Walking so Slowly that the Bottoms of our Feet Become Ears
Essay by Jorma Kujala On July 18, 2017, the Western Front joined the global chorus honoring the life and legacy of Pauline Oliveros by…
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New Bronze Age: Street Gamelan in Vancouver by Kaelan Unrau
NEW BRONZE AGE: STREET GAMELAN IN VANCOUVER By Kaelan Unrau In the summer of 2015, the Western Front hosted New Bronze Age, a series of…
Uncertain Outcomes
Reflections on Event Score, with responses from Eric KM Clark By Jesse Gotfrit After Event Score, Western Front’s three-day, Fluxus-oriented festival that took…
Taming the Many-Headed Folia
Reflections on Les Folles Alliées live at Western Front on November 8, 2012 By Sarah Davachi It will come as little surprise to the…
One Thing Follows Another
More information on Evan Parker’s LP ‘Vaincu.Va! Live at Western Front 1978′ can be found HERE. By Alex Varty The first impulse, on revisiting this…
Acoustic Cartography: Performing the Map
By Andreas Kahre “As for Acoustic cartography, I would make the —perhaps somewhat provocative— assertion that it is not possible.” – Barry Truax, Acoustic Cartography…
There Went Everybody: A Centennial Reflection
American composer Alvin Curran was a colleague of 20th century pioneer John Cage. As part of a world wide 100th anniversary celebration of Cage, Curran shared…
Erratics: Surveying the landscape with Fennesz
By Mark Mushet The track “Wind on Water” from the 1975 LP Evening Star by Robert Fripp and Brian Eno was probably the first notable…
Clamour: Intersections
Intersections is an artistic inquiry into social and economic convergences, geographic landmarks and reminiscences about current and historical thoroughfares. Two writers, Sarah Buchanan and Caleb…
When it Rains: Experimental Music and The Cultural Ecology
In Septermber 2007 Ellen Waterman, flutist/vocalist and music professor and researcher visited the site of artist Gordon Monahan’s audio installation Aquaeolian Harp on the banks…
Kate Craig: Living in Character
Profile of Kate Craig by Karen Henry from Caught in the Act, An Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women. Edited by Tanya Mars and Johanna…
Corporeal Returns: Feminism and Phenomenology in Vancouver Video and Performance 1968-1983
Essay by Marina Roy, first published in Canadian Art, Summer 2001.