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

This collection contains objects of general relevance to the LIVE Biennial of Performance Art 2005, 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.

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…

Named after William Burroughs' novel, Nova Express, the Nova Library attempts to share the creative process with the community and represent the spirit, ideas, and creativity of current and former drug users in the Downtown Eastside. Working…

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.…

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…

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…

Infrasense is a two-person collaborative sound and robotic installation. Nine plastic and metal molded robotic sculptures, representing the Trojan horse' electronic virus, moved slowly across the gallery space in a straight line, backwards and…

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.

LIVE Biennial of Performance Art 2005 is the final festival featured in this collection. Coordinated by Jeremy Turner, LIVE 2005 saw the launch of a dedicated website listing festival events and the decentralization of photography duties from grunt…

Stiles, Robert, Arcand, and Alteen and the audience discuss the nature and veracity of performance art documentation, the impulse to document and publish as a function of arts institutions, and the interplay of theory born of intuition and…

Judy Radul and Geoffrey Farmer's collaborative work resulting from their excursions to Vancouver courtrooms. The artists examined the "cultural performance" that takes place within the court of law, a fertile 'stage' because…

"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…

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…

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…

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…

Aason Vidaver is a writer and archivist. Drawing upon his archival work for cultural organizations as well as his previous interventions in public space, Vidaver builds a performed lecture addressing judicial selfhood and linguistic dissent. Counter…

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…