| Thursday, October 15, 2009 |
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Body PluralLIVE2009 gets off to a hot start with Body Plural. A bevy of artists perform in the steamy hot corridors of the Hastings Steam & Sauna. Male and female friendly. Clothing optional. Towels provided. $10 cover charge.
Curated by: Naúfus Ramirez-Figueroa
Whether it's at the local recreational centre, day spa, or vacation spot, the sauna is often one of the only times we present an unashamed vision of our bodies to the community. Here it doesn't matter if our stomachs are less than flat, our bodies pale, or our toenails untrimmed. The sauna maybe the first time we see our parents or grandparents naked, or discover we are not the only ones with freckles or moles in odd places. For hundreds of years attending the sauna has been a communal event, a place to chat and catch up on gossip. For the gay community the sauna has been especially significant, the Stonewall Riots started at a sauna in New York.
The Performances presented at this event take into account the properties of the sauna: its heat and wetness. These Performances also speak about the history and memories embedded in a historical building like the Hastings Steam & Sauna, a building which in the early 20th century served loggers who had no access to showers in the local rooming houses of the DES; And which today serves a diverse clientele of gay men and Eastern European families who rent it out on occasion. The opening for Live 2009 brings us back to the body, to the communal plural body; and reminds us on a tactile level of the nature and function of a medium like Performance art.
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8-11pm |
Naúfus Ramirez-Figueroa ⊕
Rocco Trigueros ⊕
Francisco-Fernando Granados ⊕
Paul Couillard ⊕
Todd Janes ⊕
Velveeta Krisp |
Hastings Steam & Sauna
766 East Hastings St
$10 cover |
| Friday, October 16, 2009 |
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LIVE GALA Cabaret BenefitThe LIVE Gala Cabaret Benefit invites the world to the launch of the 6th biennale with Vancouver's first post-recession, post-cuts celebration of being alive. A night of frivolous fun and courageous cabaret acts. A cornucopia of craziness. Exclusive opportunities to purchase private Performances by our thriving community of artists. Anything can and probably will happen.
Cabaret Performancers:
Booshmeeka (aka Priscilla Costa)…Priscilla went to art school to be a clown then went to clown school and couldn't stop analyzing the shit of it. An act not to be missed!
Joomi Seo and Heidi Nagtegaal…Collaborative music performance with Joomi Seo performing the "church organ" on electric keyboard and Heidi Nagtegaal performing poems written by her and others, addressing spirituality, life, and death.
Payday Millionaire…Rob (drums & voice) and Jeremy (voice & guitar) make new music with unflappable do-it-yourself chutzpah. They can't help it. http://www.myspace.com/paydaymillionaire
VELVIS is an Elvis Tribute Artist. She rocks!
Los Hermanos Quemacho…Los Hermanos Quemacho presentan Cuidadito…
April O’Peel…Winner of Comedic and Satirical Brilliance at the 2009 Vancouver International Burlesque Festival and voted 3rd favorite comedienne in the Georgia Straight's best of, this busty blonde bombshell will have rolling in the aisles with her comedic dance styles.
C. Snatch Z….a Japanese dancer, cabaret star and Performance artists. Her wild mix-ups of burlesque, strip-tease, satire, politics and pop references have left audiences dazzled in clubs, cabarets and galleries throughout Japan and Internationally. |
8pm |
Various artists performing for your viewing pleasure.
Several artists donated Performances for your purchasing pleasure. |
Chapel Arts
304 Dunlevy Ave
$10 cover |
| Saturday, October 17, 2009 |
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PerformancePresented by grunt gallery
www.grunt.ca |
3-6pm |
Jennifer Campbell ⊕ |
Opus Art & Design Media
100-207 West Hasting St |
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Keynote Speech |
7pm |
Chumpon Apisuk ⊕ |
Chapel Arts
304 Dunlevy Ave |
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PerformanceWith the generous support of the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Ministry of Culture, and The Royal Kingdom of Thailand. |
8pm |
Tanya Lukin-Linklater ⊕
Lee Wen ⊕
Chumpon Apisuk ⊕
Paul Couillard ⊕
Shannon Cochrane
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Chapel Arts
304 Dunlevy Ave |
| Sunday, October 18, 2009 |
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Sound InstallationCurated by Joomi Seo |
1:30-4pm |
Neal Rockwell ⊕ |
Chapel Arts
304 Dunlevy Ave |
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Roundtable DiscussionSponsored by CASV
www.casv.ca |
2pm |
Esther Ferrer ⊕
Lee Wen ⊕
Paul Couillard ⊕
Shannon Cochrane ⊕
Valentin Torrens ⊕ |
Chapel Arts
304 Dunlevy Ave |
| Monday, October 19, 2009 |
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PerformanceCurated by Daina Warren |
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Richard Tawhanga Kereopa ⊕ |
EVENT CANCELLED
due to travel circumstances. |
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PerformanceCurated by Daina Warren |
7-11pm |
Peter Morin ⊕ |
Chapel Arts
304 Dunlevy Ave |
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Victoria PerformancePresented with Open Space, Victoria. |
8pm |
Lee Wen ⊕ |
Open Space
510 Fort St. Victoria |
| Tuesday, October 20, 2009 |
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PerformanceCurated by Daina Warren |
2-6pm |
Richard Tawhanga Kereopa ⊕ |
EVENT CANCELLED due to travel circumstances. Somewhere on Davie St, Vancouver |
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PerformanceCurated by Daina Warren |
7-11pm |
Peter Morin ⊕ |
Chapel Arts
304 Dunlevy Ave |
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PerformanceAdmission: $10 plus Gallery admission (by donation Tuesday evening). Tickets for sale at the door only.
