Vocal Tracts @ WAAP
Intimate yet exquisite premiere evening of mouth/vocal-themed work
Photos and words by Ash Tanasiychuk The night was sweaty. Vancouver was in the thick of it’s hottest and driest summer in recent history. It was also fireworks night, which meant most people were heading to the West End of the city. Yet curiosity got the better of a group of folk took Wil Aballe […]
Collapsing Opposites @ SASStorino’s
Words by Adrienne LaBelle It’s Saturday night, almost 9pm, and we’re at the corner of Venables and Commercial. Walking up to the old Astorino’s building, you wouldn’t know that there is an all-ages show starting in ten minutes. Partially, because nobody is here yet, not even the opening band. Partially because nobody shows […]
Six Fest @ 6th & Ontario
East Van community gathers for annual party in the street, complete with potluck, music, dancing... and a wedding!
Photos by Ash Tanasiychuk Six Fest is an annual, free, all day, all ages community event in East Van near Broadway and Main. This was the fest’s third year and featured a huge list of local creative talent, from a ton of musicians: Pitre Therapy Movieland Bushtit Leila Neverland Tyranahorse The Adulthood comedy & music […]
Powell Street Festival
The largest Japanese Canadian festival in the country celebrates 37 years through a variety of food, dance, performance, and ceremony
Written by Hailey McCloskey Tomomi Morimoto dances with ghost stories of Japanese lore. Performing at the Firehall Arts Centre, she begins with her back facing the audience. Some of the audience is privy to the sight of a mirrored mask she holds still by the clasp of her jaw. As she moves in fractions, we […]
Lauren Marsden & Mike Bourscheid @ Trench
Pair of performances draw on the elements of absurdity to challenge contexts of the contemporary art gallery
Photos by Ash Tanasiychuk On Thursday July 25 2013, a night of performance art took place at Trench Gallery in the Railtown district of Vancouver BC. VANDOCUMENT’s Ash Tanasiychuk was there to photograph the event. — From the event’s media release: Night of Performance art featuring: Die Wurst als Zeitmesser (The Wurst as a timer), […]
LocoMotoArt @ Queen Elizabeth Park
Experiencing nature versus grace
Words by Lucia Misch Video by Leslie Kennah LocoMotoArt Collective’s show of “digital eco-art” in Queen Elizabeth Park began at 9pm on Sunday night, meaning that my bike ride from Commercial Drive to Vancouver’s most elevated—and perhaps most beautiful—spot occurred at the height of the evening’s glow. Turning my head toward downtown as I crossed Grandview […]
Monomania II @ Trench
Packed house for the opening night of the latest bi-annual exhibition of emerging local talent
On July 4th, 2013, Trench Contemporary Art Gallery held its opening reception for Monomania II: Vancouver Emerging. The exhibition featured over 20 professional Vancouver-based artists from a variety of practises and mediums, including a music/performance piece by Mike Bourscheid entitled “Introducing Myself To The Canada Geese” in which he played an odd bagpipe-like contraption. The […]
Music For Lamps + Music For Internet + Music For Furniture @ VIVO
VIVO's Latest Video Bar immerses it’s audience in sound, light, and vibration
Words by Celesse McCarthy Photos by Dennis Ha and Elisa Ferrari I’m sitting outside City Centre Motel on Main. VACANCY is illuminated, and across the street, Hot Art Wet City is electrified by voyeurs. I’m drinking cider. I see a woman wearing a uniform sauntering down the sidewalk, whirling her sweater – the sun […]
Spatial Poetics XII: Release Me @ SFU Woodwards
Interdisciplinary and experimental evening binds both performers and audience through challenging conceptions of space and expectations
Words by Shalon W-H and Celesse McCarthy To kick off the 37th annual Powell Street Festival, an interdisciplinary event entitled Spatial Poetics XII: Release Me took place on July 6th 2013. On the top floor of SFU Woodwards Goldcorp Centre for the Arts is a small stage – Studio D – equipped with scaffolded seating. […]
Art Bar at On Main Gallery
Extensive mitosis and tessellation erupt into amoebic bear hugs
Words by Alicia McLean Photos by Ash Tanasiychuk “I wanted to create something that is as easy to ignore as it is to notice,” Patrick McManus explained to to me as we sat in the temporary side-walk-cum-lobby of the On Main Gallery. Dressed all in black, his patterned white collar conjures the impression of a […]