Western Front Seeking Part Time Curatorial Assistant
The Western Front Society is seeking a qualified candidate to fill the part time position of Assistant Curator. Please download the PDF for information on…
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Sound as a Space—an interview with Aki Onda and Akio Suzuki
Media artist-in-residence Elisa Ferrari joined sound artists Akio Suzuki and Aki Onda for a conversation about listening and sound collaboration a few hours before their…
Walking so Slowly that the Bottoms of our Feet Become Ears
Walking so Silently That The Bottoms Of Our Feet Become Ears Essay by Jorma Kujala On July 18, 2017, the Western Front joined the…
Demo Model
Entry from Acts of Transfer: Duration: 21 min 26 sec Format: ¾” Umatic SP “…Demo Model is…a demonstration of varieties of communication (an inventory of codes,…
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…
the-possible-impossible-thing-of-sound cont’d
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 Headless Woman
Entry from Acts of Transfer: Duration: 30 min Format: ¾” Umatic SP The Headless Woman is a 30-minute monologue by Shawna Dempsey that recounts a revelatory…
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…
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…
The Bridge
Work is a single channel video production of a dance choreographed by Paula Ross for Concerto for Cello Orchestra by Gyorgi Legeti and Variations in…
Amphibious Tales
Work is a performance of a song cycle for extended voice, text, dance, and percussion. From Front Magazine, Sept/Oct 1992 Vol.IV No.1 P.12: AMPHIBOUS TALES DB…
Untitled Performance
Entry from Acts of Transfer: Duration: 38 min 50 sec Format: ¾” Umatic The stage is set in the round with a single spotlight. Two video…