Stickeen Stikine
An environmental performance group from Banff, Alberta.
An environmental performance group from Banff, Alberta.
A residency with Ane Mette Ruge, Jacob Schokking and Jesper Gundersen. “The kind of performance we produce is maybe best described as poetic, with a…
Featuring Martin Bartlett, Hank Bull, Kate Craig, Jane Ellison and Glenn Lewis. Produced for the Holland Festival, the piece was also mounted in Valladolid (Spain),…
The debut of ‘Experimental Dance and Music’ (EDAM) which would soon identify itself as an original voice in the Vancouver dance community and continue as…
Special production. Video by General Idea (AA Bronson, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal). An image constellation of peeing poodles, crescent moons and spilled cocktails is drawn…
Presentation of individual and collaborative works by four artists: Bill Bartlett, Peggy Cady, Jim Corte and Tom Gore. The ‘For Continuous Use League’ was formed…
A concert of free improvisation by the Canadian Creative Music Collective. Peter Anson, Larry Dubin, Nobuo Kubota, Allan Mattes, Michael Snow and Casey Sokol. Audio…
Pumps was an extremely vital artists’ centre which ran from 1976 to 1980 from a former mechanical garage on Cordova Street. It presented exhibitions, performances,…
Debut of Canada Shadows. Adapted from the novel by Alfred Jarry, commissioned by the City of Vancouver. The Western Front’s fourth anniversary event.
A press conference by General Idea. AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal each answer two questions posed by the assembled press corps. The topics…
Displaying the feedback General Idea had received from the press concerning their decade- long search for Miss General Idea, 1984.
Dedicated to the dictum, No Tunes, this group of free improvisors, made up of Peter Anson, Larry Dubin, Nobuo Kubota, Al Mattes, Bill Smith, Michael…
AA Bronson as Spokesman for General Idea. In the performance, Bronson, wearing a black censor bar over his glasses, reads General Idea’s Glamour Manifesto in its…
AA Bronson, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal, Granada Gazelle. General Idea presented an illustrated report on the progress of the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion.
Chip Lord and Megan Williams from San Francisco. Artists from the US west coast, particularly California, helped establish a certain west coast sensibility – a…