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,…
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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 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…
Catwalk Envy: A Subverted Runway Show
Artists: Lorena Wolffer, Naufus Ramirez-Figuroa, Aiyyana Maracle, Irene Loughlin, Jocelyn Grant, Kim Dawn
Demo Model
Work is a performance from the Fifth Avenue Network Video Conference in Toronto. This is a non-Western Front produced performance. Digitized video available through Western…
The Gallery Director
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. XV, no. 4, p. 28, September/October 2004: The Artist – The Cultural Worker Series Three Interventions: October…
Power Circus
Work is a performance done in the style of a circus where Wilson and Radul perform unremarkable acts, interspersed with dialogue relating to power. It…
Putting the WILD back into the west: starring Belle Sauvage & Buffalo Boy
A description of the work from the former Western Front website, reads “Belle Sauvage & Buffalo Boy are performance personas created by artists Lori Blondeau…
Respecting the Endocrine System
Documentation of a workshop by Linda Montano at the Western Front including an introduction by Montano and exercises by the participants and Montano.
Buttonhole Perfection/And So As For By But And If Not Yet Why
A performance in which TBA TV discusses their interaction with television, followed by shots of buildings on one television and shots of a man speaking…
Inside / Out
Entry from Acts of Transfer: Duration: 11 min 28 sec Original Format: ¾” Umatic This digitized document from the Western Front archive is a selection of…
Untitled Performance
Entry from Acts of Transfer: Duration: 24 min 20 sec Format: ¾” Umatic Laetitia Sonami’s performance took place as part of Women in View, a festival…
Such Sweet Compulsion
“Each of the seven works in such sweet compulsion re-invented the diva in a way that highlights key issues that circulate around the power of…
Joolz Live in Gangland
Reading event with Joolz Denby at Gangland Studios, co-sponsored by Cutting Edge Productions. Works is a performance in which Joolz reads from “Stories about Junkies”…
A Simple Truth
Work is a performance at Western Front as part of LIVE Biennial of Performance Art Festival in which Belmore discusses her process of creating work through…
Absent/Presence
Entry from Acts of Transfer: Duration: 2 hrs 24 min Format: Mini DV Linda Montano is a performance artist whose work explores the idea of art…