Collections

The home of online publications, projects, and curated collections of past programming.

  • Acts of Transfer

    Acts of Transfer

    Acts of Transfer is a project that unfolds in three acts: ‘Variety Show,’ ‘Movement Arts,’ and ‘Readings + Monologues.’ Released in three stages throughout April 2018, these acts ...

  • Early Literary Collection

    Early Literary Collection

    Early Literary Readings The recordings here document the history of literary programming at the Western Front, which began shortly after the founding of the Front, in 1974, ...

  • Front Magazine

    Front Magazine

    Front Magazine – also known as FRONT – was published from 1985-2011. Initially a way of publicizing the Western Front's programming, the magazine evolved into an independent curatorial ...

  • Past is Prologue

    Past is Prologue

    Past is Prologue is an in depth study of the Western Front’s extensive Media Archive. Inspired by the highly successful Perspective on the Archive project (2008/2009), ...

  • The Hank Bull collection

    The Hank Bull collection

    Hank Bull is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and organizer who has played an integral role in the history of the Western Front as a performer and ...

  • The Kate Craig fonds

    The Kate Craig fonds

    Together with seven other artists, Canadian artist Kate Craig (1947-2002), founded the Western Front Society in 1973. Four years later she initiated the Front’s artist-in-residence program ...

  • Western Front Early Photo Archive: The First Ten Years
  • Western Front Media Archive

    Western Front Media Archive

    The Western Front Media Archive is a collection of over 1600 audio and videotapes, consisting of audio recordings and single channel video art, documentation of literary readings, ...