution
between mediums as everything
becomes 'media'? What is gained
through mediation and what is lost?
Louise Moyes
grunt gallery

Co sponsored by Simon Fraser University's School
For the Contemporary Arts.
Thanks to the BC Arts Council.

Tuesday, October 23
7:30pm
Syntax errors: To Be Announced
Jeanne Randolph
Jeanne Randolph, a psychoanalyst and
writer of highly inventive visual arts
criticism will directly address the
performative body of the technologically
enhanced lecturer in her syntax errors
presentation. Randolph's lectures and
presentations draw upon current
research interests as evident in articles
such as Ambiguity and the Technological
Object, Technology and the Meaningful
Body and Why Stoics Box.

ARTSPEAK GALLERY cont.
Tuesday, October 3 0
7:30pm
Syntax errors: The honey's not far
from the sting
Margot Leigh Butler
As figures, bees are efficient, industrious,
mobile, manageable and profitable
workers; they make honey and
pollinate the flora, diligently crossing
between GM and non-GM crops, and, in
the process, they are themselves being
modified, contaminated, mutated - and
are we? This performance uses an
incitement to swarm from a 17th century musical score for voice, slides, and
spoken and sung texts.
Tuesday, November 6
7:30pm

DYNAMO
142 West Hastings Street
604-602-9005
Thursday October 25 9pm
Friday October 26 9pm
Saturday October 2 7 6pm
Objects for the Emancipated Consumer
UMINAL1U.S.)
Dynamo presents LIMINAL in its original
production, Objects for the Emancipated
Consumer, a multimedia spy drama and
interactive performance and installation.
Six characters search for answers to an
ambiguous series of past, present and
future crimes in a fictitious international
airport city. Audience members activate
sound, video and other media in the
space by scanning bar coded objects at
a central "duty free" counter.

EDGEWISE ELECTROLIT
CENTRE

BIENNIAL CLOSING

at the Pacific Cinematheque
1131 Howe Street
604-782-2205
www.edgewisecafe.org

GALLERY GACHET

Thursday, November 8
7:30pm
Third Annual Vancouver Videopoem
Festival Cabaret
bill bissett, Alice Tepexcuintle
and Sheri-D Wilson
Hosted by the Edgewise Electrolit Centre
and Pacific Cinematheque
November 8th to 12th
This year's Videopoem Festival includes
a videopoetry workshop with New York
poet and performance artist Adeena
Karasick, videopoem screenings and a
performance poetry/multimedia
cabaret.

Syntax errors: Counter-Interpellation
Aaron Vidaver
Aaron Vidaver is a writer and archivist.
Drawing upon his archival work for
cultural organizations as well as his
previous interventions in public space,
Vidaver builds a performed lecture
addressing juridical selfhood and
linguistic dissent. Counter-Interpellation
uses a recitation of his report card
evaluations, beginning in kindergarten
and extending through to his university
studies to punctuate a discussion of
subjection in Althusser's theory of
interpellation.

88 East Cordova Street
604-687-2468
Friday, November 30
7pm
Communitea: A Portrait of Tea in
the Community
hosted by Bryan Mulvihill (aka Trolley
Bus) and World Tea Party
Communitea features a video-viewing
of past tea performances occurring in
the development of this piece in the
Downtown Eastside. Bryan Mulvihill will
serve tea in this closing performance
art event of the LIVE biennial of
performance art in Vancouver.

WESTERN FRONT
303 East 8th Avenue
604-876-9343
www.front.bc.ca
Friday, November 30
10pm sharp

Irene Loughlin
Gallery Gachet

David Yonge
Access Artist Run Centre

Josee
Tremblay
FA3
at grunt
gallery

Tinsel & Cream...again?
produced by Shawn Chappelle
The now infamous cabaret makes a
reappearance for the festival closing.
A parting night that bends, cuts and
folds performance. Victoria Singh, Joelle
Ciona, Joel Taylor and Tricia Middleton,
Andrew Dadson, Lyle Neff, and Annthea
Whittaker. Cloud ambience by Elizabeth
Zvonar, planes by Rebecca Watt and
Onya Hogan-Finlay. Lastly Dylan Cree's
16m film "vulgar...incomplete 'n yet
whole" and the new Chicago-like sounds
of the band "Secret 3!
Tinsel
& Cream
Western
Front
Festival
Closing

LIVE BIENNIAL
PERFORMER
BIOGRAPHIES

Louise Dubreuil is a Montreal based
interdisciplinary feminist artist working
in visual and performance art.

Robert Ashley is known for his
work in new forms of opera and
interdisciplinary projects. His unique
speech-style singing, a precursor to rap
and hip hop, has developed over the
creation of operas dating back to the
1960s.

