LIVE at the End of the Century
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Title:Date:1999-10-07Genre:performance artDescription:pucker is the story of how one woman's sexuality revolves around and inside her mouth. With falling ice, secreted hairnets and golden handbags, Goldwater revels in the pleasure of words as they roll off the tongue.
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Date:1999-10-15Genre:performance artDescription:Informed by popular culture and situated in contemporary cultural issues, Marlene Madison's Mira investigates multiple performance gestures and takes a humorous look at the phenomenon of cults - from psychoanalysis to those which more subtly permeate the mainstream, such as consumerism,...
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Title:Date:1999-10-02Genre:performance artDescription:We step into the year 1929 and the big crash is looming ahead. We see him. perhaps mad in the surrounding whirlwind and we see her who shapes his destiny. The Players flit in and out of his mind, and as the paranoia grows does anyone know where to turn?
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Date:1999-10-21-1999-10-25Genre:performance artDescription:The Performance Network Symposium brought together curators from across Canada to develop and explore networking and exchange opportunities in the performance art sector via three days of attending LIVE events and discussions for participants, followed by a full day of public presentations at the...
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Date:1999-10-09Genre:performance artDescription:Lesbian art collective Kiss & Tell's Borderline Disorderly draws on their experiences as artists and activists to confront the complexity of making art as queer Canadians. This performance is about artistic process, censorship, the gulf between image and representation, perceptions of...
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Date:1999-10-23Genre:performance artDescription:This event brings a fresh approach and current elements of urban youth culture into the dialogue of spectatorship and performance. The 1990s saw an explosion of technologized culture. Turntablism, music producers/arrangers, video, and multimedia artists increasingly create art and performance...
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Title:Date:1999-10-29Genre:performance artDescription:Rehearsal is part of an ongoing investigation on the conditions which surround "performance". The performance event accompanies a two week installation that attempts to activate the gallery space, blurring lines between performance and non-performance and questioning its supposed...
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Date:1999-10-21Genre:performance artDescription:Artist and educator Andrea Fraser gives a talk on her performance practice, critical interrogation of art history, and institutional critique of exhibition spaces as addressed through one of her best known works, Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk, 1989.
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Title:Date:1999-11-13Genre:performance artDescription:A joint production of Western Front and grunt gallery, this fundraiser featured performance and video documentation, a live performance by Velveeta Krisp and an auction of performance props and related artworks.
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Date:1999-10-22Genre:performance artDescription:Accompanying an exhibit at Artspeak of the same name, Cop Puppet employs stuffed animals as narrative vehicles that critique the darker side of state power and popular culture. The stuffed animal impart a pleasant familiarity and provide an alternative means to directly experience the essence of...
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Date:2001-10-13Genre:performance artDescription:Talent Hut, established in 1989, is rearing its ugly head once more after an extended run in hell. Mainstays MC Jimmi Schmmoz, Orlan Fortrel, Big Glory (guitar) Hole, Ina Pavolvina, Jean Poole, Boofka Putz, Countess Turnoff, and new recruits take you on a seedy tour of the bottom end of show biz....
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Date:1999-10-30Genre:performance artDescription:This piece is a compilation of four solos. The image and message of Mary Magdalene is portrayed from four historical viewpoints: the medieval, the Elizabethan, the turn of the Twentieth Century, and the modern. The challenge of uniting the physical and spiritual is developed with reference to...
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Title:Date:1999-11-04-1999-11-04Genre:performance artDescription:Re-Act was a two night retrospective of live art by Paul Wong, taking the form of a live multimedia presentation including video projects and multi-monitors, live video mixing, musicians, audio, lighting, movement, and theatrics, all directed live on stage. Wong reframed dozens of collaborations,...
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Date:1999-10-26Genre:performance artDescription:Wireless Bodies was performed as part of ALA's Havana Gallery Series and was curated by Adad Hannah. The overarching theme of this performance is the wireless body - the body as appropriated and inserted into a set of media determined relationships.
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Title:Date:1999-10-07Genre:performance artDescription:Blue Lodge was performed as part of ALA's Havana Gallery series and was curated by Archer Pechawis. Also known as A Little Piece of Unity, this performance is an unconventional multi-media storytelling that recorded and reflected on aspects of Norris' relationships with her horse and the...