Living Art Vancouver Performance Festival

Description:

Western Front, PUMPS Centre for the Arts, and Video Inn/Satellite Video Exchange Society presented Living Art Performance Festival. The multi-day program was coordinated and curated by Glenn Lewis, Kim Tomczak, and Paul Wong with the collaboration of several curators and artists who animated many spaces throughout Vancouver. Performances took place at the Commodore Ballroom, the Actors Workshop, Robson Square Media Centre, and Videospace at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Alongside the program of live events, a selection of performance tapes were made available for scheduled and on-demand viewing at Video Inn. Seventeen videos by local, national, and international artists were also featured in an exhibition mounted at the Vancouver Art Gallery to coincide with the festival. Spanning three weeks, the exhibition was divided into four distinct blocks that considered the complex relationship between performance and the camera: videotapes documenting performance, videotapes designed for video, videotapes edited and distilled as a post-production process, and videotapes and video hardware as elements of live performance.

Performance program:

Sep 27, 1979
Location: The Commodore Ballroom

Mondo Arte Cabaret – A Decade of Artwear

Sep 28, 1979
Location: The Actors Workshop

Circus Minimus, Trash
Gerry Gilbert, The Feel
Max Dean, Untitled
Ross Muirhead, A New Structural Homeland Exists or an Underlying Principle That Has Shaped Our World

Sep 29, 1979
Location: The Actors Workshop

TBA TV and Helen Goodwin, Buttonhole Perfection
Kim Tomczak, 100 Years of Aggression
Rick Hambleton, Mirror Breakdown
Bruce Barber, A Performance of Exegesia

Sep 30, 1979
Location: The Actors Workshop

Ken Lum, Air (video performance for the duration of the evening)
Jane Ellison and Eric Metcalfe, Oh Yes, Oh No
Fiona Pinney and Trudi Forest, CHANges
Crista, The Bath
Jim Cummins, You Will Remember the Past, But Will the Future Remember You?

Oct 1, 1979
Location: Robson Square Media Centre

Al Neil, Carolyn Zonailo, Howard Broofield, The 13th Proposition of Euclid
Helen Clarke, Peter Bingham, Jane Ellison, Aboutabout
Glenn Lewis, Pygmy Reflections
Neil Campbell, Untitled ’79 

Oct 2, 1979
Location: Robson Square Media Centre

Anna Banana and Bill Gaglione, Futurist Sound
John Mitchell, Sacrifice
Tom Graff, The Canadian Family Album, Part Three
Evelyn Roth, Roth Rituals

Oct 3, 1979
Location: Robson Square Media Centre

Don Druick, Lisle Ellis, Jane Phillips, The Information Tree Memo
John Anderson, Lungs
Randy Gledhill and Berenicci Hershorn, I Am Your Mind 

Presented with support from Canada Council for the Arts.

Video documentation is available upon request.