Wildlife Igniters, Peek A Boo, and the Glacier in the Main Ring
In Dreams group show at Astro Turf gets big Art Waste support
Ash Tanasiychuk photos Oh yeah! Art Waste! My pics from massive group show In Dreams at Astro Turf Massive group show as part of Art Waste 2015 edition. Featuring artists: Olga Abeleva Frances Breden & Emma Lowther The Bush Collective Paul Carr Tanya Crail Natalie Crema Aisha Davidson Caton Diab Grace Eakins Rebecca Dueck & […]
Makeshift Cowboy Meets Improvised Beach
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 […]
Victory Comes From Combining Creatives
Analog photo portrait show celebrates local creatives, Combine The Victorious launch sophomore album at Make
Photodocumentation by Ash Tanasiychuk On June 4th, Make opened its doors for an exhibit of Vancouver creatives who had been selected for portraits and photographed by analogue photography studio VNB, including: Dan Berish & Ryan Mah, Black Rhino Creative Michael Seymour, installation artist Sarah Bancroft, Vitamin Daily Matt Schroeter, designer & photographer Neils Bendtsen, Bensen […]
Hot Dots
A photo glimpse at Russell Leng's Too Many Maps at FIELD Contemporary
Ash Tanasiychuk photos On a muggy June night, FIELD Contemporary opened it’s doors for an exhibition of Russell Leng‘s newest work entitled Too Many Maps. From the event’s write up: I’m sitting under a tree in the shade, sorting through piles of maps. Some I’ve found here; some I’ve brought with me. They’re rectangles mostly, […]
Words Into Actions
Five performances at the Firehall Spring Arts Festival
Written by Dillon Ramsey Every year, the BC Buds Spring Arts Festival at the Firehall Arts Centre showcases some of Vancouver’s best emerging and established talent in the fine and performing arts. For an entire weekend, dozens of acts happen concurrently and consecutively each day—most are between ten minutes and half an hour in length—giving audiences an […]
Dancing and Advancing to the Edge
In preparing Together () Apart, a performance installation by performer and MFA candidate Isabelle Kirouac.
Word + Photos by Andi Icaza-Largaespada Midday on a Sunday towards the end of May, Isabelle Kirouac and Willoughby Arevalo are hand knotting a surprisingly complex structure made up of bamboo logs and white fabric on the floor of SFU Woodward’s Studio T. Surrounded by thick black drapes, the labyrinth-like performance space is still in […]
Scratch Brings Softness to Vancouver Theatre
An intimate interview with Caitlin McCarthy and Stephanie Izsak
Interview + Photos by Brit Bachmann Three days before opening night, Vandocument’s Brit Bachmann met with Caitlin McCarthy and Stephanie Izsaks, friends offstage and onstage in Theatre Plexus’ latest project Scratch. The play is a dark humour that explores the evolution of relationships that occur around dying and death, considered a largely autobiographical work by […]
Signal Loss
A review of Feedback Series: Julia Dault at the CAG
Words by Shauna Jean Doherty + Photos provided by CAG May 12th marked the most recent in the Contemporary Art Gallery’s Feedback series, where cultural practitioners in Vancouver assemble to respond, using various creative tactics, to exhibitions currently on display at the gallery. An audience sheepishly emerged and settled into the gallery’s particularly cold surroundings. […]
What is the difference between a boat and a ship
A Peaceful Sea review
Words by Kaylin Metchie Photos by Angela Ferreria What is to be done when we become slaves to our egos? What do we become when the desire to be the best is so strong that it overrides our senses of duty to our nation, to our families? These seem to be some of questions that […]