Rodney Graham has exhibited widely
in North America and Europe, including
Documenta IX, 1992, and the Biennale
of Venice, 1993, where he represented
Canada.

Marie Baker is an Anishnabe writer.
Her upcoming book is Blueberry Canoe.
Rebecca Belmore, an Anishinabekwe
from Northwestern Ontario, has shown
installations and performances since
1988 around the world.
bill bissett has remained at the cutting
edge of poetics and performance works
for 30 years.
Margot Leigh Butler is a visual artist
and writer whose 'book installations'
have been published in The Virtual
Embodied (Routledge 1998), WestCoast
Line and Capilano Review.
Kerriann Cardinal is an emerging
Vancouver performance artist with a
background in physical theatre.
Marie Clements has been active as a
performer and playwright in theatres
across Canada and the United States.
kirn dawn's recent exhibition, where
her tongue wept, was exhibited in June
at the Western Front. She has recently
been published in writing aloud and cv2.
Nathalie Derome is an interdisciplinary
artist from Montreal working since
1983. She always seeks to re-question
codes of representation and prioritizes
direct contact with the audience.
The Draggin' Angels - these queer
Asian drag queens give gender-bending
an additional twisL.dykes in drag!
Funny, sexy and visually flamboyant.

Human 5 are two rural guys working
in the urban landscape around
Vancouver and beyond through their
unique visual style. Their art is about
spontaneity and commentary.
Margo Kane, well-known CreeSaulteaux performing artist, is the
founder and artistic director of Full
Circle: First Nations Performance.
Larry Krone is the Marlboro man of
the gallery set. This New York artist
produces work in mixed media and
performance.
Diane Landry lives and works in
Quebec City. Since 1987, she has
performed and exhibited in Canada
as well as the United States, Mexico,
France, Austria and Germany.
Glenn Lewis is one of the first
Canadian artists to create performance
works in the late 60's. He has taught at
UBC, and was a founding member of
Intermedia and the Western Front.
LIMINAL is an ensemble of artists
from Oregon, collaborating through live
performance to discover new disciplines
that merge theatre, the fine arts, and
multimedia technologies.
Zachery Cameron Longboy is a
Sayisi Dene, video/performance and
visual artist from Churchill, Manitoba.
Longboy is recognized for his hybrid
investigations of gender and First
Nations identity.

Irene Loughlin is an Irish-Canadian
interdisciplinary artist who works
with themes of reclamation, and the
aesthetics and politics of regeneration.
Louise Moyes performs docu-dances:
bilingual multi-disciplinary shows
created from interviews. Growing up a
Newfoundlander and later moving to
Quebec, she developed a fascination for
accents, stories, and personal as well as
contrasting world views.
Archer Pechawis is a media-integrated
performing artist, New Media artist
and curator. He has been creating solo
performance works since 1988.
Judy Radul is an interdisciplinary
artist who works in performance, video,
photography and installation. Radul
lives in Vancouver and currently is
teaching at SFU.
Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa is a
multi-disciplinary artist creating work in
performance art, video and painting. He
explores issues of colonialism, First
Nations7 (Mayan) identity, and power
dynamics (through the politics of food
production and consumption).
Jeanne Randolph has participated in
a wide range of photographic and new
media projects, such as Stan Denniston's
internet project Videoscopia curated by
Jorge Marzos (Barcelona), Virtual
Metropolis, and as a 'barfly' in Vera
Frenkel's Body Missing.
Hester Reeve is a visual artist and
educator with a broad experience of
leading projects, developing workshops
and professional teaching. Her specialization is in performance art, visual art
and nature/philosophical thought.
Lisa Deanne Smith is a Toronto-based
artist working in performance,
installation, writing and photography.
She has been in numerous exhibitions

both in Canada and abroad including
solo exhibitions in Halifax, Hamburg,
New York, and Toronto. She is also the
Director of Programming at YYZ Artists'
Outlet, Toronto.
The Sniffy collaborative team: Andrew
Laurenson is an actor, writer and video
maker and Co-Artistic Director of Radix
Theatre. Ian Ross McDonald is an
actor and writer. Ron Samworth is
a jazz guitarist and composer, and
Co-Artistic Director of Talking Pictures.
Victoria Stanton is a text-based
multidisciplinary artist who works both
solo and collaboratively. Along with
Vincent Tinguely, she has compiled a
book about spoken word practices titled
Impure: Re-inventing the Word in
Montreal (Conundrum Press, 2001).
Talent Hut is a performance group
producing cabaret work since the late
1980s and includes David Roundell,
Graham, Kate Hammett-Vaughan,
Micheal Vonn, Ron Samworth and
Stephen Anthony among others in
various and sundry personas and
characters.
Alice Tepexcuintle is an underground
Vancouver based poet. She has recently
completed The Year of the Mirror Murders,
a film noir murder mystery written in
poetry.
Josee Tremblay has been working as
an artist, curator and arts organizer
since 1989. She has organised her own
performance work festival, FA3
(Montreal, October 1999, May 2001).
Alvin Tolentino is a Philippine-born
Canadian choreographer and
performance artist, dancer, teacher, and
designer. He is a prolific and prominent
figure in Vancouver's contemporary
dance scene.

