With assistance from the BC Arts Council and the BC Museums Association, the Western Front has expanded its online archive of events, images, sound recordings, and other information intended to assist researchers interested in the programming and activities of the Western Front Society.
Western Front Research Library
Critical Writing
Recently Added Texts
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- A Noisy Brush with the Infinite
- A Noisy Brush with the Infinite – Laura U. Marks CLICK HERE TO READ… MORE >
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- Corporeal Returns: Feminism and Phenomenology in Vancouver Video and Performance 1968-1983
- Marina Roy
- Scene: September 1975; Vancouver Small Claims Court; Diana Douglas in the witness box after being sworn in by the judge. Judge: Your name please. Douglas: Diana Douglas. Judge: Miss or Mrs.? Douglas: Ms. Judge: Pardon? Douglas: Ms … M…S… Judge:… MORE >
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- Kate Craig: Skin
- Grant Arnold
- Skin: The continuous flexible integument forming the usual external covering of an animal body … Anything which resembles skin in nature or use; an outer coat or covering of anything. The Oxford English Dictionary Kate Craig took up video in the mid-1970s, an hi… MORE >
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- Kate Craig: Living in Character
- Karen Henry
- Kate Craig is well known for her videotapes and for fostering the video production program at the Western Front starting in 1976, but her participation in the flurry of performance activities on the West Coast in the 1970s provided the foundation and opportunity for he… MORE >
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- Personal Perspective
- Kate Craig
- Intermedia had grown so large by the winter of 1971 that special interest groups had developed, and different people had acquired their own equipment. We submitted an enormous proposal to LIP (Local Initiatives Program) for a grant that would hire something like 79 art… MORE >
Media Archive
From the Archives
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- October 18th, 1983
- Soap and Water
- Richard Layzell
- ‘What to say about a work which grew from so many chance occurencs and coincidences at every stage. Looking back, now in England, it feels as if Soap and Water had its own life from the moment we set of in Connie’s Volvo headed north for Robert’s Cree… MORE >
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- October 27th, 1980
- Run with the Fox, Ride with the Hounds
- Dave Stephens
- Ex-member of the infamous Matchbox Purveyors. Set in a hospital ward among four bedridden characters; semi-autobiographical with stories into the absurd. (WAH)… MORE >
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- May 2nd, 1979
- Three Musicians
- Hank Bull, Eric Metcalfe and Robert Young
- Picasso’s painting ‘The 3 Musicians’ provided a useful context in which to combine our interests in music, painting and performance. The idea was to create a ‘tableau vivant’ in which the artists would portray the three Commedia del Arte c… MORE >