Internationally renowned Performance artist Esther Ferrer presents her work in this rare Performance at the Gallery.
Supported by SEACEX and Consolate général de France á Vancouver.
Presented with the Vancouver Art Gallery
Curated by Randy Gledhill of LIVE2009 |
7pm |
Esther Ferrer ⊕ |
Vancouver Art Gallery
Courtroom 302, 750 Hornby St |
| Wednesday, October 21, 2009 |
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PerformanceCurated by Daina Warren |
2-6pm |
Richard Tawhanga Kereopa ⊕ |
EVENT CANCELLED due to travel circumstances. Somewhere on Davie St, Vancouver |
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PerformancePresented by VIVO |
4-7 pm |
Margaret Dragu ⊕ |
VIVO
1965 Main St |
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PerformanceCurated by Daina Warren |
7-11pm |
Peter Morin ⊕ |
Chapel Arts
304 Dunlevy Ave |
| Thursday, October 22, 2009 |
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PerformanceCurated by Daina Warren |
2-6pm |
Richard Tawhanga Kereopa ⊕ |
EVENT CANCELLED due to travel circumstances. Somewhere on Davie St, Vancouver |
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PerformancePresented by VIVO |
4-7 pm |
Margaret Dragu ⊕ |
VIVO
1965 Main St |
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PerformanceCurated by Daina Warren |
7-11pm |
Peter Morin ⊕ |
Chapel Arts
304 Dunlevy Ave |
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The Politics of RomanceCurated by Debra XM Zhou
Exhibition: October 22 - October 31
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 22, 8pm.
This exhibition features three emerging Canadian artists Tara Arnst, Francisco-Fernando Granados and Sarah Viscardi Harruthoonyan. Through presenting their documentation of live Performance as video installation in a gallery setting, the artists explore alternative ways of looking at live Performance, the transformative nature of actions and the renewal of meanings. |
8pm |
Tara Arnst ⊕
Francisco-Fernando Granados ⊕
Sarah Viscardi Harruthoonyan ⊕ |
221A Artist Run Centre
221 East Georgia St |
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Earthly Delights?Curated by Francisco-Fernando Granados
With hands and tongues, 3 emerging Vancouver artists embody the intangible for one night of Performance in Earthly Delights? The corporeal, the intellectual and the metaphysical mix as they grapple with power, pleasure and the lines between the conscious and the unconscious. |
8pm |
Zarah Ackerman ⊕
Francis and Patrick Cruz ⊕
Manolo Lugo ⊕ |
221A Artist Run Centre
221 East Georgia St |
| Friday, October 23, 2009 |
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PerformanceCurated by Daina Warren |
2-6pm |
Richard Tawhanga Kereopa ⊕ |
EVENT CANCELLED due to travel circumstances. Somewhere on Davie St, Vancouver |
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The Politics of RomanceCurated by Debra XM Zhou
Exhibition: October 22 - October 31
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 22, 8pm.
This exhibition features three emerging Canadian artists Tara Arnst, Francisco-Fernando Granados and Sarah Viscardi Harruthoonyan. Through presenting their documentation of live Performance as video installation in a gallery setting, the artists explore alternative ways of looking at live Performance, the transformative nature of actions and the renewal of meanings. |
2-8pm |
Tara Arnst ⊕
Francisco-Fernando Granados ⊕
Sarah Viscardi Harruthoonyan ⊕ |
221A Artist Run Centre
221 East Georgia St |
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PerformancePresented by VIVO |
4-7 pm |
Margaret Dragu ⊕ |
VIVO
1965 Main St |
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Performance |
8pm |
Gwendoline Robin ⊕ |
Robson St Courthouse steps at the Vancouver Art Gallery |
| Saturday, October 24, 2009 |
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The Politics of RomanceCurated by Debra XM Zhou
Exhibition: October 22 - October 31
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 22, 8pm.
