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 31st, 1983
    • Canada Shadows
    • Martin Bartlett, Hank Bull, Kate Craig, Glenn Lewis and Patrick Ready
    • ‘This video tape is not so much a documentation as a translation of our shadow experience into the video mode using material from various productions as the basis for an exploration of the possibilities offered by the video medium. The tape was produced mainly by…  MORE >
    • Video >
    • September 15th, 1984
    • Sax Island
    • Hank Bull and Eric Metcalfe
    • ‘Sax Island is a dense and complicated anti-narrative told in fast comic-book images, with live actors in cartoon movement keyed over colourful watercolour backdrops. The artists are interested both in the formal possibilities of combining painting with video (th…  MORE >
    • Video >
    • February 28th, 1995
    • Imbalance 2
    • George Bures Miller
    • George did a re-cut of the loop for this piece while he was at the Front working on the Black Pool installation.…  MORE >