Description:
Aka Nada was a shadow play featuring Martin Bartlett, Hank Bull, Kate Craig, Jane Ellison, Glenn Lewis, and Patrick Ready that combined live computer music with three simultaneous screens and various projection technologies. The work reflected on nuclear war.
Aka Nada was commissioned by Akademie der Künste, Berlin as part of their exhibition O Kanada. It was also performed in Ottawa and Montréal, Canada; and Innsbruck and Lienz, Austria.
Western Front is a non-profit
artist-run centre in Vancouver.
We acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations as traditional owners of the land upon which Western Front stands.