One Thing Follows Another
More information on Evan Parker’s LP “Vaincu.Va! Live at Western Front 1978″ can be found here. The first impulse, on revisiting this extraordinary concert from…
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The Archive is a categorized and filtered collection of every event that has ever taken place at Western Front we have a record for, spanning as far back as 1973. In addition to events, you'll find residencies, audio/video clips and other forms of documentation.
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Acoustic Cartography: Performing the Map
“As for Acoustic cartography, I would make the —perhaps somewhat provocative— assertion that it is not possible.” – Barry Truax, Acoustic Cartography Event, Western Front, April…
There Went Everybody: A Centennial Reflection
American composer Alvin Curran was a colleague of 20th century pioneer John Cage. As part of a world wide 100th anniversary celebration of Cage, Curran shared…
Erratics: Surveying the landscape with Fennesz
The track “Wind on Water” from the 1975 LP Evening Star by Robert Fripp and Brian Eno was probably the first notable attempt at evoking…
Clamour: Intersections
Intersections is an artistic inquiry into social and economic convergences, geographic landmarks and reminiscences about current and historical thoroughfares. Two writers, Sarah Buchanan and Caleb…
When it Rains: Experimental Music and The Cultural Ecology
In Septermber 2007 Ellen Waterman, flutist/vocalist and music professor and researcher visited the site of artist Gordon Monahan’s audio installation Aquaeolian Harp on the banks…
Kate Craig: Living in Character
Profile of Kate Craig by Karen Henry from Caught in the Act, An Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women. Edited by Tanya Mars and Johanna…
Corporeal Returns: Feminism and Phenomenology in Vancouver Video and Performance 1968-1983
Essay by Marina Roy, first published in Canadian Art, Summer 2001.
Kate Craig: Skin
Essay by Grant Arnold from the publication of the same name published in 1998 by the Vancouver Art Gallery. Additional essays by Nicole Gingras and…