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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…

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…

A series of short works from the Montreal performance festival FA3, performed in sequence at grunt gallery.

The Skeena Journal was a local television program produced by CFTK TV out of Terrace British Columbia. The reoccurring series was made up of interviews and local stories that explored the North West. The themes for each episode were inspired by…

Founded in 1979, l'Association francophone de Kamloops (AFK) is made up of members from all different communities in the Kamloops region and surrounding areas including Chase, Knutsford, Logan Lake and Merritt. Its publication, Entre Nous,…

Karen Jamieson Dance, under the artistic direction of Karen Jamieson, was formed in 1983. Karen has created over 100 original dance works with original scores by over 20 respected Canadian composers, performed in Canada, Europe, Japan and the United…

The AFCR provides programs and activities to the Francophones of the Campbell River area. It changed its name to the AFCI in 2019. Its first newsletter, La Bonne Pêche, seems to have been published monthly, with each issue bearing a different…

Welcome to the home of ARCH – BC, the Archival Records of Ceramic History in British Columbia. Arch-BC is a site dedicated to the newsletters of the Potters Guild of British Columbia (PGBC) the oldest provincial ceramic guild in Canada. The…

This collection contains objects of general relevance to the LIVE Biennial of Performance Art 2001, including promotional materials, listings, and articles.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

In A Simple Truth, Belmore discusses her process of creating work through a narrative involving her connection to the suicide of a student with whom she worked with during a residency. During the performance, she lies down while being surrounded by…

Matching outfits and brightly coloured dance shoes were Norma's uniform for this performance that emphasized and undermined the boundaries that separate audience and performer. This performance was presented by Access Gallery.

Le Bastion de Nanaimo is the newsletter of the AFN. The 1986 issues are from Vol. 11, so we are presuming that Vol. 1 was published in 1976. This is an incomplete collection, from April 1986 to Dec. 2009, with gaps. It has been published in various…

The second LIVE Biennial of Performance Art took place from October 13 to November 30 2001, and engaged seventeen Vancouver arts organizations and dozens of artists, curators, writers, academics, and others in the production of Vancouver's…

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…

The CCFV was situated on 16th Ave. at the corner of Willow. The present version is in the Maison de la Francophonie on W. 7 Ave. The Bulletin was its publication. This is an incomplete collection, ranging from Feb.-Mar.-Apr. 1998 to May-Aug. 2003 Le…