LIVE Biennial of Performance Art 2003
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Date:2003-10-18-2003-11-29Description:This collection contains objects of general relevance to the LIVE Biennial of Performance Art 2003, including promotional materials, listings, and articles.
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Date:2003-11-09Genre:performance artDescription:Two performances occurred simultaneously in adjoining rooms. Each performance reflects the disparate bodies of work that the two artists pursue separately. When they interface with each other (either purposefully or accidentally) a third performance will begin. This exploration occurs with the use...
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Title:Date:2003-11-22Genre:performance artDescription:Part drive-in theatre, part live radio show, 'Half-a-Tank' took place in a large parking lot at 1st Avenue and Ontario Street, where audience members, seated inside their cars, parked in a large circle facing inward. Inside the circle, a solitary car rotated endlessly without a driver....
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Date:2003-11-17Genre:performance artDescription:In A Simple Truth, Belmore discusses her process of creating work through a narrative involving her connection to the suicide of a student with whom she worked with during a residency. During the performance, she lies down while being surrounded by glasses with candles lit inside that are carried...
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Date:2003-11-24Genre:performance artDescription:The hole of the female genital organs may appear in another part of the body, the penis as a stiffness or as a piece of wood somewhere else. The artist takes on the role of patient and survivor of psychaitry, and attempts to convey the experience of sexuality while under Haldol, which can relocate...
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Date:2003-11-20-2003-11-22Genre:performance artDescription:A three-day online performance exchange between Sydney, Australia, Vancouver, Canada, and Lancaster, UK. Chiasma presented live streams of Léa Donnan's Adult Female, Rebecca Belmore's Tent City, and Hester Reeve's The British Umpire to audiences at Imperial Slacks, grunt gallery, and...
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Date:2003-11-15Genre:performance artDescription:Select works from Gregory's series How to Predict the Weather Using a Pig Spleen were presented at Video In. For the month of November the studio was turned into a four week long working space as Gregory reworked technical elements of this series and incorporated current ideas.
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Title:Date:2003-11-14-2003-12-06Genre:art exhibitionsDescription:Since the early 1980s Stitt has collected photo snapshots of people and places in his adopted community in London and wherever he traveled making performances. As such these images function as a connection with a moment, a memory; as cultural artifacts and signifiers of events. The photos are...
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Date:2003-11-23Genre:discussions (events)Description:The final Sunday panel at grunt gallery of LIVE 2003, Trauma and Endurance engaged panelists and the audience in a discussion of laden performance: durational works addressing heavy topics, and their effect on perfomers. MacLennan, Nieslony, and Vaara are all members of Black Market International,...
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Date:2003-11-29Genre:musicDescription:For the closing reception of LIVE 2003, the Rodney Graham Band performed at The Drink in Vancouver. Rodney Graham is one of Canada's leading international artists. His work in every medium can be traced to a performance art sensibility. His interests also lie in music, especially rock n'...
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Date:2003-11-20Genre:performance artDescription:Lezli Rubin-Kunda spent five days wandering Vancouver, collecting plant materials, debris, and assorted objects: a process of playing and exploring the intertwining of the magnificent and the mundane, from primal forest to parking lots. After exploring the properties and possibilities of gathered...
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Date:2003-10-25Genre:performance artDescription:"Picnic" sites were chosen for their potential areas of leisure as well as their unique and sometimes awkward placement in the city. Pedestrians were encouraged to join and participate in these site-specific picnics. This closing reception included thorough photo documentation of many...
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Title:Date:2003-11-13Genre:performance artDescription:Matching outfits and brightly coloured dance shoes were Norma's uniform for this performance that emphasized and undermined the boundaries that separate audience and performer. This performance was presented by Access Gallery.
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Title:Date:2003-11-01Genre:performance artDescription:The performance group One Night Only work by taking over alternate or empty spaces to create site-specific installation work in dialogue with the form and function of the space. Six artists inhabited the space of the Bartlett Exhibition and Performance Space for a week, drawing inspiration for...
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Date:2003-11-15Genre:performance artDescription:Over the first two weeks of November, Forkert convened small groups of participants to perform everyday activities together in public and private spaces, drawing attention to the experience of time and the possibilities of spending time together. At this closing event participants and the public...