Live Art Generation
Official website launch for Permanent Deviation
Video shot and edited by Harley Spade Photography by Kendra Archer and Ash Tanasiychuk Text largely pulled from official Permanent Deviation promo documents In March 2014, the official website launch party for Permanent Deviation kicked off at VIVO Media Arts. Permanent Deviation (http://permanentdeviation.com) is an online Processing compiler and simultaneous participatory exhibition space conceived by […]
Catherine Falkner Cracks Up The Toast Collective in Space, Baby
Emerging SFU talent counts down for blast off at local artists' space
Written by Jen Dunford Photos provided by Flick Harrison Walking down Kingsway in the early evening across from Robson and McAuley parks, I nearly passed the Toast Collective, a small artists’ space nestled in to the microcosm of storefront businesses at Fraser Street, nearby to neighbourhood icons like the Black Lodge and Les Faux Bourgeois. […]
Synthetic Synthesis
Review: It’s Not You, It’s Me @ Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art and Design (1399 Johnston Street, Vancouver, B.C.) March 27 – April 9, 2014
Review by Justin and Dillon Ramsey Granville Island is a beautiful place; that’s hard to contest. But its beauty is an aesthetic of tensions: here, the natural and industrial converge upon one another in stark, yet strangely harmonious, juxtaposition. Walking from west to east en route to Emily Carr University of Art and Design, lush […]
A Night When Music Kept Our Hearts Beating
Vancouver’s young and energetic crowd get a treat with a great music line up
Photos and words by Jon Vincent The night started in a sushi joint somewhere in the boundary of Burnaby and New Westminster. When two Spanish-speaking girls started singing along together – using their iPhones as karaoke machines – and laughing at the same time, a thought came to mind: “This is going to be a […]
Journey
Vision and memory captured by winners of the Vernissage Photography awards
Words and photos by Annie Briard Video by Ash Tanasiychuk “Journey,” a two-person photography exhibition curated by Rita Minichiello, was presented at Beaumont Studios Gallery from February 20 to March 8, 2014. Centred on artists Adam Stenhouse and Michelle Peters, winners of the People’s Choice and The Beaumont Choice awards for their participation in the […]
Porno Death Cult Brings The Spirit To Vancouver
Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg lights up the stage
Written by Shalon Webber-Heffernan Oh-My-God! Literally. Wow! Wow! Wow! to Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg’s one woman world premier of Porno Death Cult at the Firehall Arts Centre that played March 5-8, directed by Marcus Youssef. What do porno, death, and cults have in common? My conclusion: Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg. The performance, largely inspired by a walking […]
Mixtape, A Harmonious Feast for the Ears
PuSH Festival’s delectable feast of Music on Main
Written by Harley Spade Music on Main is a project that dates back to 2006. It has produced over 175 events and supported almost 500 musicians in that time. The foundation of the project and its vision is to bring inspiring music to inspirable listeners. Mixtape was no different. I was an inspirable person seeking […]
Popsicle Sticks and Dragonflies
An experience of Theatre Pap’s “The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi”
Written by Elysse Cheadle I arrive to see Theatre Papʼs performance of Larry Tremblayʼs play “The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi” on the evening of January 23rd. The audience is buzzing about outside of the doors waiting for admittance to the theatre. I see many familiar faces from other line ups from other PuSH shows. Many groups […]
Annie Briard’s Cyber Claymation Doll in “The Woods”
An experiment in agency, defiance and creativity
Written by Hailey McCloskey Photographs provided by Annie Briard I am a foreigner in the world of computer programming. The little I know resides in the realm of rudimentary word processing with an offshoot in social media. This is precisely what made me want to see Annie Briard‘s show. I was also drawn in by […]
Looking Back to Move Forward
Locate, Gallery 295’s first Annual Emerging Curator’s Show, presents the traditional print as a valuable and relevant object
Written by Adam Stenhouse Photos courtesy Gallery 295 Gallery 295 continues it’s intriguing emergence as a space for photography within Vancouver’s arts scene with Locate, an exhibit curated by Emily Carr University alumni Avalon Mott. This show is 295’s first Annual Emerging Curator’s Show, and from the moment I walked in I was happy because […]