LIVE at the End of the Century
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Title:Date:1999-10-16Genre:performance artDescription:Ablakela, meaning 'calm' in the Lakota language, is a performance work by Dana Claxton, accompanied by Peyote Singers Johnny Mike and Verdell Primeaux of The Native American Church. The performance employs a large video projection of Claxton braiding grass live accompanied by singing,...
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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:1999-10-09Genre: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:1999-10-26Genre:performance artDescription:Vancouver artist Sandra Lockwood is known for her strong, graceful, emotional performances. Lockwood presented a song/poem cycle based loosely on the life and work of astronomer/inventor Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687) and his wife Elizabeth as part of ALA's Havana Gallery Series, curated by...
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Date:1999-10-23-1999-10-24Genre:performance artDescription:Chen and Michalofski will be gathering sound and smell information from locales around Vancouver. They will have a market stand presentation in the market where visitors can sample the audio-smell guides that result. These guides take them them through a sequence of sound recordings and...
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Title:Date:1999-10-19Genre:performance artDescription:Lori Blondeau's Bleached takes a humorous and poignant look at Indigenous family life, identity, whiteness, and discrimination framed as the familiar chatty dialogue at a salon or home haircare session. This performance was curated by Lynn Hill of the ALA Collective as part of the Havana...
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Date:1999-10-01-1999-11-06Description:This collection contains objects of general relevance to LIVE at the End of the Century 1999, including promotional materials, listings, and articles.
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Title:Date:1999-10-19Genre:performance artDescription:Alice was performed as part of ALA's Havana Gallery series and was curated by Lynn Hill. A monologue rich with moments of reflection and humour, Thirza Cuthand's Alice examines survival, visibility, and intersecting Queer and Indigenous identities as Lewis Carroll's Alice, who also...
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Title:Date:1999-10-07Genre:performance artDescription:Sector X: the hot new work by New Zealand fetish/punk artist Satina Saturnina (Victoria Singh with Derek Champion and Chris Swain). A 45 minute autoerotic journey in two sexual stages, symbolizing mental states associated with the orgasmic process. They are presented as seemingly dadaesque worlds...