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For LIVE, Martin Beauregard produced his performance 'Fireworks', using a slide projector and live sound effects. Beauregard's simulations fall flat, never reaching the needed climax in their fulfillment of his intention to wipe out…

Aiyyana Maracle prepares to smudge. Still from Aiyyana Maracle and DB Boyko's piece in the Performance Art Cabaret.

Helena Goldwater covers her mouth. Still from pucker by Helena Goldwater.

Persimmon Blackbridge, Lizard Jones, and Susan Stewart read their scripts. Still from Borderline Disorderly.

Bérangère Parizeau stands in a clown outfit, surrounded by audience members and someone holding up a ball. Still from I'll Show You Happiness by Bérangère Parizeau.

Lesbian art collective Kiss & Tell's Borderline Disorderly draws on their experiences as artists and activists to confront the complexity of making art as queer Canadians. This performance is about artistic process, censorship, the gulf…

A performer squats, spreading debris across the floor. Text saying, “The performance is in” can be seen on the wall. Still from 7 Degrees.

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…

Julianna raises her arms and opens her mouth while being tattooed on her leg. Still from Seamline by Julianna Barabas.

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…

Larry Krone and his band perform on stage at the Anza Club. Still from A Country & Western Jamboree by Larry Krone.

Video documentation of A Mile in My Moccasins by Kerriann Cardinal.

Chen and Michalofski will be gathering sound and smell information from locales around Vancouver. They will have a market stand presentation in the market where visitors can sample the audio-smell guides that result. These guides take them them…

Vancouver artist Sandra Lockwood is known for her strong, graceful, emotional performances. Lockwood presented a song/poem cycle based loosely on the life and work of astronomer/inventor Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687) and his wife Elizabeth as part…

Seated audience members and a standing videographer face Irene, Roi, Alistair, and Boris together at a table. Still from the Trauma and Endurance panel with Alistair MacLennan, Boris Nieslony, Roi Vaara, and moderator Irene Loughlin.

Christine Taylor's piece in the Performance Art Cabaret

Carellin Brooks' piece in the Performance Art Cabaret

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa as La Abortada holds a paintbrush and sits on a scaffold. Still from Sodomizing Diego Rivera by Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa.

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa as La Abortada sits on a scaffold in front of a painted face. Still from Sodomizing Diego Rivera by Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa.

A costumed participant with cigarettes. Still from The Crash by Andrew McCully.

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…

We step into the year 1929 and the big crash is looming ahead. We see him. perhaps mad in the surrounding whirlwind and we see her who shapes his destiny. The Players flit in and out of his mind, and as the paranoia grows does anyone know where to…

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…

Stephen Anthony performs with his hand over his heart. Still from Stephen Anthony's first piece in the Performance Art Cabaret.

Nathalie Derome sings into the microphone and plays a small keyboard. Still from Girouette-Weathercock.