Tania Bruguera: Residency
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. VIII, no. 4, p. 12, March/April 1997: Performance Saturday March 22nd, 10:30pm Cuban performance artist, Tania Bruguera, born…
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Jan Swidzinski: Residency
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. VIII, no. 3, p. 8, January/February 1997: Performance Wednesday, February 12 at 8pm. The steady acceleration of changes…
Jeff Mann: Residency, Workshop & Performance
FREE TV, round table discussion, April 11 TV FREE NET, performance, April 22 The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. V, no. 4, p. 8,…
A New Human Relationship
Lecture: Friday, February 4, 8 pm Workshop: Saturday, February 5, 2 pm Performance: Saturday, February 12, 9 pm Artist in Residence, February 1 – 14,…
Anne Seagrave & Oscar McLennan: Residency
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. V, no. 2, p. 6, November/December 1993: Oscar McLennan and Anne Seagrave are performance artists from Ireland, whose…
Mz. Frankenstein
Entry from Acts of Transfer: Duration: 22 min 55 sec Format: ¾” Umatic The documentation of Mz. Frankenstein opens with a black screen paired with the…
Mary Medusa
Video production. A description of the work on Finger in the Dyke reads, “Dempsey and Millan’s first video, a re-telling of the classical Medusa myth…
In bocca al lupo (In the Mouth of the Wolf)
An opera that involved the construction of an elaborate two-storey set, roughly the shape of a body, which took up the entire Lux. The audience…
Pilgrim-Exile
Stewart’s work reflects his conviction that without “metaphysical reconstruction” our society is headed for a deadly conflict within itself and with the natural world. Stewart…
La Oscuridad de Mi Lengua (The Darkness of My Language)
Artist-in-residence. Special production. Rosenfeld did a performance, to which participants were invited, that included a brief entry into the justice minister’s office, the playing of…
El Niño
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…
Freedom and Limitation
Swidzinski had advertised an event by this name in his native Poland. The authorities called up the gallery and explained that the wording on the…
The Boy and the Bird
A performance of “The Boy and the Bird.” Emmett was artist-in-residence for a month, during which he composed the book, Dada Handshakes, Illustrated with Prints of…
Wiencouver IV
Artist-in-residence. Live sound and image (telecommunications) exchange between Vancouver and Vienna, with Hank Bull, Bill Bartlett, Mona Hatoum, David Kelln. Live music by Trevor Arntzen,…
Teaching and Learning as Performing Arts Part II
With Marianne and Marcelline Filliou. 1. a) Video Dinner, b) Four-Dimensional Space Time Continuum, c) Recycling, d) Sky Analysis, e) Bedtime Her/His Story; footnotes. 2.…
Social Studies
Due to the high volume of material in the Western Front Archive, information on this project is currently unavailable.
Black Box Love
In conjunction with video production.
Ideology and Nature
Slowly and methodically, a woman in the garb of Italian fascist youth repeatedly disrobes and dresses, accompanied by an audiotape of music and propaganda recorded…
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