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
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- A Noisy Brush with the Infinite
- A Noisy Brush with the Infinite – Laura U. Marks CLICK HERE TO READ… MORE >
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- Corporeal Returns: Feminism and Phenomenology in Vancouver Video and Performance 1968-1983
- Marina Roy
- Scene: September 1975; Vancouver Small Claims Court; Diana Douglas in the witness box after being sworn in by the judge. Judge: Your name please. Douglas: Diana Douglas. Judge: Miss or Mrs.? Douglas: Ms. Judge: Pardon? Douglas: Ms … M…S… Judge:… MORE >
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- 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 >
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- 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 >
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- 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 >
Media Archive
From the Archives
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- May 30th, 1992
- A Change of Face
- Andrew Wilson
- “In this delicate operation Andrew and friends, yet again, ritualistically slaughter that two faced bastard, purging evil, curing the sick, clensing mankind.” (FRONT v.3 n.5 May/June 1992 p.11)… MORE >
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- June 22nd, 1995
- Electric Eve Installation Loops
- Jenny Marketou
- Electronic Eve is a reconfiguration of a site-specific interactive work shown at the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida. Photographic panels depict moving images of a segmented female body. ”... I am creating shorts with video. The still i… MORE >