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Photographs of and around the Sointula Cooperative Store.
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Le Chronographe was the newsletter of the Société d’Histoire des Franco-Colombiens, which became the Société d’histoire de Colombie-Britannique in 1992. It was printed in various formats, from Autumn 1983 to March 1988. This is a complete collection…
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Collaborative work by Alastair MacLennan, Boris Nieslony, and Roi Vaara for Black Market International.
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The Bulletin de Nouvelles de l’Élémentaire was the newsletter of the elementary Brodeur school. This is an incomplete collection, from Nov. 22 1993 to Mar. 4 1998, with gaps. It has appeared in both 8 ½ in. x 14 in. and 8 ½ in. x 11 in. formats. The…
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This collection contains objects of general relevance to the LIVE Biennial of Performance Art 2001, including promotional materials, listings, and articles.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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The Sointula Cooperative Store collection contains documents, photos and artifacts in English and Finnish languages. The Sointula Cooperative Store is the oldest continuously operating co-op in Western Canada. Sointula's community formed the co…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…