Reading from Forest City. 

AA Bronson as Spokesman for General Idea. In the performance, Bronson, wearing a black censor bar over his glasses, reads General Idea’s Glamour Manifesto in its…

Reading from Poems from Ireland and Songs of the Sea Witch and other poems.

Video production by Kate Craig with music by Hank Bull. Shot with the Canada Council’s colour camera, which was being sent from centre to centre…

b/w mono a Western Front Video Production “Everybody dreams in Haiti. Haiti is a land of dreams. Also the people of the island believe in…

An exhibition of artifacts culled from the back alleys and trash cans of Tinsel Town. The centre piece was a marble sign reading THIS IS…

A musical discourse in Rondo form between a woman, 5 parrots, and a washing machine. This was a re-production of one of Falk’s famous performances…

Artist-in-residence. Special production. “It’s a long range project to translate and update in video form some of the artistic propositions presented in book form.” –…

Documentation of a reading at the Western Front by the Four Horsemen: Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, Steve McCaffery and bp Nichol. Full version of digitized video…

Work is a dance performed during Hildebrand’s artist residency at Western Front.

Performance by Barbara Dilley and Arawana Hayashi Workshop. Performance at Scottish Auditorium. New dance works from Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado.

A performative reading by Constance DeJong of her novel Modern Love; a self published series of four chapbooks printed, bound, and delivered by DeJong in 1977. The performance takes place in Western Front’s Luxe Hall where a stool is lit under a simple white spotlight providing a minimal set design. Occasionally, DeJong retreats to the shadows and eventually walks over to the piano. The piano is never played, but is used as a site for DeJong to sit down and rest her script (selected excerpts from Modern Love), taking repose from the spotlight. The simple performance site contrasts the vivid encounters, anecdotes, and prose read by DeJong which she reads in a slow and lulling drawl. Narratives, characters, and events casually slip in and out; rendering time fluid. Characters oscillate between an unnamed female protagonist, Rodrigo Cortes and sound clips re-telling the story of an old mansion built by the sea in Oregon. The reading is inter spliced with music clips by The Chanels, Bob Dylan, and a commissioned work by Phillip Glass titled “Modern Love Waltz” to build the tone. The resulting effect leaves the bulk of the performance to take place predominantly in the imagination of the viewer/reader, (Visual manifestation/projection) perhaps a testament to her contemporaries Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus. (The style of filming, as documented by Kate Craig, mimics the perspective of the viewer by matching the rhythm of the reading with specific film shots at rest.) DeJong performed many reading variations, including taking the form of a radio play. Modern Love (1977) was re-issued by Ugly Ducking Press, and co-produced with Primary Information in March 2017.

Special production. The tape is an extension of The HP Radio Show, a weekly broadcast on Vancouver co-operative radio, CFRO-FM. It was intended as a…

Video produced by Image Bank. Nitsch’s use of blood, animal entrails and nude bodies in his performance works prompted a horrified response in the Vancouver…

bissett reads In the Middle of the Winter, The Wonderfulness of the Mounties, Our Secret Police, Awake in the Red Desert Sand, and other songs and poems.

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’…

An underwater fantasy involving dance, music, costumes, video and shadow play. The piece toured Canada and was performed at the Kitchen in New York.

Entry from Acts of Transfer: Duration: 38 min 48 sec Format: ¾” Umatic SP What House? is a theatrical dance work that follows three working female…