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This event brings a fresh approach and current elements of urban youth culture into the dialogue of spectatorship and performance. The 1990s saw an explosion of technologized culture. Turntablism, music producers/arrangers, video, and multimedia…

Reservoir was a durational work by Rebecca Belmore. The artist used recycled jars to collect water and stockpiled it in the space. The reservoir remained in grunt gallery as an installation for a week following the performance.

The opening reception for Peter Conlin's Freedom, a performative exhibition that ran for for the following two weeks. Conlin used the gallery as a studio to create installations in an improvisational way, setting up several different zones to…

This performance is equal parts professional wrestling and sound assault. The costume (as well as some of the theatrics) is a replica of a 1970's Mexican wrestler. The Yellow Diablo appears in costume preparing for a match and wired with 15…

The third LIVE Biennial of Performance Art once again saw the convergence of local, national, and international performance artists, scholars, curators, and audiences in Vancouver. Directed by David Yonge, LIVE 2003 featured a special emphasis on…

This piece is a compilation of four solos. The image and message of Mary Magdalene is portrayed from four historical viewpoints: the medieval, the Elizabethan, the turn of the Twentieth Century, and the modern. The challenge of uniting the physical…

Alastair MacLennan is knowns for long durational performances with concerns of ethic, religious/political bigotry, tolerance, social improvement, death, mutation, and transformation. His performance for LIVE 2003, Rove Over, was part of Black Market…

A performance art fashion show of local artists curated by Mexican performance artist Lorena Wolffer and produced by Lori Weidenhammer. As well as creating a unique group show, Wolffer will be performing her own piece which critiques the effect of…

"Picnic" sites were chosen for their potential areas of leisure as well as their unique and sometimes awkward placement in the city. Pedestrians were encouraged to join and participate in these site-specific picnics. This closing reception…

Hungry Ghosts is a five channel video installation that features a mix of Wong's past video and performance works touching on the recurring subject of death. The video installation provides an ephemeral form where interdisciplinary elements…

Thundering Word Heard, the weekly spoken word/music fusion open mic series, presented the Vancouver book launch of 'Impure: Reinventing the Word: The Theory, Practice, and Oral History of 'Spoken Word' in Montreal'. Word-sters…

In Flower Girl, Lisa Deanne Smith created an interactive performance piece wearing a costume incorporating fresh flowers. Standing on a pedestal, Smith spoke about her desires then walked through the audience and surrounding neighbourhood asking…

A live large-scale mixed media installation was produced by anonymous collaborators HUMAN 5. The event is process-based and will bring to light diversity within practices alive in the public realm. Presented by the Helen Pitt Gallery, now known as…

A performance in a retrospective format, inventing and telling tales of performance in Vancouver from the 60's and 70's. Featuring an ensemble cast made up of a who's who of Vancouver performance artists, this multimedia project was…

The Performance Network Symposium brought together curators from across Canada to develop and explore networking and exchange opportunities in the performance art sector via three days of attending LIVE events and discussions for participants,…

'Barbed Wire' is McMurry's autobiographical performance that will challenge our perceptions and emotions. We witness him in states of physical danger as he performs defiant and dangerous activities that young boys specifically engage…

Boris Nieslony has worked in performance art since the 1970's and is the founder of Black Market International. He works extensively around the world organizing and networking performance art activity.

The Performance Art Cabaret at the Vogue Theatre was the kickoff event for LIVE at the End of the Century, the first LIVE Biennial of Performance Art. Organized by Glenn Alteen and Brice Canyon, this event continued a tradition of cabaret…

Cabaret diva-comedienne and performance artist, Astrid Hadad, already a legend in her native Mexico City and across the world, is known for her ravishing voice and outrageous stage presence. Astrid's show is a fusion of song, theatre and…

Dynamo presented Liminal's original production, Objects for the Emancipated Consumer, a multimedia spy drama and interactive performance and installation. Six characters searched for answers to an ambiguous series of past, present, and future…

LIVE at the End of the Century 1999 was the first LIVE Biennial of Performance Art and was conceived of and coordinated by Glenn Alteen and Brice Canyon. Eleven Vancouver arts organizations and countless individuals collaborated to produce five…

Taste This, a group of four performers who blend storytelling, music, and performance to create a multi-media spoken word experience, has been known to take on topics ranging from cross dressing to super heroes, and now, pyromania. Too Close to Fire…

A multimedia performance by Vancouver based Anishinabe writer Marie Annharte Baker celebrating the coyotrix - the continuing presence of the coyote in urban life. Presented by IMAG.

Re-Act was a two night retrospective of live art by Paul Wong, taking the form of a live multimedia presentation including video projects and multi-monitors, live video mixing, musicians, audio, lighting, movement, and theatrics, all directed live…

Dallas creates a moving sculpture by transforming animal hides into abstract forms and sculptures, applying 'tattoo-like' designs and free verse poetry to the surfaces. The plains of the skins are screens into which she will project her…