Drop the Bomb Campaign

Nov 9, 1978
Field:

Performance

Description:

Stephen Long and Raymond Zablokis’s Drop the Bomb campaign took place across newspapers, radio, and the streets of Vancouver with the message “don’t wait, drop the big one now and end all starvation, disease misery mortgages, unemployment and non-returnable bottles for once and for all.” 

The satirical performance was staged in strategic locations across the city where Long and Zablokis intervened with petitions, Drop the Bomb T-shirts, push buttons, and hand-sized holograms of mushroom clouds.

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.