Western Front Archaeology

Description:

This exhibition showcased materials from Western Front’s archive, accumulated during the organization’s first decade. Shards of pottery, old postcards, magazines and artists’ books, video tapes, costumes, and props from previous performances haunted the space, alongside artefacts belonging to the Knights of Pythius, who constructed the Western Front building in 1922. Together, these fragments, or “artefacts,” offered a speculative reconstruction of the past.

The exhibition was timed to coincide with the celebrations at the new Vancouver Art Gallery and the amplification of this history at The October Show.  

Curated by Hank Bull.