Experimental compositions using environmental, vocal and computer sound material from the Sonic Research Studio, Simon Fraser University. Programme: Son of Soundwalking (Hildegard Westerkamp) Train Piece (Bryan Wert)…
Co-sponsored by Simon Fraser University.
A joint recital/screening by the Film Workshop and Sonic Research Studio.
Taped electroacoustic music.
Sten Hanson, taped electronic music and slides.
Taped electronic music.
Works by Hildegard Westerkamp, Paul Dolden, Martin Conboy, Brian Yaremus and John Chisholm, and films by Charles Wilkinson and Steve Insley.
Featuring Peter Hannan, recorder, and works by Aharonian.
Due to the high volume of material in the Western Front Archive, information on this project is currently unavailable.
A series focused on contemporary developments for stringed instruments. Robert Lepage, René Lussier (Quebec) 10/10/85 Lussier, guitar; Lepage, clarinet. Audio Recording duration: 01:28:27 Digitized audio of…
A special production with Gérrard Couty, Veruschka Bódy and Antoni Muntadas. Infermental, the brainchild of Gábor and Vera Bódy, was a magazine on videotape. Each…
An exhibition of Western Front video selected by Kate Craig and Colin Griffiths. Two day screening of international artists’ videotapes produced by the Western Front…
A special production. A series of eight chapters examining the people and institutions located between the artist and the audience. Editing The Dealers and The Gallery was…
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…
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…
Aspects of youth culture, and its inherent relationship with mass media, commercialization and political commitment. Presented as a part of the Luminous Performance series.
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…
Notions of image production and consumption, emphasizing questions of subjectivity and the relationship between subject and information. Presented as a part of the Luminous Performance series.