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Western Front
Artist-run centre
Public transit accessTranslink buses 19, 8, 9, 3, 99-B.
Websitehttps://westernfront.ca/

Western Front (Western Front Society) is an artist-run centre located in

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was founded in 1973[1] by eight artists (Martin Bartlett, Mo van Nostrand, Kate Craig, Henry Greenhow, Glenn Lewis, Eric Metcalfe, Michael Morris, Vincent Trasov
The Vancouver Sun as one of the province's 100 most influential people as the end of the millennium approached in 1999.[5] As a focal point of experimental art practice through the 1970s and 1980s, the Western Front, in connection with other artist-run-centres like it, played a major role in the development of electronic and networked art forms in a national and international context.[6][7]

Over more than 40-years, the Western Front has promoted critical investigations into and surrounding interdisciplinary, media-based, anti-object, and

Exhibitions.[citation needed
]

In 2015, the society received $1.5 million from a City of Vancouver Community Amenity Contribution (CAC) fund related to a nearby development by Vancouver property developers, Rize. The contribution enabled the society to purchase the building from its owners.[10][11]

Publications

In 1993, the Western Front published the Whispered Art History: Twenty Years at the Western Front, which documents and celebrates the first twenty years at one of Canada's first artist-run centres.[12] The volume features essays by Peter Culley, Karen Knights, Judy Radul, Alex Varty and William Wood in addition to a comprehensive chronology of Western Front's events during its beginning years [12]

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-4597-2236-1
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  2. ISBN 1-55017-200-X. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help
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  3. ISBN 978-1-55365-867-2
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  4. ^ "ARCLines: The Origins of the Western Front". ArcPost. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
  5. ^ "Vincent Trasov: The Peanut Grows Up". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
  6. ^ "Western Front Western Front Society Media Archives Project". The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
  7. ^ Becker, Ken (2015). "Not Just Some Canadian Hippie Bullshit: The Western Front as Artists' Practice". Filip. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
  8. ISBN 978-1-55152-214-2
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  9. ISBN 978-1-55490-564-5
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  10. ^ "Vancouver's Western Front, critical of developers, gets $1.5m from developers". CBC. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. January 10, 2016. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
  11. ^ "Developer dollars enable Western Front to buy building". Vancouver Courier. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
  12. ^ a b Whispered Art History

External links

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