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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…

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…

Larry Krone at the microphone, with a ukelele, at the Anza Club. Still from A Country & Western Jamboree by Larry Krone.

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…

Peter Conlin makes a note with participants in the background. Still from Freedom by Peter Conlin.

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

Larry Krone performs ukelele solo, on stage at the Anza Club. Still from A Country & Western Jamboree by Larry Krone.

Louise Dubreuil kneels on stage, wearing a blazer covered in hanging toy figurines Still from Impure: Reinventing the Word: The Theory, Practice, and Oral History of 'Spoken Word' in Montreal with writers Vincent Tinguely and Victoria…

Mo reads from a podium, next to projected text of lecture topics. Still from Racism in Empire by Mo Sa'lemy.

Item is a typed letter to Vance from Frank Woodside, Acting Mayor of Vancouver. Woodside invites Vance to a luncheon with visiting American Electrochemical Society members.

Audience members, including David Yonge and Glenn Alteen. Still from Racism in Empire by Mo Sa'lemy.

This is the reverse side of the certificate for shares, from the Sointula Cooperative Store Limited, issued to Sander Hayrynen.

Glenn Lewis holding a script at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Still from Mondo Artie Episode #6070 by Glenn Lewis.

This series contains research and reference files as originally created, maintained, and filed by John Vance during his lifetime and career. The records include paperwork and letters from various organizations and the City of Vancouver, lecture…

André smiles with an audience member who holds a book. Still from White Trash by André Stitt.

For the closing reception of LIVE 2003, the Rodney Graham Band performed at The Drink in Vancouver. Rodney Graham is one of Canada's leading international artists. His work in every medium can be traced to a performance art sensibility. His…

This series contains the personal and professional correspondence created and received by John Vance during his lifetime and career. The records include a diary from 1934-1935 which chronicles his time under police protection, correspondence with…

A participant crouches, examining a note on the floor. Still from Freedom by Peter Conlin.

A projected screen shows a figure spreading a powder across the floor. Still from Intimate Investigations by Lezli Rubin-Kunda.

A projected screen shows a figure making a snow angel in powder on the floor. Still from Intimate Investigations by Lezli Rubin-Kunda.

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

This is the reverse side of the certificate for shares, from the Sointula Cooperative Store Limited, issued to Amanda Wartianen.