Dutch Light/textual action
Artist-in-residence. Special Production. “It is a special light. The deep, cloud-dark sky and texture of the waters charge one another with implicit force. The flat…
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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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In Case We Meet
Artist-in-residence. Special production. Co-sponsored by A Space, Goethe Institute, Vancouver Art Gallery. This is unusual I know. Yet the same thing has happened the day…
Edited Messages
Artist-in-residence. Special production. A tape about one’s confusion regarding the accuracy of the information we receive, either directly or indirectly, from an early age to…
Stories from the Front (and the Back): A True Blue Romance
Artist-in-residence. Special production. This work features a cycle of stories drawn from and recorded following a visit to the Western Front. Each story forms a…
Prime Cuts
Artist-in-residence. Special production. A tape about style, technology and sexuality. Delivered in an unpolitical and distanced view, not unlike a commercial, we see life as…
Out of Control
Artist-in-residence. Special production. Due to the high volume of material in the Western Front Archive, information on this project is currently unavailable.
Paradise Lost
Artist-in residence. Special production. A tape about relationships, documenting a decade of history. Ideologies develop and dissolve. Value systems shift focus. It is shown from…
Mandala ’82
Artist-in-residence. Special production. “This tape concerns the Mandala, which is a symbol of states of consciousness in esoteric Buddhism. All beings arise from the sands…
T.V. Translate Waiting
Artist-in-residence. Special production. Commenting on the video, Brunner states, “[t]he association I deliver calls up in the view a definite symbol. I, the deliverer, the cause…
Fear of Blue
Artist-in-residence. Special production. A metaphoric text on the meaning of the colour blue is illustrated with images of sky and sea. The soundtrack includes original…
Potatoes
Artist-in-residence. Special production. The fragmentation of the video screen by the macro process is carried into language. Nouns are taken out of context and the…
Marie Chien Noir
Artist-in-residence. Special Production. Shot and edited by Michael Brodie. A presentation of three solo works: Mimas Lune de Saturne (1980); Plaisirs de Tous Les Sens dans…
Unbashed Heroics
Artist-in-residence. Special production. World news is thrown into the shredder. Striking classical revolutionary poses before a moving tableau of disaster, the speakers become puppets manipulated…
Cause for Suspicion
Artist-in-residence. Special production. The tape is an expression of the artist’s personal attitude towards the history of film and television, the premise being that too…
As The Petals Fall
Artist-in-residence. Special production. A borderline psychodrama teetering towards daytime television. Dorothy Dean plays an hysterical alcoholic widow who is up against a deceptive nephew, a…
Artist in Residence: Max Dean
Research residency. Due to the high volume of material in the Western Front Archive, further information on this project is currently unavailable.
Confused
Artists-in-residence. Private screening. Special Production. A view of 20th century multi-sexual ideologies and practices. The work drew on aspects of the late 60′s sexual revolution and…
Great Moments in Modern Art #2 – Beuys Crashes His Stuka
Installation. Due to the high volume of material in the Western Front Archive, information on this project is currently unavailable.