- May 9, 2002
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In 1954 the elected government of Guatemala was overthrown by a coup encouraged by the United Fruit Company in collusion with the CIA. Ramirez-Figueroa uses this as a starting point for his performance that mines Guatemalan history and the Broadway musical. This minimalist dance musical without words or music derives inspiration from Elsa Miranda, Disney Cartoons and political speeches to explore aspects of Latin American history.
By Naufus Ramirez Figueroa
date | 18 Programs
Dates 2002- April 25, 2002
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No description available
By Bea Medicine
Learning to Be an Anthropologist and Remaining “Native”
- April 19, 2002 to May 11, 2002
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This exhibition of sculpture by Cuban artist Osvaldo Yero consists of wall-mounted ceramics, running water, and live plants. He makes use of symbols such as the hand, the heart, plants and tears, to use kitsch and cliche to make statements about poverty and Cuban history.
By Osvaldo Yero
Transplant
- April 4, 2002
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Gallery 536, with the support of grunt gallery, is proud to present the world's first Online Avatar Talent Show - a virtual online talent show in a 3D video game like environment. Participants will be drawn from the Traveler online community, and thus will hail from around the globe. The talent categories will include Spoken Word, Comedy, Dance and Music. A winner from each will be selected by audience members in attendance at grunt and notified via email. This even in the second in a series exploring performance using the internet within a live audience context.
By Jeremy Turner
Avatar
- March 15, 2002 to April 6, 2002
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A series of sculptures composed of commonplace objects together with objects the artist has constructed from wood, aluminum, resin and lead. The latter materials are often cast in multiples from moulds initially made from collected artefacts, such as bones. This exhibit also incorporates monitors showing simple, repetitive moving images in such a way as to mask the frame of technology, such that the fluidity of image and sound remain.
By Fae Logie
Tidal Friction
- February 15, 2002 to March 9, 2002
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Robert Burke was born and raised in the North West Territories. This is where much of his experience and concepts are drawn from. He refers to himself as an "Aboriginal" because of the two cultures he has experienced through his black military father and Chipewyan mother. His visions are accounts of the timberland and wildlife within the forests where he lived and worked as a logger most of his life. His triptychs are abstracted ideas and thoughts, jumbled together to create a vividly fascinating world of human and animal figures. It was during his early twenties that Robert Burke started his artistic endeavours but then went into logging. It hasn't been until recently that he has taken up the brush again, becoming an emerging artist with a background as colourful as his paintings.
By Robert Burke - Curated by Daina Warren
Aboriginal Immersion
- February 7, 2002
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No description available
By Lori Weidenhammer
The Brain Dress
- January 17, 2002 to February 8, 2002
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Different/Diverse brings together European video artists from the UK, Finland, Estonia and Italy in a program that explores notions of normalcy and the abnormal. Different/Diverse is a production of Nuova Icona & Vortice and in Vancouver it will be co-hosted by grunt and Western Front. The screening and exhibitions give a strong look at current European video practice. The show consisted of a screening, on January 17, and a simultaneous opening hosted by grunt and Western Front, and a January 18 performance by Paolo Ravalico Scerri.
By Douglas Gordon, Giovanni Rizzoli, Graham Fagen, Gun Holmstrom, Kai Kaljo, Paolo Ravalco Scerri, Roi Vaara, Terry Smith - Curated by Terry Smith, Vitto Urbani