Camp Potlatch

Aug 22, 1976
Field:

Performance, Media Artwork

Location:

Grand Luxe Hall, Western Front

Description:

Camp Potlatch is a single-channel video performance by Kenneth Fletcher. Produced in the Grand Luxe Hall, the three-minute video shows Fletcher using a comb to restage a blood-letting ritual that he learned at Camp Potlatch, a non-sectarian wilderness camp operated by the BGC Foundation of South Coast BC. 

Video documentation is available upon request.

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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.