Breath
Dragu experimented with the abstract and painterly qualities of video in this study of the mysteries of breath, in particular, the working of the diaphragm.…
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Western Front's physical archives are located at 303 E 8th Ave, Vancouver.
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: Special Production
Mz. Frankenstein
Artist in residence. A video production adapted from Mars’ Ms. Frankenstein performance. It takes the form of an imagistic narrative presented in the classic “infomercial” style.…
Big Fat Slenderella
Special video production. The Big Fat Short is a first step in the editing of collected video material for a larger project, The Big Fat Feature.…
Pythagoras’ Ghost
A special audio production and the first Western Front CD recording release. Microtonal music based on the Table of Pythagoras, composed on the computer for…
Living Dusts
A special production. “Living Dusts pursues a variegated itinerary through videated banality, the propositional power of the written sentence and the electronic elimination of space and…
Front 1 and 2: Stories for Video
A special production. “We detect the isolation of subjectivity only when the work is finished, discrepancy is retrospective and respected, integration is therefore a byproduct.…
Initiation Rite/Sacred Bath – Rito de Iniciacion/Bano Sagrado
Artist-in-residence. Special production. Reconstructed rituals invented from her grandmother’s descriptions of African voodoo practices.
Duster Cabaret
A collaborative deconstruction of the “Western.” Featuring Warren Arcan, Rebecca Belmore, Hank Bull, Fraser Finlayson, Leonard Fisher, David Hay, Eric Metcalfe and Cornelia Wyngaarden, with…
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…
Picture Window
A special production, in collaboration with Brice MacNeil (aka Art McP). The culmination of stolen bits from Vincente Minnelli’s film Some Come Running, mixed with…
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…
A Tale of Love
A special production. Socrates is hit by the arrow of Eros and he changes from a shadow into the “Boy bitten by a Lizard” after the…
Western Front Special Productions 1987-88
Video screening of some of the Western Front’s Special Productions from 1987-1988. Programme: Luc Bourdon (1988) The Story Of Feniks and Abdullah Susi Milne (1988),…
Rena Tangens & Padeluun: Telecommunications Residency
Telecommunications. Using a variety of computer mail networks, the two artists connected to artists in Europe and North America. An intense debate ensued over the question…
TV Spots
A special production. Twelve short tapes designed for broadcast among the commercials that inhabit late night television. Only one spot should be transmitted on any…
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…
Joy Ride™
A special production. Thematically inspired by institutional vs. private sector ‘devotion’ to the transcendental. As guardians of the cultural torch, theme parks and museums herd…
The Story of Feniks and Abdullah
A special production. Abdullah arrives in a city. He phones Feniks. Answering machine. Heart Slash. Passenger. Traveller, Foreigner. Outsider. Tourist. Video poetry adapted from A…