The Headless Woman
Entry from Acts of Transfer: Duration: 30 min Format: ¾” Umatic SP The Headless Woman is a 30-minute monologue by Shawna Dempsey that recounts a revelatory…
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Results filed under: performance art
The Bridge
Work is a single channel video production of a dance choreographed by Paula Ross for Concerto for Cello Orchestra by Gyorgi Legeti and Variations in…
Amphibious Tales
Work is a performance of a song cycle for extended voice, text, dance, and percussion. From Front Magazine, Sept/Oct 1992 Vol.IV No.1 P.12: AMPHIBOUS TALES DB…
Demo Model
Work is a performance from the Fifth Avenue Network Video Conference in Toronto. This is a non-Western Front produced performance. Digitized video available through Western…
The Gallery Director
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. XV, no. 4, p. 28, September/October 2004: The Artist – The Cultural Worker Series Three Interventions: October…
Power Circus
Work is a performance done in the style of a circus where Wilson and Radul perform unremarkable acts, interspersed with dialogue relating to power. It…
Respecting the Endocrine System
Documentation of a workshop by Linda Montano at the Western Front including an introduction by Montano and exercises by the participants and Montano.
Buttonhole Perfection/And So As For By But And If Not Yet Why
A performance in which TBA TV discusses their interaction with television, followed by shots of buildings on one television and shots of a man speaking…
Inside / Out
Entry from Acts of Transfer: Duration: 11 min 28 sec Original Format: ¾” Umatic This digitized document from the Western Front archive is a selection of…
Untitled Performance
Entry from Acts of Transfer: Duration: 24 min 20 sec Format: ¾” Umatic Laetitia Sonami’s performance took place as part of Women in View, a festival…
Such Sweet Compulsion
“Each of the seven works in such sweet compulsion re-invented the diva in a way that highlights key issues that circulate around the power of…
Joolz Live in Gangland
Reading event with Joolz Denby at Gangland Studios, co-sponsored by Cutting Edge Productions. Works is a performance in which Joolz reads from “Stories about Junkies”…
Scoring Sound: Vancouver Draw Down Festival
Grand Luxe Hall, Western Front FREE Have you ever heard a drawing before? Come and draw your own score and hear it played by international…
Circuit Ensemble
$12 General / $10 WF Members & Students The Circuit Ensemble is the musical face of a national grassroots collective of musicians and presenters dedicated…
A Simple Truth
Work is a performance at Western Front as part of LIVE Biennial of Performance Art Festival in which Belmore discusses her process of creating work through…
Absent/Presence
Entry from Acts of Transfer: Duration: 2 hrs 24 min Format: Mini DV Linda Montano is a performance artist whose work explores the idea of art…
Liminal Acts (Contemporary Ritual Series)
Alward wears a pair of neon angel wings for the duration of the performances. The audience is welcome to sample the various foods on the…
Untitled Performance
Work is a performance in which Labreque wears a pink jump-suit and uses pre-recorded voice, wooden letters, and other makeshift instruments to make music. The…