This collection contains objects of general relevance to the LIVE Biennial of Performance Art 2003, including promotional materials, listings, and articles.

The final Sunday panel at grunt gallery of LIVE 2003, Trauma and Endurance engaged panelists and the audience in a discussion of laden performance: durational works addressing heavy topics, and their effect on perfomers. MacLennan, Nieslony, and…

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

Randy and Berenicci, members of One Night Only, Lizard Jones, and Susan Stewart, LIVE performers working in partnerships and collectives, discuss the nature of working collaboratively in performance in this third panel of LIVE Biennial of…

The fourth in a series of panel discussions on performance art organized for LIVE 2003. This panel engaged practitioners within, adjacent to, and outside of the performance discipline in a discussion on artistic process.

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…

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…

Fisher’s narrative embeds upon two complementary, London installations by Joseph Beuys. The narrative is encouraged by Beuys’ arrangement of his works and is stimulated by the show production of meaning the viewer participates in through research.…

For the closing reception of LIVE 2003, the Rodney Graham Band performed at The Drink in Vancouver. Rodney Graham is one of Canada's leading international artists. His work in every medium can be traced to a performance art sensibility. His…

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 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…

Since the early 1980s Stitt has collected photo snapshots of people and places in his adopted community in London and wherever he traveled making performances. As such these images function as a connection with a moment, a memory; as cultural…

An illustrated lecture and presentation by guest British curator Rob La Frenais at grunt gallery. A chance to inspire future co-productions and idea exchanges between the art world and the scientific community in the ever-fascinating realm of space…

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…