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A performer prepares a clothesline. Performers comb and bleach hair. Still from Lori Blondeau's Bleached.

Victoria Stanton on stage at the microphone with Louise Dubreuil, Josée Tremblay, and Nathalie Derome watching. Still from Impure: Reinventing the Word: The Theory, Practice, and Oral History of 'Spoken Word' in Montreal with writers…

Performance history of Satina Saturnina 1994-1999. Collected material for Sector X: the hot new work by New Zealand fetish/punk artist Satina Saturnina.

November 03 - February 04 brochure from Folly Gallery, featuring Chiasma. Collected material from Chiasma by Léa Donnan, Rebecca Belmore, and Hester Reeve.

Diane Landry at the record players, surrounded by a large audience. Still from La Morue (Cod) by Diane Landry.

Thirza Cuthand smiles at the audience. Still from Alice by Thirza Cuthand.

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

Nathalie Derome stands above a pile of wood and fabric and a stick of burning incense, speaking into the microphone. Still from Girouette-Weathercock.

Part of four-legged, two rear-ended organism lays in doorway, in front of seated audience, covered in food. Still from Total Ass by Erin Stanley and Corin Sworn.

Nathalie Derome's performance Girouette-Weathercock for FA3.

A performer kneels on the floor near a white square. Another lays on the floor in the background. Still from 7 Degrees.

Listing for Too Close To Fire from The Loop. Collected material for Too Close To Fire.

Audience program for the LIVE At the End of the Century Peformance Art Cabaret including artist bios. Collected Material for the Performance Art Cabaret.

Video documentation of Christine Taylor's piece in the Performance Art Cabaret.

Descriptive blurb for Hester Reeve's 2001 a space odyssey – an excavation of truth.

Title page for Rebecca Belmore's section in the Chiasma binder. Collected material from Chiasma by Léa Donnan, Rebecca Belmore, and Hester Reeve.

A video camera, with the display screen flipped out, showing the top of John Boehme's head. Still from The Performance Evaluation Review by Judith Price and John Boehme.

Audience members pull flowers off of Lisa Deanne Smith's flower suit. Still from Flower Girl by Lisa Deanne Smith.

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…

Vanessa, Kara, and Josh, in matching outfits, speak at standing microphones, holding their hands up. Still from The Comedians by Vanessa Kwan, Josh Neelands, and Kara Uzelman.

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…

French article on Robert Saucier's Aibo. Collected material for Infrasense by Robert Saucier and KIT artist collective.

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…