This exhibition features three emerging Canadian artists Tara Arnst, Francisco-Fernando Granados and Sarah Viscardi Harruthoonyan. Through presenting their documentation of live Performance as video installation in a gallery setting, the artists explore alternative ways of looking at live Performance, the transformative nature of actions and the renewal of meanings. |
12-5pm |
Tara Arnst ⊕
Francisco-Fernando Granados ⊕
Sarah Viscardi Harruthoonyan ⊕ |
221A Artist Run Centre
221 East Georgia St |
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PerformanceProduced with the generous support of Consulat Général de France à Vancouver. |
8pm |
Léa Le Bricomte ⊕
Nadia Mancer ⊕
Loic Connanski ⊕
Johanna Householder ⊕
Valentin Torrens ⊕ |
Chapel Arts
304 Dunlevy Ave |
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Fresh Hot TypeProduced by W2 and Fresh Media, in association with LIVE Biennale and Heart of the City Festival. LIVE is an associate member of W2. Fresh Hot Type follows a day-long Fresh Media conference http://freshmedia.me
Performative typesetting with MCs scrambling to mix up twitter-length lyrics freshly typeset by the audience on a heritage letterpress. Plus live music with The Funk Hunters, DJs, and live screens streaming the world wide web into and out of the space. |
8pm |
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W2
112 West Hastings
$5 Cover |
| Sunday, October 25, 2009 |
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The Politics of RomanceCurated by Debra XM Zhou
Exhibition: October 22 - October 31
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 22, 8pm.
This exhibition features three emerging Canadian artists Tara Arnst, Francisco-Fernando Granados and Sarah Viscardi Harruthoonyan. Through presenting their documentation of live Performance as video installation in a gallery setting, the artists explore alternative ways of looking at live Performance, the transformative nature of actions and the renewal of meanings. |
11-3pm |
Tara Arnst ⊕
Francisco-Fernando Granados ⊕
Sarah Viscardi Harruthoonyan ⊕ |
221A Artist Run Centre
221 East Georgia St |
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Online PerformancePresented by Neutral Ground via http://www.turnerprize.ca
Turner Prize*, a Regina-based art collective is comprised of: Jason Cawood, Blair Fornwald, and JG Hampton. They've toured the US and Canada collecting dreams for their growing visual archive of other peoples' dreams. Turner Prize*s medium of choice is performative photography though they also do live and technologically mediated Performance and occasionally conduct audio experiments as the electro-acoustic group "Hidden Secret."
For their web based interactive Performance Ice Cream! the three members of Turner Prize* will simultaneously perform webcam shows where visitors to the site may choose whomever they would like to perform for them. Each of the three performers will be holding an ice cream cone and licking ice cream when a visitor clicks a button marked “lick!”. Depending on the number of visitors and the frequency with which they instruct the artists to “lick!," each Performance may be a nauseatingly overindulgent durational piece, an innuendo-laden cam-girl/boy show, or a sad, sticky, drippy scene. The work highlights the tendency for sophisticated technologies to be used for moderately entertaining or mundane ends. "Interactivity" is reduced to button-clicking, with each click producing a fairly predictable and unspectacular effect. Despite these parodic constraints, the resulting Performance is drastically altered through the degree of viewer interaction.
You may participate in this Performance from any Web connection including your cell phone from 2-5pm PST on October 25, 2009 or visit one of the host stations in Vancouver.
Neutral Ground
Contemporary Art Forum
Neutral Ground is a artist run centre whose mission is to develop visual and new media art by presenting artists whose work emphasizes critical and conceptual innovation or interdisciplinarity. The centre has a diverse programming history that has challenged existing paradigms in the arts and pioneered social change in tandem with the developing region that is Saskatchewan. Neutral Ground also has a vibrant Web presence and produces several public art projects throughout the year. |
2pm |
Turner Prize ⊕ |
Chapel Arts
304 Dunlevy Ave |
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Roundtable Discussion |
2pm |
Jacques Van Poppel ⊕
Jonas Stampe
Léa Le Bricomte ⊕
Nadia Mercer ⊕
Loic Connanski ⊕
Gwendoline Robin ⊕
Johanna Householder ⊕ |
Chapel Arts
304 Dunlevy Ave |
| Monday, October 26, 2009 |
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The Politics of RomanceCurated by Debra XM Zhou
Exhibition: October 22 - October 31
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 22, 8pm.
