Through the Soles of My Mother’s Feet
A four channel video installation, consisting of video of the making of ornate architectural designs, handicrafts and advertising material through the using the creator’s hands…
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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: multi-channel video
Jaguar
A six channel video installation. A description of the work on the former Western Front website reads, “[b]ased on footage shot from a variety of…
Henry Tsang: Residency
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. VII, no. 1, p. 6, September/October 1995: Once upon a time, in 1990, the Western Front Lux was…
Electronic Eve
The Electronic Eve juxtaposed photographic and video images to create a portrait of the Electronic Eve. Photographic panels depicted images of a segmented female body,…
Zainub Verjee: Residency
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. VI, no. 2, p. 15, November/December 1994: Zainub is producing a video installation which will consist of four…
The Fragility of Origins
The Fragility of Origins is a multi-channel video-based installation exploring issues concerning women and their bodies in relation to art and historical practice and theoretical…
Murmur
Artist in residence. Murmur is a two-channel installation, commissioned by the IKON Gallery in Birmingham, England for the exhibition Beyond Distinction. Murmur was shot largely…
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,…
Battle of the Titans
This work investigates the relations between a mother and child. The tape was produced during a residency at the Western Front in 1990 and edited in 1992…
Reorganization Room
Three monitor video installation, representing “a transcendental service on personal re-evaluation.”
Mary-Lou
Special production. Shot primarily in Japan in 1988, the artist wondered how it was that a culture could be so pure and unified in its…
En Attendant la Pluie, Leurs Mains
A special production. En Attendant la Pluie (Waiting for the Rain): In voice-over, Alice Jeffrey recounts the history of the Flood in Gitksan (a Native language…
Robert Randal, Frank Bendinelli & Terry Ewasiuk: Lecture and Screening
Lecture and Screening. Co-sponsored by Video Inn. Features Australian artists Robert Randal, Frank Bendinelli and Terry Ewasiuk.
Flag
Artist-in-residence. Special production. Flag is a video work, an opera in fact, for five channels, four monitors, and three performers. It is the companion to…
The World in Which We Live
Lecture and screening. Two-monitor installation. Digitized video of The World in Which We Live is available through the Western Front Archives upon research request.
Electric Eye
Three days of Video Cabaret at Pumps, co-produced with Pumps and the Video Inn. Music by the Government. An elaborate production that involved several channels…
Vis à Vis: Shadow Opera in 3 Acts
Kate Craig, Glenn Lewis, Patrick Ready, Martin Bartlett, Josephine Rigg and Hank Bull. “This play featured several articulated screens, projection of film, slides, dancers and…
Double Standards
Glenn Lewis (Canada), Double Standards 04/01/75 - Two-monitor installation work.