Blue Lodge was performed as part of ALA's Havana Gallery series and was curated by Archer Pechawis. Also known as A Little Piece of Unity, this performance is an unconventional multi-media storytelling that recorded and reflected on aspects of…

Lori Blondeau's Bleached takes a humorous and poignant look at Indigenous family life, identity, whiteness, and discrimination framed as the familiar chatty dialogue at a salon or home haircare session. This performance was curated by Lynn Hill…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

Taste This, a group of four performers who blend storytelling, music, and performance to create a multi-media spoken word experience, has been known to take on topics ranging from cross dressing to super heroes, and now, pyromania. Too Close to Fire…

This event brings a fresh approach and current elements of urban youth culture into the dialogue of spectatorship and performance. The 1990s saw an explosion of technologized culture. Turntablism, music producers/arrangers, video, and multimedia…

This piece is a compilation of four solos. The image and message of Mary Magdalene is portrayed from four historical viewpoints: the medieval, the Elizabethan, the turn of the Twentieth Century, and the modern. The challenge of uniting the physical…

Re-Act was a two night retrospective of live art by Paul Wong, taking the form of a live multimedia presentation including video projects and multi-monitors, live video mixing, musicians, audio, lighting, movement, and theatrics, all directed live…

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…

This collection contains objects of general relevance to LIVE at the End of the Century 1999, including promotional materials, listings, and articles.

Alice was performed as part of ALA's Havana Gallery series and was curated by Lynn Hill. A monologue rich with moments of reflection and humour, Thirza Cuthand's Alice examines survival, visibility, and intersecting Queer and Indigenous…

Ablakela, meaning 'calm' in the Lakota language, is a performance work by Dana Claxton, accompanied by Peyote Singers Johnny Mike and Verdell Primeaux of The Native American Church. The performance employs a large video projection of…

The Performance Art Cabaret at the Vogue Theatre was the kickoff event for LIVE at the End of the Century, the first LIVE Biennial of Performance Art. Organized by Glenn Alteen and Brice Canyon, this event continued a tradition of cabaret…

The Performance Network Symposium brought together curators from across Canada to develop and explore networking and exchange opportunities in the performance art sector via three days of attending LIVE events and discussions for participants,…

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…

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…

A joint production of Western Front and grunt gallery, this fundraiser featured performance and video documentation, a live performance by Velveeta Krisp and an auction of performance props and related artworks.

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…

Accompanying an exhibit at Artspeak of the same name, Cop Puppet employs stuffed animals as narrative vehicles that critique the darker side of state power and popular culture. The stuffed animal impart a pleasant familiarity and provide an…

pucker is the story of how one woman's sexuality revolves around and inside her mouth. With falling ice, secreted hairnets and golden handbags, Goldwater revels in the pleasure of words as they roll off the tongue.

Talent Hut, established in 1989, is rearing its ugly head once more after an extended run in hell. Mainstays MC Jimmi Schmmoz, Orlan Fortrel, Big Glory (guitar) Hole, Ina Pavolvina, Jean Poole, Boofka Putz, Countess Turnoff, and new recruits take…

Artist and educator Andrea Fraser gives a talk on her performance practice, critical interrogation of art history, and institutional critique of exhibition spaces as addressed through one of her best known works, Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk,…