This exhibition features three emerging Canadian artists Tara Arnst, Francisco-Fernando Granados and Sarah Viscardi Harruthoonyan. Through presenting their documentation of live Performance as video installation in a gallery setting, the artists explore alternative ways of looking at live Performance, the transformative nature of actions and the renewal of meanings. |
2-8pm |
Tara Arnst ⊕
Francisco-Fernando Granados ⊕
Sarah Viscardi Harruthoonyan ⊕ |
221A Artist Run Centre
221 East Georgia St |
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Disco Fallout Shelter - Reserving EnergyReserving Energy: Slow Dance and Lectures
Scott Smith: As Slow as Possible, a film which follows blind author
Ryan Knighton on a pilgrimage to Germany to hear a single note change
in the 639 year-long performance of the John Cage composition
Organ'/ASLSP
David Wyse: Slow Food Lecture, Fast Food Served
Jenny Rose: event host and music in the style of Awkward and Slow
Instant Information: two artists, still to be determined, will present
youtube lectures on survival or on stuff they'd like to take with them
into a DFS. |
8-11pm |
Instant Coffee ⊕ |
Bestway
21 East Pender St |
| Tuesday, October 27, 2009 |
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PerformanceCurated by Daina Warren |
2pm |
Gustavo Alvarez ⊕ |
TBA |
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The Politics of RomanceCurated by Debra XM Zhou
Exhibition: October 22 - October 31
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 22, 8pm.
This exhibition features three emerging Canadian artists Tara Arnst, Francisco-Fernando Granados and Sarah Viscardi Harruthoonyan. Through presenting their documentation of live Performance as video installation in a gallery setting, the artists explore alternative ways of looking at live Performance, the transformative nature of actions and the renewal of meanings. |
2-8pm |
Tara Arnst ⊕
Francisco-Fernando Granados ⊕
Sarah Viscardi Harruthoonyan ⊕ |
221A Artist Run Centre
221 East Georgia St |
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Disco Fallout Shelter - Resource ManagementResource Management: Preparing for Disasters Natural and Otherwise
Marianne Bos: Natural Disasters and Finances
Instant Coffee: Resource Management: Free Stuff
Jen Weih: How Deep Is Your Disaster (I'm at the combination Pizza Hut
and Taco Bell) Aesthetics, Capitalism, Art and Living
Allison Hrabluik: Slide Show on Fort McMurray and the Tar Sands
Instant Information: two artists, still to be determined, will present
youtube lectures on survival or on stuff they'd like to take with them
into a DFS. |
8-11pm |
Instant Coffee ⊕ |
Bestway
21 East Pender St |
| Wednesday, October 28, 2009 |
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The Politics of RomanceCurated by Debra XM Zhou
Exhibition: October 22 - October 31
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 22, 8pm.
This exhibition features three emerging Canadian artists Tara Arnst, Francisco-Fernando Granados and Sarah Viscardi Harruthoonyan. Through presenting their documentation of live Performance as video installation in a gallery setting, the artists explore alternative ways of looking at live Performance, the transformative nature of actions and the renewal of meanings. |
2-8pm |
Tara Arnst ⊕
Francisco-Fernando Granados ⊕
Sarah Viscardi Harruthoonyan ⊕ |
221A Artist Run Centre
221 East Georgia St |
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OurTubeSpecial Presentation on Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto 2009
Centre A's curator Makiko Hara, was one of the three guest curators of the recent 2009 Nuit Blanche in Toronto. Her project Urban Disaster/Catastrophe/Survival Actions addressed the human universal human ability to accommodate and survive memories of war, disaster and catastrophe through strategic creative survival actions. For OurTube, several of the artists, along with the curator, will present a report on the exciting event. |
8pm |
Hosted by:
Makiko Hara
Norico Sunayama (C.Snatch.Z.) ⊕
Randy Gledhill
Hank Bull |
Centre A
2 West Hastings St |
| Thursday, October 29, 2009 |
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The Politics of RomanceCurated by Debra XM Zhou
Exhibition: October 22– October 31
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 22, 8pm.
