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LIVE at the End of the Century 1999 was the first LIVE Biennial of Performance Art and was conceived of and coordinated by Glenn Alteen and Brice Canyon. Eleven Vancouver arts organizations and countless individuals collaborated to produce five…

Jeanne Randolph leans against a podium, while Lorna Brown sets up the computer. Still from Syntax errors: Acting out, Play-Doh* and Doubt by Jeanne Randolph.

Projection of Fiona Bowie accompanying Marlene Madison's live performance. Still from Little Miss Mira.

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…

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…

Giant food, genetically modified organisms, Beckett and Marx (that's the brothers not Karl) combine in fusion cooking's maddest combo yet. Slapstick comedy is mutilated and disemboweled and now the organs are taking over. What happens when…

This 3 hour performance is based on a comedian's 5 minute solo routine taken from a late night talk show. All three artists wore identical clothing and repeating the monologues simultaneously including gestures, emotional expressions, and…

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…

A musician accompanying the performance plays the accordion. Still from Borderline Disorderly.

Collaborative work by Alastair MacLennan, Boris Nieslony, and Roi Vaara for Black Market International.

Lezli sits cross-legged on the floor, arranging found objects, while video documentation of her performance from the past 5 days screens in the background. Still from Intimate Investigations by Lezli Rubin-Kunda.

Nathalie Derome, Victoria Stanton, and Louise Dubreuil on stage at Cafe Montmartre. Still from Impure: Reinventing the Word: The Theory, Practice, and Oral History of 'Spoken Word' in Montreal with writers Vincent Tinguely and Victoria…

André smiles with an audience member who holds a book. Still from White Trash by André Stitt.

Larry Krone and his band perform on stage at the Anza Club. Still from A Country & Western Jamboree by Larry Krone.

Glenn Lewis at the mic with Jay McLaughlin, Lizard Jones, Victoria Singh, and Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa. Still from Mondo Artie Episode #6070 by Glenn Lewis.

Larry Krone at the microphone, with a ukelele, at the Anza Club. Still from A Country & Western Jamboree by Larry Krone.

A participant raises an audio-smell guide to their nose. Still from The Seven Sauces by Millie Chen and Evelyn Von Michalofski.

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…

Jeanne Randolph leans against a podium, in front of a projection of a Sigmund Freud. Still from Syntax errors: Acting out, Play-Doh* and Doubt by Jeanne Randolph.

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…

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…

A performance piece further exploring the persona La Abortada, who performed the previous piece "Western Lard: Fall of the American Hamburger." In this new piece, Ramírez-Figueroa explores Freudian theories of sexuality and modernist…

Projection of Ahmad Tabrizi accompanying Marlene Madison's live performance. Still from Little Miss Mira.

Rodney Graham and band perform at the Anza Club. Still from A Country & Western Jamboree by Larry Krone.

Empire is an allegory about the establishment of one of the largest corporations in the world. Au pair explores the often hilarious relationships of adventure-seeking childcare workers from Europe with their affluent American employers. A screening…