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…
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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.
Results filed under: Residency
Frame of Reference
Displaying the feedback General Idea had received from the press concerning their decade- long search for Miss General Idea, 1984.
Untitled Performance by Charlotte Hildebrand
Work is a dance performed during Hildebrand’s artist residency at Western Front.
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…
Language is War
Photographs and texts animated with performance and sound. Due to the high volume of material in the Western Front Archive, further information on this project…
Ideology and Nature
Slowly and methodically, a woman in the garb of Italian fascist youth repeatedly disrobes and dresses, accompanied by an audiotape of music and propaganda recorded…
Copier/recopier
Artist-in-residence. Director of Galerie Gaetan in Geneva. Photo works by 250 contemporary artists and A Spoken Space, audio cassettes of artists on their work.
Etude
Kye Goodwin worked for two years to develop a collection of image processing programs. The foundations were laid by Bob Richardson, but after a few…
The Uses of Would
Artist-in-residence during August of 1987. Due to the high volume of material in the Western Front Archive, further information on this project is currently unavailable.
The Vancouver Project
The construction and exhibition of a new duratran transparency based on an extant Vancouver-based painting, Canadian Youth, by Charles H. Scott.
Entropy and Essence
A large mural based on a panoramic photograph of Hornby Island processed by computer to create phases of earth, fire, air and water. Custom graphics…
Generic Man and Desire
Artist-in-residence. Originally produced as a billboard for Sterbak’s 1989 solo exhibition at the Mackenzie Art Gallery in Regina.
FRONT: Stories for Video
Front: Stories for Video is a two-channel video installation that was produced by the team Hewson/Walker (Australia) during a video residency in September 1991. Hewson/Walker,…
The Dark Pool
The Dark Pool employed interactive audio, video and photographic elements in combination with objects that pursued the artists’ interests in narrative structure and how narrative…
Henry Tsang / Olaf Nicolai: Artist Exchange
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. IX, no. 1, p. 12, September/October 1997: As part of an artist exchange between Leipzig, Germany and Vancouver,…
Doing Sovereignties | Sounding Sovereignties
CONCERT: Sounding Sovereignties May 27, 8pm ***Note new date!*** FREE Guest Indigenous performers who engage in the practice of sound and sovereignty share their work in an…