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A series of short works from the Montreal performance festival FA3, performed in sequence at grunt gallery.
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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…
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A live durational performance piece carried out in isolation performed by Hester Reeve in England but projected into a prepared location at grunt gallery in Vancouver for LIVE 2001. The projected performance presents the spectator with the virtual…
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Communitea features a video-viewing of past tea performances occurring in the development of this piece in at Gallery Gachet in the Downtown Eastside. Bryan Mulvihill will serve tea in this closing performance art event of the LIVE Biennial of…
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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..." -…
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Taking in Strangers is a show that explores through oral history, physical, theatre, video, and projected images, the similarities and connections between the people of Newfoundland and Québec. With text taken verbatim from conversations, this show…
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A multimedia performance by Vancouver based Anishinabe writer Marie Annharte Baker celebrating the coyotrix - the continuing presence of the coyote in urban life. Presented by IMAG.
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Reservoir was a durational work by Rebecca Belmore. The artist used recycled jars to collect water and stockpiled it in the space. The reservoir remained in grunt gallery as an installation for a week following the performance.
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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…
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A performance art fashion show of local artists curated by Mexican performance artist Lorena Wolffer and produced by Lori Weidenhammer. As well as creating a unique group show, Wolffer will be performing her own piece which critiques the effect of…
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Dynamo presented Liminal's original production, Objects for the Emancipated Consumer, a multimedia spy drama and interactive performance and installation. Six characters searched for answers to an ambiguous series of past, present, and future…
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Thundering Word Heard, the weekly spoken word/music fusion open mic series, presented the Vancouver book launch of 'Impure: Reinventing the Word: The Theory, Practice, and Oral History of 'Spoken Word' in Montreal'. Word-sters…
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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…
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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. This performance was part of the…
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A chance for the audience to experience with Cardinal the tender relationship that she had with her grandmother who taught her about her Métis heritage. This performance was presented by grunt gallery.
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In Flower Girl, Lisa Deanne Smith created an interactive performance piece wearing a costume incorporating fresh flowers. Standing on a pedestal, Smith spoke about her desires then walked through the audience and surrounding neighbourhood asking…
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A live large-scale mixed media installation was produced by anonymous collaborators HUMAN 5. The event is process-based and will bring to light diversity within practices alive in the public realm. Presented by the Helen Pitt Gallery, now known as…
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"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…
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A performance in a retrospective format, inventing and telling tales of performance in Vancouver from the 60's and 70's. Featuring an ensemble cast made up of a who's who of Vancouver performance artists, this multimedia project was…
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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, Ramírez-Figueroa explores Freudian theories of sexuality and modernist…
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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. A screening…
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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-…