The Western Front

4 Results for “2007”

1. • 1. Noise on the Western Front:
     Music and Sound around Mount Pleasant
   • George E. Lewis
   • The young Vancouver-based artists who founded the Western Front in 1973 came from a variety of art practices and traditions, and in this context, new music was seen at the outset as an integral component of a multimodal interdisciplinary landscape. Through the many ar…  MORE >
2. • 2. Send us your Art's Birthday presence! Traces of Art's Birthday networks at the Western Front 1989-2007
   • Anna Friz
   • whispered: it all started a 17th of January, one million years ago. a man took a dry sponge and dropped it into a bucket full of water. who that man was is not important. he is dead, but art is alive. I mean, let’s keep names out of this. So goes the sto…  MORE >
3. • 3. Exhibitions & Performance
   • Michael Turner
   • It has been thirteen years since the publication of Whispered Art History: Twenty Years At The Western Front (1993), a collection of essays, images, and event chronology “celebrat[ing]” what the book’s editor, Keith Wallace, calls a “pioneer in…  MORE >
4. • 4. FRONT Is Not A Real Magazine
   • Donato Mancini
   • “When Mother first heard my percussion quartet years ago in Santa Monica, she said, “I enjoyed it, but where are you going to put it?”—John Cage, Indeterminacy [1] One French poet Roger Giroux wrote, in his poem Blank “Forget, and you begin…  MORE >