With assistance from the BC Arts Council and the BC Museums Association, the Western Front has expanded its online archive of events, images, sound recordings, and other information intended to assist researchers interested in the programming and activities of the Western Front Society.

Western Front Research Library

Critical Writing

Recently Added Texts

    • Kate Craig: Skin
    • Grant Arnold
    • Skin: The continuous flexible integument forming the usual external covering of an animal body … Anything which resembles skin in nature or use; an outer coat or covering of anything. The Oxford English Dictionary Kate Craig took up video in the mid-1970s, an hi…  MORE >
    • Kate Craig: Living in Character
    • Karen Henry
    • Kate Craig is well known for her videotapes and for fostering the video production program at the Western Front starting in 1976, but her participation in the flurry of performance activities on the West Coast in the 1970s provided the foundation and opportunity for he…  MORE >
    • Personal Perspective
    • Kate Craig
    • Intermedia had grown so large by the winter of 1971 that special interest groups had developed, and different people had acquired their own equipment. We submitted an enormous proposal to LIP (Local Initiatives Program) for a grant that would hire something like 79 art…  MORE >
    • Kate Craig Bibliography
    • Adelman, Shonagh. “Redefining the Female Subject: Five Feminist Videotapes.” C Magazine Summer 1991: 24-32. Bull, Hank, and Sharla Sava. “”Skin: A Conversation with Kate Craig”” BOO Magazine 1998: 8-13. Centre Culturel Canad…  MORE >

Media Archive

From the Archives

    • Video >
    • October 18th, 1983
    • Soap and Water
    • Richard Layzell
    • ‘What to say about a work which grew from so many chance occurencs and coincidences at every stage. Looking back, now in England, it feels as if Soap and Water had its own life from the moment we set of in Connie’s Volvo headed north for Robert’s Cree…  MORE >
    • Video >
    • December 13th, 1978
    • Envisioner
    • Tom Sherman
    • ‘A man (Sherman) speaks through a wall of words. He looks out through successive split-second breaks in this video wall of words to see the audience. He tells the audience he doesn’t believe they are all ‘one of a kind’ (individuals). From the o…  MORE >
    • Audio >
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    • Paul Plimley and Ernst Reijseger
    • “I remember the session I did with Ernst. It was in 1983 I played and recorded a session with him. There was no concert, only an informal putting some of our music on tape. I think this was Ernst’s first time in Vancouver… before the first jazz festiv…  MORE >