Stuff
Duration: 60 min 12 sec Original Format: ¾” Umatic Entry from Acts of Transfer: STUFF is a multi-layered performance narrative by artists Nao Bustamante and…
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Plan
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. IX, no. 1, p. 8, September/October 1997: Plan is a video-based installation that provides a surreptitious vantage-point for…
Performance by Dadang Christanto
Work is a performance in which Dadang made several clay heads which were filled with black paint and mounted on plynths. After painting himself white,…
Dangerous Border Game
A performance, the program of which reads, “Welcome to Dangerous Border Games, an interactive performance/installation designed to help you better understand your intercultural fears, and…
Jennifer Abbott: Residency
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. VIII, no. 1, p. 8, September/October 1996: Security Alert The Ontario Farm Animal Council (OFAC) has issued a…
Jaguar
A six channel video installation. A description of the work on the former Western Front website reads, “[b]ased on footage shot from a variety of…
Lani Maestro, Santiago Bose & Marilou Esguerra: Artists’ Talk and Discussion
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. VII, no. 4, p. 8, March/April 1996: Hosted by Hank Bull. Early in March a major exhibition opens…
Art and Community: an overview of work from 1990-1995
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. VII, no. 4, p. 7, March/April 1996: Battered cars perch on a grassy knoll in front of a…
Santiago Bose: Residency
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. VII, no. 4, p. 6, March/April 1996: Reception and video installation on Sunday, April 14 The art world…
Readings by Jodey Castricano, Jacqueline Larson & Roy Miki
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. VII, no. 3, p. 9, January/February 1996: Jodey Castricano has published in West Coast Line, How(ever), Open Letter, and has recently…
(Kan ya ma Kan) There was and there was not
From the artist: “This installation, serves to examine the representation of ‘Lebanon’, and its history as constructed in our collective and individual psyches. Lebanon has been used…
The Bardo Gap
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. VI, no. 1, p. 24, September/October 1994: Margaret Dragu harvests Video, Dance, Music & Sound from her esoteric…
Jeff Mann: Residency, Workshop & Performance
FREE TV, round table discussion, April 11 TV FREE NET, performance, April 22 The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. V, no. 4, p. 8,…
Home Truths
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. V, no. 3, p. 7 January/February 1994: It’s January. Another get-together is due. Last year, we…
Mz. Frankenstein
Artist in residence. A video production adapted from Mars’ Ms. Frankenstein performance. It takes the form of an imagistic narrative presented in the classic “infomercial” style.…
Mz. Frankenstein
Entry from Acts of Transfer: Duration: 22 min 55 sec Format: ¾” Umatic The documentation of Mz. Frankenstein opens with a black screen paired with the…
Triumph of Vulgarity Cabaret
The following text is taken from Front Magazine vol. V, no. 1, p. 12, September/October 1993: Queer City Performance Festival follows on an annual performance series organized…
Big Fat Slenderella
Special video production. The Big Fat Short is a first step in the editing of collected video material for a larger project, The Big Fat Feature.…
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