Backup
Special video production in which a smorgasbord of lifestyles (called modes) of two women intercut with a suspense murder drama that takes place in a…
Special video production in which a smorgasbord of lifestyles (called modes) of two women intercut with a suspense murder drama that takes place in a…
Western Front: London Bureau No Soul For Sale, 2nd Edition, 5/14 – 5/16/2010 at the Tate Modern (London, UK) This May, Western Front will participate in…
Profile of Kate Craig by Karen Henry from Caught in the Act, An Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women. Edited by Tanya Mars and Johanna…
Essay by Marina Roy, first published in Canadian Art, Summer 2001.
Video production by Kate Craig. Lady Brute modelling her collection of leopard skin clothing, one item at a time. The work is a document of…
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. IX, no. 2, p. 7, November/December 1997: Kate Craig is one of Vancouver’s most prominent video artists. Founder…
Special production. Shot primarily in Japan in 1988, the artist wondered how it was that a culture could be so pure and unified in its…
A special production. Mysterious stairways carved in stone leading to the heavens at the ancient temple site of Mamalapuram in Tamil Nadu, the prayer wheels…
Luminous Sites was a large exhibition of Canadian video installations focusing on social forms of representation curated by Daina Augaitis of the Western Front Gallery…
Either/Or in Chinatown was commissioned by Video Inn and shot in part at the Western Front during Bódy’s 1984 residency. Based on Danish philosopher Søren Kierkega’s Diary…
Intermedia had grown so large by the winter of 1971 that special interest groups had developed, and different people had acquired their own equipment. We…
For the last year, the artists had been travelling in Japan, Southeast Asia, India, Africa and Europe; their objective was to meet other artists and…
D/A Converter, Elizabeth Vander Zaag Straight Jacket, Kate Craig Da Da Go Go, Susan Britton
“The straight jacket I designed and made out of hot pink acetate satin. (It was to be of silk but at $32.00 a yard what…
Screening. Programme included Chaperones Rouge by Helen Doyle and Helen Bourgault, Delicate Issue by Kate Craig, Miniature Theatre by Nancy Nicol, You Must Remember This by Marshalore, Modern Love by…
Special production. An uncompromising, micro-examination of the artists’ body with the voice asking such questions as, “What is the dividing line between public and private?”…
Artist-in-residence. Special production. A smorgasbord of lifestyles (called modes) of two women intercut with a suspense murder drama that takes place in a private girls’…
Debut of Canada Shadows. Adapted from the novel by Alfred Jarry, commissioned by the City of Vancouver. The Western Front’s fourth anniversary event.