WESTERN FRONT – World Shadows

Description:

In 1980, Hank Bull and Kate Craig spent a year travelling to Japan, Southeast Asia, India, Africa, and Europe to connect with other artists and explore the possibilities and problems of cross-cultural communication. Upon returning to Vancouver, Bull and Craig presented World Shadows, a shadow play that demonstrated new performance and storytelling techniques developed while studying shadow theatre in Bali, Indonesia under master daling I Wayan Wija.

A portable shadow theatre depicts three shadow puppet figures and a shadow puppet chair.

A man and a woman are seated together, a microphone is positioned by their head and a light shines behind them, illuminating their faces.

A puppeteer backstage controls shadow puppets along the portable shadow theatre. A lamp shines on the theatre screen.

A portable shadow theatre depicts two shadow puppet figures and a shadow puppet chair.

A portable shadow theatre depicts a shadow puppet figure and a shadow puppet chair.

Captions:

Kate Craig and Hank Bull, World Shadows, photo documentation, Nov 23, 1981.
Kate Craig and Hank Bull in World Shadows, photo documentation, Nov 23, 1981.
Hank Bull in World Shadows, photo documentation, Nov 23, 1981.
Kate Craig and Hank Bull, World Shadows, photo documentation, Nov 23, 1981.
Kate Craig and Hank Bull, World Shadows, photo documentation, Nov 23, 1981.

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.