Art and Curatorial :Collaboratory
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Participatory Dissent: Debates in Performance staged an encounter between traditional forms of performance art (endurance/duration) and new forms of social practice and intervention. Produced in conjunction with the LIVE biennale of performance art, the program looks to the overlaps between practices, modes of thinking, and opinions about contemporary performance. Viewers are invited to participate, enjoy and intervene in four days of events consisting of individual performance art, social intervention, and discussion surrounding performance art practices that forge new relationships between artists, site and community. Facilitating the creation of new work by artists from across Europe and North America, Participatory Dissent: Debates in Performance will consist of individual and collaborative works, online discussions, a round-table discussion event at the Western Front and a panel discussion at the Emily Carr School of Art. Situated at the Western Front, online, and in various outdoor locations in Vancouver's East End, works will address public intervention, alternative economies, the limits of the body, and cultures of fear in the post 9/11 era.