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…
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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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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…
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).…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A Noisy Brush with the Infinite
Keynote lecture from the Noise not Noise conference at the Western Front.
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…
Corporeal Returns: Feminism and Phenomenology in Vancouver Video and Performance 1968-1983
Essay by Marina Roy, first published in Canadian Art, Summer 2001.
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…