Tania Bruguera: Residency
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. VIII, no. 4, p. 12, March/April 1997: Performance Saturday March 22nd, 10:30pm Cuban performance artist, Tania Bruguera, born…
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Results filed under: political art
Domingo Cisneros: Residency
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. VIII, no. 2, p. 13, November/December 1996: Domingo Cisneros is a Mexican Metis and a Cultural Warrior who…
Vancouver Tree-Line
A special production. Done in tandem with Stewart’s performance work, Pilgrim-Exile, as part of his 1989 residency at the Western Front. “This video tape is…
Pilgrim-Exile
Stewart’s work reflects his conviction that without “metaphysical reconstruction” our society is headed for a deadly conflict within itself and with the natural world. Stewart…
Measures of Distance and Eyes Skinned
Original Archive Entry: A special production. Measures of Distance is about a mother and daughter’s joyous reunion, despite a doting father’s jealous presence, during the…
Private Eyes
A special production. “Privatization has become trendy” reads the text which underscores the tape’s storyline: the Canadian Gallery of Art is being taken over by…
Homelands
A special production. In collaboration with On Edge. This tape illustrates the corruption and other problems related to the continuing erosion of the British Isles…
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…
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’…