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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…

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…

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.…

This is the annual report of Éducacentre, an educational centre for adult learning, based in Vancouver. This is an incomplete collection with only two issues, 1998-99 and 2001-02.

Imagine a musical instrument with one hundred wires strung over fifty feet. This is the extraordinary Long String Instrument (LSI), developed over twenty years by internationally acclaimed composer-performer Ellen Fullman. For this marquee event in…

Select works from Gregory's series How to Predict the Weather Using a Pig Spleen were presented at Video In. For the month of November the studio was turned into a four week long working space as Gregory reworked technical elements of this…

Volt is "the electric body and its kinetic charge, the language used to depict acquisition - what attracts and repels desire. A continuing fascination, exploration, and re-invention of identity, the past, present, and future self..." -…

In conjunction with the LIVE Biennial of Performance Art 2005, The Al Neil Project presented 4 evenings of interdisciplinary work by, and inspired by, Vancouver innovator Al Neil, a seminal force in the multi-disciplinary practices that have…

Based in Kelowna, the CCFO provides programs and activities for the Francophones of the Okanagan. Its publication, L’Écho de l’Okanagan, appeared in several formats. This incomplete collection ranges from Oct. 1979 to Jan. 1990. L’Anse-aux-Sables…

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…

Dallas creates a moving sculpture by transforming animal hides into abstract forms and sculptures, applying 'tattoo-like' designs and free verse poetry to the surfaces. The plains of the skins are screens into which she will project her…

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…

La Colombie was touted as the official publication of the FCBCB. The FCFCB was founded in 1945, and the only issue held is Vol1, No. 19, Dec. 21 1946. It does seems to be a weekly. It was published by an individual, whose freely expressed opinions…

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…

Taking in Strangers is a show that explores through oral history, physical, theatre, video, and projected images, the similarities and connections between the people of Newfoundland and Québec. With text taken verbatim from conversations, this show…

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…

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…

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…

Le Journal Jeunesse was the newsletter of the Club Jeunesse de Kelowna. We only have a single issue, no.2, [1985].  La Grenouillère en ballade was the newsletter of the Club Jeunesse de Kelowna. This is an icomplete collection, from Nov. 1985 to Oct…