Collaborative work by Alastair MacLennan, Boris Nieslony, and Roi Vaara for Black Market International.

"Take that paint!! Put it there!! You can do it!! Cause you care!!" After quitting art school, Gifford committed to a year-long regimen of physical training for cheerleading. She performs her "opening cheers" designed to unite…

This durational performance explores notions of fluidity in identity through a series of costumes, wigs, and make-up. Each costume or 'persona' of popular housewives (both real and fictional) was documented and produced as a series of…

Roi Vaara has been most active in Finland, becoming one of the country's most internationally recognized performance artists. His work since 1982 emphasizes an aesthetic discourse between the artwork and its specific place or situation.

Two performances occurred simultaneously in adjoining rooms. Each performance reflects the disparate bodies of work that the two artists pursue separately. When they interface with each other (either purposefully or accidentally) a third performance…

Lezli Rubin-Kunda spent five days wandering Vancouver, collecting plant materials, debris, and assorted objects: a process of playing and exploring the intertwining of the magnificent and the mundane, from primal forest to parking lots. After…

This 3 hour performance is based on a comedian's 5 minute solo routine taken from a late night talk show. All three artists wore identical clothing and repeating the monologues simultaneously including gestures, emotional expressions, and…

Part drive-in theatre, part live radio show, 'Half-a-Tank' took place in a large parking lot at 1st Avenue and Ontario Street, where audience members, seated inside their cars, parked in a large circle facing inward. Inside the circle, a…

In A Simple Truth, Belmore discusses her process of creating work through a narrative involving her connection to the suicide of a student with whom she worked with during a residency. During the performance, she lies down while being surrounded by…

Matching outfits and brightly coloured dance shoes were Norma's uniform for this performance that emphasized and undermined the boundaries that separate audience and performer. This performance was presented by Access Gallery.

Parizeau dedicates her work to freedom and the demystification of enlightenment. In this piece she represents the dream state and explores themes of death and rebirth symbolically through the psychological hysteria of a clown. This piece unfolds…

This performance is inspired by the book "Empire" by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt with its philosophical and political propositions of shifting configurations of racism. However, it is clear that racism has not receded but actually…

Randy and Berenicci, dressed as nomadic travelers, appear to float in False Creek on a sculpture engulfed in flames. From the land, viewers used an optically assisted telescope to create the illusion of the performers waling endlessly through the…

The performance group One Night Only work by taking over alternate or empty spaces to create site-specific installation work in dialogue with the form and function of the space. Six artists inhabited the space of the Bartlett Exhibition and…

Barabas illustrates the body as a vessel for energy, essence, and idea. A tattoo excavates the seamline between the front and back of the artist's body. The artist asks, what is the connection? what do we contain? and what is the nature of the…

Reality is mirrored through video feeds that have real guests dining with virtual ones in this intimate and eerie experience. Video guests address real guests in arbitrary conversations as if they were able to see them. Guests can respond to the…

Over the first two weeks of November, Forkert convened small groups of participants to perform everyday activities together in public and private spaces, drawing attention to the experience of time and the possibilities of spending time together. At…

A three-day online performance exchange between Sydney, Australia, Vancouver, Canada, and Lancaster, UK. Chiasma presented live streams of Léa Donnan's Adult Female, Rebecca Belmore's Tent City, and Hester Reeve's The British Umpire…

The hole of the female genital organs may appear in another part of the body, the penis as a stiffness or as a piece of wood somewhere else. The artist takes on the role of patient and survivor of psychaitry, and attempts to convey the experience of…

The opening reception for Peter Conlin's Freedom, a performative exhibition that ran for for the following two weeks. Conlin used the gallery as a studio to create installations in an improvisational way, setting up several different zones to…

Alastair MacLennan is knowns for long durational performances with concerns of ethic, religious/political bigotry, tolerance, social improvement, death, mutation, and transformation. His performance for LIVE 2003, Rove Over, was part of Black Market…

"Picnic" sites were chosen for their potential areas of leisure as well as their unique and sometimes awkward placement in the city. Pedestrians were encouraged to join and participate in these site-specific picnics. This closing reception…

Hungry Ghosts is a five channel video installation that features a mix of Wong's past video and performance works touching on the recurring subject of death. The video installation provides an ephemeral form where interdisciplinary elements…

'Barbed Wire' is McMurry's autobiographical performance that will challenge our perceptions and emotions. We witness him in states of physical danger as he performs defiant and dangerous activities that young boys specifically engage…

Boris Nieslony has worked in performance art since the 1970's and is the founder of Black Market International. He works extensively around the world organizing and networking performance art activity.