Skins
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…
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While our new archives search engine is being prepared, you can browse our archives of past programs here on our legacy website.
Western Front's physical archives are located at 303 E 8th Ave, Vancouver.
The archives are open by appointment to all researchers on Thursdays and Fridays. Please contact our archivist, Anna Tidlund, to plan your visit.
Western Front's physical archives are located at 303 E 8th Ave, Vancouver.
The archives are open by appointment to all researchers on Thursdays and Fridays. Please contact our archivist, Anna Tidlund, to plan your visit.
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Corporeal Returns: Feminism and Phenomenology in Vancouver Video and Performance 1968-1983
Essay by Marina Roy, first published in Canadian Art, Summer 2001.
Learning from Vancouver
According to a recent survey prepared by Mercer Consulting, the world’s largest human resource firm specializing in investments and outsourcing, Vancouver is now the fourth…
A Noisy Brush with the Infinite
Keynote lecture from the Noise not Noise conference at the Western Front.
Michael Turner’s “Three Readings” text available for download
Western Front Media Arts is pleased to present Michael Turner’s text “Three Readings: Camera, Tape and Sound (Kathy Acker, Steve McCaffery/bpNicol, and Kevin Davies, as…
Momentarily: Learning from Mega-Events now Available Online
Momentarily: Learning from Mega-Events, Western Front’s latest publication is available in its entirety for DOWNLOAD. Momentarily: Learning from Mega-Events Strategic, simplified, spotless, homogenizing representations require…
Continuum Model
Western Front is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Vancouver based artist Sylvain Sailly. Presenting an entirely new body of work, the exhibition will…
Casey Wei: Kingsgate Happenings
Western Front Artist in Residence Casey Wei, has programmed a month of events at nearby Kingsgate Mall throughout June. Wei will be participating in and…
Slow Wave Pt. 2 & Here Nor There, Season 1 Podcast Launch
Slow Wave Pt 2. All the Little Objectiles by Michelle Mackenzie & Here Nor There Season 1 launch, Gabi Dao with guests Friday, October 13th at 7pm RSVP…
lilithlithlithlithlithlith: through spiral upon spiral of the shell
Doors at 7:30pm, performance begins at dusk. As darkness falls around Western Front, lilithlithlithlithlith invites participation in the form of listening to, along, beside and around. Informed…
Monologues: patriarchal traditions and the New Age
Deborah Edmeades’ lecture is a sensorial visual immersion. The Luxe has been transformed in a pink lens, an oculus, an incubator. Her research into histories of esoteric knowledge,…
The Foreshore Listens
A special event launching a suite of multi-textured podcasts based on and inspired by The Foreshore Sessions: Vanessa Campbell thinking in and about hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and language reclamation, Stacey Ho…
Past is Prologue: 20 years of COSMOSQUAW
An evening with Sḵwx̱wú7mesh storyteller Salia Joseph and Cree-Metis poet Samantha Nock, who will honour, contextualize and expand on Cree/Saulteaux/Métis artist Lori Blondeau’s COSMOSQUAW (1998).…
COSMOSQUAW: A Reply in Three Parts
“When Lori broke the scene to tell a story of her love of Vicks, it cemented her performance in my own family stories. I don’t…
REGENERATION: Breaking Time with Indigenous Video Games
Guest curated by Maize Longboat Independent video game maker and researcher Maize Longboat curates REGENERATION: Breaking Time with Indigenous Video Games, a night featuring games…