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Justin McGrail holds up their arms, on stage, in front of the audience. Still from Impure: Reinventing the Word: The Theory, Practice, and Oral History of 'Spoken Word' in Montreal with writers Vincent Tinguely and Victoria Stanton.

People gather on the dock at Granville Island. Still from The Seven Sauces by Millie Chen and Evelyn Von Michalofski.

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

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…

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…

Sector X: the hot new work by New Zealand fetish/punk artist Satina Saturnina (Victoria Singh with Derek Champion and Chris Swain). A 45 minute autoerotic journey in two sexual stages, symbolizing mental states associated with the orgasmic process.…

Marginalia is a performance and installation work by Dragu and Hall that began in February-March of 2004 during their Vasistas' residency at Theatre La Chapelle in Montreal. Since then they have been extremely busy exchanging email/snail mail…

Lezli sits cross-legged on the floor, arranging found objects, while video documentation of her performance from the past 5 days screens in the background. Still from Intimate Investigations by Lezli Rubin-Kunda.

A participant raises an audio-smell guide to their nose. Still from The Seven Sauces by Millie Chen and Evelyn Von Michalofski.

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…

Masked performer stands in an alcove at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Still from Mondo Artie Episode #6070 by Glenn Lewis.

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…

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…

Mo and another participant stand on either side of a person in a chair with a gagged mouth. The words “Imperial Racism” are projected onto the wall. Still from Racism in Empire by Mo Sa'lemy.

Lizard Jones reads from a script at the microphone, surrounded by Kate Craig, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Rebecca Belmore, and Glenn Lewis. Still from Mondo Artie Episode #6070 by Glenn Lewis.

Video still of Marlene Madison projected during the performance. Still from Little Miss Mira.

Video still of Marlene Madison projected during the performance. Still from Little Miss Mira.

Michael Turner and Judy Radul perform on stage at the Anza Club. Still from A Country & Western Jamboree by Larry Krone.

Projection of Fiona Bowie accompanying Marlene Madison's live performance. Still from Little Miss Mira.

Informed by popular culture and situated in contemporary cultural issues, Marlene Madison's Mira investigates multiple performance gestures and takes a humorous look at the phenomenon of cults - from psychoanalysis to those which more subtly…

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…

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…

Rehearsal is part of an ongoing investigation on the conditions which surround "performance". The performance event accompanies a two week installation that attempts to activate the gallery space, blurring lines between performance and non…

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…

Wireless Bodies was performed as part of ALA's Havana Gallery Series and was curated by Adad Hannah. The overarching theme of this performance is the wireless body - the body as appropriated and inserted into a set of media determined…