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…

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…

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

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…

An illustrated lecture and presentation by guest British curator Rob La Frenais at grunt gallery. A chance to inspire future co-productions and idea exchanges between the art world and the scientific community in the ever-fascinating realm of space…

Boris Nieslony has worked in performance art since the 1970's and is the founder of Black Market International. He works extensively around the world organizing and networking performance art activity.

'Barbed Wire' is McMurry's autobiographical performance that will challenge our perceptions and emotions. We witness him in states of physical danger as he performs defiant and dangerous activities that young boys specifically engage…

This performance is inspired by the book "Empire" by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt with its philosophical and political propositions of shifting configurations of racism. However, it is clear that racism has not receded but actually…

Randy and Berenicci, dressed as nomadic travelers, appear to float in False Creek on a sculpture engulfed in flames. From the land, viewers used an optically assisted telescope to create the illusion of the performers waling endlessly through the…

No other artist of the twentieth century who engaged in war on the side of doing wrong has been as celebrated as German artist Joseph Beuys. In an unprecedented examination of the way Beuys' iconography relates to National Socialism, Stiles…

Reality is mirrored through video feeds that have real guests dining with virtual ones in this intimate and eerie experience. Video guests address real guests in arbitrary conversations as if they were able to see them. Guests can respond to the…

"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…

Alastair MacLennan is knowns for long durational performances with concerns of ethic, religious/political bigotry, tolerance, social improvement, death, mutation, and transformation. His performance for LIVE 2003, Rove Over, was part of Black Market…

Hungry Ghosts is a five channel video installation that features a mix of Wong's past video and performance works touching on the recurring subject of death. The video installation provides an ephemeral form where interdisciplinary elements…

The second in a series of Sunday panels at grunt gallery exploring notions of performance from the perspective of practitioners and the academy and the complex relationship the form of performance art has negotiated with institutional representation…

In principle all objects or actions are potential sources of sound. For his performance, Shawn Bristow slowly dismantles an electric guitar while it is plugged in. Without creating any traditional compositions or music, the guitar will provide an…

"I am fascinated by memory...a subtle tone in the voice, a colour, a smell or a sudden light end up being part of our memories and, ultimately, being part of us." Jocelyn Robert is a multidisciplinary artist from Quebec City. Known for his…

Dallas creates a moving sculpture by transforming animal hides into abstract forms and sculptures, applying 'tattoo-like' designs and free verse poetry to the surfaces. The plains of the skins are screens into which she will project her…

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…

Barabas illustrates the body as a vessel for energy, essence, and idea. A tattoo excavates the seamline between the front and back of the artist's body. The artist asks, what is the connection? what do we contain? and what is the nature of the…

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…

The opening reception for Peter Conlin's Freedom, a performative exhibition that ran for for the following two weeks. Conlin used the gallery as a studio to create installations in an improvisational way, setting up several different zones to…

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…

Stiles, Robert, Arcand, and Alteen and the audience discuss the nature and veracity of performance art documentation, the impulse to document and publish as a function of arts institutions, and the interplay of theory born of intuition and…

"Take that paint!! Put it there!! You can do it!! Cause you care!!" After quitting art school, Gifford committed to a year-long regimen of physical training for cheerleading. She performs her "opening cheers" designed to unite…