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…

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…

Parizeau dedicates her work to freedom and the demystification of enlightenment. In this piece she represents the dream state and explores themes of death and rebirth symbolically through the psychological hysteria of a clown. This piece unfolds…

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…

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.

This durational performance explores notions of fluidity in identity through a series of costumes, wigs, and make-up. Each costume or 'persona' of popular housewives (both real and fictional) was documented and produced as a series of…

Roi Vaara has been most active in Finland, becoming one of the country's most internationally recognized performance artists. His work since 1982 emphasizes an aesthetic discourse between the artwork and its specific place or situation.

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…

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

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…

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…

Fisher’s narrative embeds upon two complementary, London installations by Joseph Beuys. The narrative is encouraged by Beuys’ arrangement of his works and is stimulated by the show production of meaning the viewer participates in through research.…

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…

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…

This collection contains objects of general relevance to the LIVE Biennial of Performance Art 2003, including promotional materials, listings, and articles.

The fourth in a series of panel discussions on performance art organized for LIVE 2003. This panel engaged practitioners within, adjacent to, and outside of the performance discipline in a discussion on artistic process.

Randy and Berenicci, members of One Night Only, Lizard Jones, and Susan Stewart, LIVE performers working in partnerships and collectives, discuss the nature of working collaboratively in performance in this third panel of LIVE Biennial of…

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…

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…

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…