Robert Filliou: Residency
Member of the Fluxus movement, Filliou’s visit affirmed and aquainted the Western Front with some social principles. Filliou had dedicated his Principles of Poetic Economy…
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Ant Farm: Residency
Chip Lord and Megan Williams from San Francisco. Artists from the US west coast, particularly California, helped establish a certain west coast sensibility – a…
Banker’s Holiday
Film written and directed by Fielding Dawson, artist-in-residence at Western Front, starring Bob Amussen. Camera by Kate Craig Sound by Mary Beth Knechtel Sound Effects…
In Video Traction
The tape was shot on a performance set designed in the form of a hospital room and waiting area. The audience played the part of…
Hollywood Archaeology
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…
Re: Union
A one week residency. Contact improvisation with Nancy Stark Smith, Nita Little, Curt Siddal, and Danny Lepkoff. The name is a reference to Grand Union,…
Warsaw, City of Song
Artist-in-residence. “Warsaw, City of Song” documents the artist’s recent visit to Vienna and Warsaw. “Smokers’ Nosebleeds” starring David Byrne.
Frame of Reference
Displaying the feedback General Idea had received from the press concerning their decade- long search for Miss General Idea, 1984.
The Dental Tapes
Character-generated text over a re-edited tumor-removal surgery.
Press Conference
A press conference by General Idea. AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal each answer two questions posed by the assembled press corps. The topics…
Artist in Residence: Granada Gazelle
Granada Gazelle was a member of General Idea and worked closely with them throughout the 1970′s.
And So On, End So Soon, Telepathic Music no. 7
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.” –…
May I/Can I
Artist-in-residence. Work is a single channel video production.
Untitled Performance by Charlotte Hildebrand
Work is a dance performed during Hildebrand’s artist residency at Western Front.
Asteroid
Artist-in-residence. Special Production. Work is a single channel video of a dance production, performed by Steve Paxton on a hardwood floor and filmed by a…
Aktion 58
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…
Documents from the Theatre of the Actual
This was the artist’s first solo exhibition in North America. Due to the high volume of material in the Western Front Archive, further information on…
Back Up
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’…