Added on September 25, 2014
Barbara Adler
cowboots , Czech Republic , Interdisciplinary Studies , Klasika , MFA project , SFU , tramping
Or, "How to Own it When You Don't Own It."
Writing by Barbara Adler Illustrations by Brit Bachmann Photography by Barbara Adler and Ash Tanasiychuk Videos by Ash Tanasiychuk “A cowboy without a horse just wants to get to where they’re going.” This summer, I picked up that piece of cowboy philosophy by wandering – horseless — through the Czech countryside in a pair of […]
Added on April 30, 2020
Ash Tanasiychuk
Barbara Adler , OAR , online artist residency , process , Sasha Krieger , vandr
Where did the idea for Online Artists Residency (OAR) come from? + introducing our first artist of 2020
Where did the idea for Online Artists Residency (OAR) come from? + introducing our first artist of 2020.
Added on October 27, 2015
Special Contributor
Ashley Aron , Barbara Adler , costume , Czech Republic , Klasika , Peter Dickinson , Rodeo Queens , SFU
Words by Peter Dickinson, Ashley Aron, Barbara Adler In the summer of 2015 I went to the Czech Republic to learn about the unique sub-culture of Czech tramping. I’ve told a lot of stories about my attempts to adapt elements of Czech tramping to a Canadian context; many of these efforts have been detailed […]
Added on October 22, 2015
Megan Stewart
Barbara Adler , cowboy boots , East Van , Field Camp , Klasika , Megan Stewart , vandr
Dear cowboy boots, our adventures begin here. This fall there’s so much more to look forward to besides trudging through leaves and racing to class. We’re going to be in a musical together – Klasika, by my friend and MFA colleague Barbara Adler. There will be musical numbers, bedazzled denim, maybe even some sheep. Get your hopes up.
Added on June 19, 2015
Brit Bachmann
condo developments , Czech Republic , False Creek , field recordings , Klasika , Kyla Gardiner , Megan Stewart , multidisciplinary , Rebecca Bruton , Robert Leveroos , School for the Contemporary Arts , SFU , Simon Fraser University , tramping , vandr , Woodwards
Klasika goes on an urban vandr
Written by Barbara Adler Brit Bachmann photos Brendan Yandt soundscape It feels like it happened a long time ago. A group of friends met in my office at SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts, where I am currently a graduate student. We listened to field recordings I made last summer in the Czech Republic as […]
Added on March 6, 2015
Barbara Adler
audio essay , Barbara Adler , David Newberry , Environment , Ernest Thompson Seton , fiction , Klasika , lies , Natures Fakers Controversy , Sound Art , storytelling , Ten Thousand Wolves , wolves as music
David Newberry and Barbara Adler tell the story of Ernest Thompson Seton and the Natures Fakers Controversy, using music, fiction and the sweet voices of many wolves.
Article by David Newberry. Composition by Barbara Adler, with musical performances by James Meger and David Newberry. Story performed by David Newberry and Barbara Adler. Instruments recorded by James Meger at SlugBait Studios. I am writing this on a train that they call The Canadian. It is taking me and my suitcase from Vancouver, where […]
Added on November 14, 2014
Barbara Adler
Czech Republic , Klasika , MFA project , SFU , tramping , vandr
Story and audio recording by Barbara Adler. Photographs by Jirka Matousek and Míša. After posting “My Cowbojsky Boty,” Barbara Adler returned to Czech Republic, cast as a character in Czech Country, a documentary about Czech tramping which is also the subject of her year-long, multidisciplinary art project Klasika. Her return to Canada’s west coast brings […]