Art and Community: an overview of work from 1990-1995
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. VII, no. 4, p. 7, March/April 1996: Battered cars perch on a grassy knoll in front of a…
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. VII, no. 4, p. 7, March/April 1996: Battered cars perch on a grassy knoll in front of a…
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. VII, no. 3, p. 12, January/February 1996: Over the past years Hayley Newman has produced a series of…
Danger Signs was a public art installation that produced a narrative of transgression, one in which a series of women assume roles traditionally associated with…
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. VI, no. 5, p. 6, May/June 1995: Outdoor performances of The Numbers Game, an Outdoor Installation for Choir…
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. V, no. 5, p. 10, Spring/Summer 1994: PERFORMANCE Tuesday, June 21 This project for Front Gallery will involve…
Closing party and catalogue launch for the exhibition which was a series of photo-based works in a downtown bus-shelter. Artists Kati Campbell, Lorna Brown, Ann…
Environmental acoustics and sound, presented as a one-day installation on the rocks at Stanley Park. Co-sponsored by the Goethe-Institut. Also featuring a performance by Julius…
A site-specific sculptural collaboration between Koenker, an artist, and Pacheco, an architect. Consisted of an elevated viewing platform that connected three neighbouring Vancouver gardens which…
This dramatic performance culminated in the artists boating out into Vancouver harbour and dropping huge letters, spelling H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, into the bay, observed by the audience…
A series to accompany the exhibition, Luminous Sites. Curated by Glenn Lewis. Paulette Phillips, 03/08/86: A narrative partly inspired by spontaneous scenes she witnessed. The audience…
Luminous Sites was a large exhibition of Canadian video installations focusing on social forms of representation curated by Daina Augaitis of the Western Front Gallery…
Site specific outdoor installation on the Western Front building controlled by wind and rain. A water wheel on the side of the building and a…
Commissioned by Eric Metcalfe and performed on location outside B.C. Place Stadium in Vancouver. Artists Alan Storey and Terry Larkin constructed a tank out of…
The Ayatollah, disguised as one of the three wisemen, absconds with the Dog in the Manger and sings “Santa’s Got a Brand New Bag.” With…
Glenn Lewis and Gerry Gilbert organized this event, a race along Georgia Street with the artists “carrying their art on their backs,” for CBC television’s Up…