This exhibition features three emerging Canadian artists Tara Arnst, Francisco-Fernando Granados and Sarah Viscardi Harruthoonyan. Through presenting their documentation of live Performance as video installation in a gallery setting, the artists explore alternative ways of looking at live Performance, the transformative nature of actions and the renewal of meanings. |
2-8pm |
Tara Arnst ⊕
Francisco-Fernando Granados ⊕
Sarah Viscardi Harruthoonyan ⊕ |
221A Artist Run Centre
221 East Georgia St |
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IntersectionsIntersections is an artistic inquiry into social and economic convergences, geographic landmarks and reminiscences about current and historical thoroughfares. Two writers, Sarah Buchanan and Caleb Johnston and two composers, James Maxwell and Brady Marks will be invited to create musical, sonic and literary commentaries in response to two geographical locations. These works will be presented in three stages involving public intervention, a concert setting and an online installation of podcasts, twitter updates and literary works.
A strange abandoned concrete monument at the corner of Clark and the Grandview Highway, nestled between two main trucking routes, a rail yard, and a Skytrain station will be the site and subject of one collaboration. As the work develops, previews and information will seep out through Twitter updates and later documented online as a literary and audio podcast. Stay tuned to www.front.bc.ca and twitter.com/frontmagazine for more details on locations.
Additional musical/literary collaborations will include Kaspoit!, a new work based on an upcoming novel by Dennis E. Bolen with vocalist/electronic music composer Soressa Gardner. The work explores new approaches to language and music and puts speculative illustration to some of the most brutal Western Canada crimes of the recent past. It is a pure exploration of the ‘banality of evil', chilling and outrageous. and artist Jeremy Todd's inquiry into unfulfilled ideas and arrested communications in Not Sent Letters with music by Graham Meisner.
Presented with FRONT Magazine and part of Clamour presented by Sonic Presence |
5-7pm |
Sarah Buchanan
Caleb Johnston
James Maxwell
Brady Marks
Dennis E. Bolen
Soressa Gardner
Jeremy Todd
Graham Meisner |
Western Front
303 East 8th Ave
$10 cover |
| Friday, October 30, 2009 |
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PerformanceProduced by Centre A |
12-6pm |
Norico Sunayama ⊕ |
Centre A
2 West Hastings St |
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The Politics of RomanceCurated by Debra XM Zhou
Exhibition: October 22 - October 31
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 22, 8pm.
This exhibition features three emerging Canadian artists Tara Arnst, Francisco-Fernando Granados and Sarah Viscardi Harruthoonyan. Through presenting their documentation of live Performance as video installation in a gallery setting, the artists explore alternative ways of looking at live Performance, the transformative nature of actions and the renewal of meanings. |
2-8pm |
Tara Arnst ⊕
Francisco-Fernando Granados ⊕
Sarah Viscardi Harruthoonyan ⊕ |
221A Artist Run Centre
221 East Georgia St |
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Performance |
8pm |
Chuyia Chia ⊕
Jacques Van Poppel ⊕
Gustavo Alvarez ⊕
Kevin McKenzie ⊕
Leslie Mark Overland ⊕ |
Chapel Arts
304 Dunlevy Ave |
| Saturday, October 31, 2009 |
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The Politics of RomanceCurated by Debra XM Zhou
Exhibition: October 22 - October 31
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 22, 8pm.
This exhibition features three emerging Canadian artists Tara Arnst, Francisco-Fernando Granados and Sarah Viscardi Harruthoonyan. Through presenting their documentation of live Performance as video installation in a gallery setting, the artists explore alternative ways of looking at live Performance, the transformative nature of actions and the renewal of meanings. |
12-5pm |
Tara Arnst ⊕
Francisco-Fernando Granados ⊕
Sarah Viscardi Harruthoonyan ⊕ |
221A Artist Run Centre
221 East Georgia St |
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PerformanceProduced by Centre A |
12-6pm |
Norico Sunayama ⊕ |
Centre A
2 West Hastings St |
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Vampyre Love BallProduced by Centre A
In conjunction with Heart of the City Festival |
8pm |
C.Snatch Z. ⊕
Les Fermieères Obsédées ⊕
Skeena Reece ⊕
Geumhyung Jeong ⊕ |
Chapel Arts
304 Dunlevy Ave
$10 cover |
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hear/say
Call for submissionsIntervention Street Performances by emerging artists.
Submissions will be accepted throughout the LIVE2009 festival
Emerging artists have the opportunity to participate in LIVE2009 through public performances taking place outside the gallery walls, on Vancouver streets. In hear/say artists can propose to utter their say or receive others. They can either wander among the masses or sit on the flanks to offer an active ear with an unsuspecting public while they explore how our fast paced society where the noise of our environment can be deafening, wearing our patience and blurring languages.
Submit details of your Performance, the where what when how as well as a short artist statement and bio (both about 1 paragraph long)...by email to info@livebiennale.ca.
Curated by Ikbal Singh |
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Emilio Rojas
Brian Rush
dance troupe practice
Heidi Nagtegaal |
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