Michael Turner's published work
includes Company Town, Hard Core
Logo, Kingsway, and American Whiskey
Bar.
Aaron Vidaver edits the Documents in
Poetics series for the Friends of Runcible
Mountain and is an associate of the
Centre for Contemporary Writing. He is
currently working on Unentitled, a long
poem, and A Field Guide to Feral
Ornaments.
Sheri-D Wilson is an internationally
recognized artist known for her
innovative and dramatic performance
style. She has published two books of
poetry: Bull Whip and Lambs Wool
(Petarade Press) and Swerve (Arsenal
Pulp Press).
Lorena Wolffer (Mexico City)
is one of Mexico's leading artists and
cultural activists. She has presented her
work in galleries, museums, theatres
and alternative spaces in the United
States, Canada, Spain, France, Ireland
and Mexico.
World Tea Party is a continually
evolving "fete eternelle" developing
through dialogue among people and
cultures around the world. First
manifested in 1993, it has evolved in
a myriad of activities that range from
the simple gathering of a few people
sharing a brief moment in time, to
months-long extravaganzas.
David Yonge (a.k.a yellowboy), a
recent graduate of ECIAD, is interested
in multidisciplinary performance art.
Past events have included Peculiar Night
at the Cinema, a Rock & Roll Carnival
and Variety Show, a B.Y.O Lobster
cook-off and karaoke evening.

Alvin
Tolentino
Gallery
Gachet

No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,
So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet

For many people performance art is
strongly associated with the presence of
the artist in the work, and if not the
artist him/herself, then another body or
two standing in his or her place. But,
while the body is still essential in a lot
of performance art, it is no longer
always the case. As artists continue to
use new and existing technologies, the
placement of the body/presence of the
artist as central to performance has
become less certain. Time remains the
constant ingredient.
Throughout history, societies have put
aside specific moments in time for
performance events. Evolving from
public rituals and religious ceremonies
into spectacle and entertainment, live
performance has long been accorded its
share of quality time. The actions of
others have a seemingly endless ability
to fascinate. Performance art draws on
this desire to pass the time watching
someone else doing something.
Time is that coordinate the value of
which defines causality. According to
physics, time is a dimension in space,
the fourth dimension. Things changing,
right down to a fraction of a picosecond,
measures time. And although it can be
measured, its speed is varying; time can
fly, drag or simply run out. It is a very
powerful medium to work with as a
material element in art. One might say
it is a medium of 'precious moments'.
By extension, it is the moment shared
between the artist and the audience,
the experience that is the substance of
performance. The relationship between
the exhibitionist and the voyeur is
regulated by the passing seconds, the
duration of the piece. The artist retains
control over the work by setting the
limits on the time spent, the time of
engagement. The audience, by virtue of
attending a performance, has agreed to
this arrangement and places its time in

the hands of the artist. Together they
share an experience of time, of things
changing.
Unlike other time-based arts, like
film and video, the time spent in a
performance is of a singular nature.
There can be no replay, freeze frame,
or pause to grab a snack from the
kitchen. Once the thing is over there
remains only remnants and memories
and documentation. A performance can
be repeated but it would be next to
impossible to perfectly replicate both
the artist's actions and the audience's
response.
How the artist fills the time is another
matter. There are as many styles of
performance as there are artists making
work. Performance can last as long as it
takes to walk the Great Wall of China
or be as fleeting as a burst of flame.
It can be visually minimal or wildly
extravagant, a long monologue or a
wordless gesture. All traditions of
performing are drawn upon, from
theatre and dance to story telling and
daily rituals. As well performance draws
on all manner of earthly concerns, from
pure aesthetics to social critique.
There is little agreement on what
actually constitutes 'performance art'
but to paraphrase Vito Acconci, as far
as I'm concerned if someone says it's
performance art then it's performance
art. What constitutes performance is in
the end the artists' intentions. There is
a temptation today to collapse
performance with 'the performative' the
notion that we all, to one degree or
another, are performing roles in our day
to day lives and actions. This may be
true, in which case Shakespeare was
right. The world is a stage and we're all
performing. Performance artists just like
to be looked at, and audiences like to
look. It's time well spent.
Brice Canyon

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