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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…

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…

Millie Chen assists a participant with an audio-smell guide. Still from The Seven Sauces by Millie Chen and Evelyn Von Michalofski.

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 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…

Millie Chen and Evelyn Von Michalofski manuever their market cart. Still from The Seven Sauces by Millie Chen and Evelyn Von Michalofski.

André keels against the wall while waiting a TV in the corner. Still from White Trash by André Stitt.

Mo's beard is trimmed by a participant. Both are spotlit in front of the projected words “Future of Empire”. Still from Racism in Empire by Mo Sa'lemy.

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…

Item consists of a letter from Vancouver's Chief of Police to Cloverdale's Chief Constable. Item also includes the letter from the Vancouver [Police] Secretary to Vance.

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…

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…

Les Échos du Pacifique is a French-language choir that has operated in the Lower Mainland from at least the 198s. The early issues of its newsletter simply bear the choirs name, Les Échos du Pacifique. This is an incomplete collection, comprising…

Larry Krone and his band perform on stage at the Anza Club. Still from A Country & Western Jamboree by Larry Krone.

LMW News spanned over 20 years, highlighting the coming season’s offerings for LMW clientele. The newsletters were a family affair: Lore Maria Wiener’s daughter, Claudia Cornwall, created whimsical illustrations of her mother’s designs and provided…

Gordon Cornwall delighted in shooting on location throughout the Lower Mainland and incorporated settings as diverse as hydroelectric dams and helicopters into the marketing images he created for LMW throughout the decades.

Since 1960, the CCFPG provides programs and activities for the Francophones of Prince George. Its newsletter is Le Coin du Parc. This is an incomplete collection from Dec. 1999 to Fall-Winter 2017-18, with gaps.

Chen and Michalofski will be gathering sound and smell information from locales around Vancouver. They will have a market stand presentation in the market where visitors can sample the audio-smell guides that result. These guides take them them…