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Peter Conlin and participants at the Western Front. Still from Freedom by Peter Conlin.

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.…

Item is a typed excerpt of the article "Police Executives to See "Breath Test" for Drunken Drivers".

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…

Tom Konyves stands at the microphone, holding a small book. Still from Impure: Reinventing the Word: The Theory, Practice, and Oral History of 'Spoken Word' in Montreal with writers Vincent Tinguely and Victoria Stanton.

Glenn Lewis and Victoria Singh look over a script at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Still from Mondo Artie Episode #6070 by Glenn Lewis.

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…

The Kaatza Historical Society was established in 1975 and opened the Kaatza Station Museum in the Town of Lake Cowichan in 1983. The Society collects, conserves, catalogues, researches, and interprets the history of the Cowichan Lake area, which…

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.

Groups of participants chat and eat food together against a wall. Still from Picnic by Mima Preston and Gareth Moore.

Building Committee Meeting Minutes - October 26, 1933 to October 27, 1933, and October 31,1933.

This is the front side of the certificate for shares, from the Sointula Cooperative Store Limited, issued to John Salo.

Lezli sits cross-legged on the floor, arranging found objects, while video documentation of her performance from the past 5 days screens in the background. Still from Intimate Investigations by Lezli Rubin-Kunda.

Mo stands slightly out of the spotlight, wearing a suit and tie. Still from Racism in Empire by Mo Sa'lemy.

 The AFRACB provides programs and activities for Francophones 50 years and over in B.C. It is based in Victoria. Its quarterly publication, L’Entraînés, appears both online and in print. This collection includes only a single copy, May 2019, which…

Glenn Lewis surrounded by cast and crew at a rehearsal at grunt gallery. Still from Mondo Artie Episode #6070 by Glenn Lewis.

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.

Audience members and André look towards the corner that the TV is in (not shown in photo). Still from White Trash by André Stitt.

Participants, including David Yonge and Glenn Alteen chat and share food. Still from Picnic by Mima Preston and Gareth Moore.