Yesterday Paul Couillard send me one of my favourite kinds of emails—one line and a picture:
"An image taken by Chumpon Apisuk of 'Silence #8: Plumb Lines, with thanks to Rebecca Belmore' from the 2009 edition of LIVE!"
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Thank you for this fabulous addition to the archive!
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To hear Paul speak on this piece: https://vimeo.com/640209833
To see some of Apisuk's 2009 performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jokgdjzQWtc&list=PL6oJdf_wMSP6btK824YX3otR2ynx8CzhD&index=7&t=2s&ab_channel=livebiennalevideo
September 30 - October 3, 2015
Stories From The Edge - https://archive.openspace.ca/programming/stories-edge
James Luna
Jeneen Frei Njootli
Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Saul Garcia Lopez
Jessica Balitrónica
Willem Wilhelmus
Amy Malbeuf
SAW - https://saw-centre.com/
VIVA! art action - http://vivamontreal.org/
7A*11D - https://7a-11d.ca/
LIVE Biennale of Performance Art - https://livebiennale.ca/2021/
FADO Performance Art Centre - http://www.performanceart.ca/index.php
Centre d'artistes AXENÉO7 - https://axeneo7.qc.ca/en
Latitude 53 - https://www.latitude53.org/
OFFTA - https://offta.com/
Usine C - https://usine-c.com/
Art Nomade - http://artnomadeperformance.ca/en/
You can see more footage from LIVE 2009 on our Youtube:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6oJdf_wMSP6btK824YX3otR2ynx8CzhD
From the grunt archives:
Margaret Dragu's 1999 performance for LIVE at then End of the Century
From the LIVE archvies:
Oct.15th 2009
A performances at the Hasting Steam Bath featuring Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa, Paul Coulliard, Roco Trigueros and Francisco-Fernando Granados:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4yqNt_kNYs&ab_channel=livebiennalevideo
View the LIVE 'Annotating the Archives' Project videos https://livebiennale.ca/2021/annotating-the-archives/ Tag the comments with #theArchive
In this segment of Annotating the Archive, Yasmine speaks to Guadalupe Martinez about her performance during the LIVE biennale in 2011.
More videos and archival information on our website,:
https://livebiennale.ca/2021
Filmed and edited by Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora (@ywk). Archival footage by Elisha Burrows.
“Mending” (2009) by Margaret Dragu
This work was part of a series of pieces centered around “verb actions” developed by Margaret Dragu in collaboration with Paul Couillard. In this piece, Dragu films herself repeating the action of “mending,” overlapping the subsequent iterations to create layers of actions that slowly deteriorate and obscure with each repetition.
More videos and archival information on our website, link in bio!
Archival footage by Elisha Burrows.
In this segment of Annotating the Archives, Yasmine speaks to Margaret Dragu (@ladragu) about her performance during LIVE biennale in 2009.
More videos and archival information on our website, link in bio!
Interview filmed by Brady Marks (@furiousgreencloud) and edited by Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora (@ywk). Archival footage by Elisha Burrows.
In addition to the Assembly preparations, LIVE has begun digging into our archives. As we’ve been gathering, labelling, assessing and creating frameworks for the future of the LIVE archives, many questions have surfaced around what it means to hold a body of performance art documentation. How can context be introduced to support the documentation of past performances? How can the archive care for and serve the artists whose documentation it holds?
https://www.facebook.com/livebiennale/photos/a.10150285188743437/10158536744708437/
Our public posts are now LIVE on https://livebiennale.ca/2021/, let the public experiment begin.
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A while back, I pitched a piece to QOQQOON and they indulged a me in a meander around the normalized enmeshment of purpose, applause, productivity and hustle, and how loitering might be a way back to art making in the midst of all that.
Here's a link to read more: http://qoqqoon.com/art-making-and-the-loiter/
Doug Jarvis is an artist and curator based in Victoria, BC. He is a founding member of the avatar performance art group Second Front and the Noxious Sector Art Collective and participates in Open Actions in public spaces. His individual and collective work explores absurdity, care, non-material entities and technology as a human attribute.
To read more about Doug, peruse our event schedule, register for the event, or sign up for our newsletter:
https://livebiennale.ca/2021/
Daina Warren is from the Akamihk (Cree) Nation in Maskwacis (Bear Hills), AB. She was awarded two Canada Council’s Aboriginal Curatorial Residencies the first to work with grunt gallery, Vancouver BC (2000-2001) and a second residency at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario (2010-2011).
To read more about Daina, peruse our event schedule, register for the event, or sign up for our newsletter:
https://livebiennale.ca/2021/
With the LIVE Assembly on it's way, we thought we'd share with you some of our guests!
Margaret Dragu works in video, installation, web/analogue publication & performance. Spanning relational, durational, interventionist and community-based practices, she has shown in Canada, USA & Europe. Dragu is celebrating her 50th year as working artist.
To read more about Margaret, peruse our event schedule, register for the event, or sign up for our newsletter:
https://livebiennale.ca/2021/
Interdisciplinary artist and past-LIVE performance artist, Adrian Stimson (Siksika Nation) offers a response to Blackwood Galleries project, Artists-in-Presidents: Transmissions to Power; "a polyvocal art project initiated by Constance Hockaday that takes up and subverts the model of the Presidential Address or Transmission to the Nation."
You can listen and see many other resonant responses here: https://www.blackwoodgallery.ca/projects/transmission-adrian-stimson
Just updated the #fantomesZine website with new borders, a color that matches the zine, and other little style fixes in preparation for listing the pre-orders on there ~
fantomeszine.com
Wanted to share the 12th issue of UBC's UJAH (Undergrad Journal of Art History). This issue contains a paper I wrote last fall on the ReMatriate Collective, (@rematriate_), as well as many more interesting papers and artist profiles written by students and recent grads.
You can get the full journal PDF here:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e07029e4b0130e4212e72c/t/6152add72c05423a43b3483e/1632808470428/UJAH-2021_compressed.pdf
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LIVE Associate Curator of Archives
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artist and part-time archivist
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