Acts of Transfer: Women’s Performance in the Western Front Archive
Announcing the web launch of more than 50 newly digitized videos from the Western Front Archive. Focused on women in performance, the documents span from…
I Don’t Get it
The final stop on a three-part exhibition tour, I Don’t Get It is a new body of work by Aleesa Cohene. The work pushes at the limits…
Adults are so Last Year
Join us for Western Front’s annual event for kids, Adults are So Last Year, which invites kids of all ages for an afternoon of hands on…
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The sound installation series investigates real and imagined sounds beyond the hearing spectrum. It continues with John Brennan’s bombastic, Temporal Drum Set __ TEMPORAL DRUM SET…
On Trial The Long Doorway
Through July Deanna Bowen will visit Western Front to undertake the post-production of her newest work On Trial The Long Doorway. Combining historical research with…
The Still Living End
The Still Living End is a nostalgic revisitation of Gregg Araki’s ‘The Living End,’ executed through a meticulous recreation of its theatrical properties. A lush…
These Hands
Rabbit hunting in the snow. Weaving textiles on a backstrap loom. Smashing up rocks in a sun drenched quarry in Tanzania. Cleaning office buildings by…
Sonic Playground Celebrates BC Youth Week
Sonic Playground celebrates youth exploring the creative potential of sound and technology. Teens from King George Secondary and Burnaby North High show off a year of…
Feminist Land Art Retreat
Feminist Land Art Retreat (FLAR) will take up a post-production residency to complete a new video that uses strategies of equestrianism, science fiction and land…
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Curating Critical Pedagogies: A Curatorial Conversation
Please join us at the Western Front for a public panel discussion among four international curators as part of a Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies…
Deborah Edmeades
Edmeades’ newest project, Monologues: patriarchal traditions and the New Age, investigates the role of women in an intertwined terrain of research into Western mystical thought,…
STSTS
STSTS is a site-specific public installation by Maggie Groat that includes sculptural assemblage, a publication, and a series of public programs in collaboration with local…
Feeling So Much Yet Doing So Little
We know that one is never enough and as a colour we are fluorescent pink. We play with inclusion and exclusion equally. When we say…