Halfbred Series
May 16 – June 3, 1995
Exhibition, Performance Art, Screening, Cabarets, Series, Music, Reading
About the Program
Performance was only a part of the larger multidisciplinary project, Halfbred, which included exhibitions, installations, video screenings, and performances. Despite a somewhat contentious title, Halfbred adeptly addressed the experience of being caught between identity categories. Many of the works in the series pointed to the marginal status of mixed race, bisexual, or transgendered people, and the politics surrounding ideas about cultural hybridity. Three different cabaret nights framed the issues—miscegenation, bisexuality, and transgenderism—and provided context for performance events by Margo Kane, Lorena Gale, Âhasiw K. Maskêgon-Iskwêw, Christine Taylor, Archer Pechawis, Oliv, Michael Vonn, and Aiyyana Maracle.Exhibitions were held at grunt gallery (Flois Aranas, Melanie Fei-Lin Boyle, Lake, Kyo Maclear, Teresa Marshall, and Jan Wade, May 16 to June 4), Video In (Paul Wong, May 17 - 30), and Pitt Gallery (Catherine Charles Wherry, Clo Laurencelle, Melinda Mollineaux, and Sulih Williams, May 18 - June 4).
Artist
Paul Wong, Margo Kane, Lorena Gale, Âhasiw Maskêgon-Iskwêw, Christine Taylor, Archer Pechawis, Oliv, Michael Vonn, Aiyyana Maracle, Neil Eustache, Connie Fife, Mercedes Baines, Marcus Nabess, Mark Tadao Nakada, Lisa Robertson, Andrea Fatona, John Taylor, Myk Gordon, Teri Snelgrove, Ruby Stone, Ivan Coyote, Denise Lonewalker, Haruko Okano, Stephen Anthony, Jan Wade, Cathi Charles Wherry, Clo Laurencelle, Melinda Mollineaux, Sulih Williams, Teresa Marshall, Kyo Maclear, Flois Aranas, Glenn Alteen, Melanie Fei-Lin BoyleCredits
Coordinator: Merle AddisonCuratorial Assistance: Kathy March and Archer Pechawis
Curators: Glenn Alteen, Andrea Fatona, Aiyyana Maracle, and Haruko Okano
Design and Layout: Merle Addison
Logo: Joseph Haag
Photographer: Merle Addison
Program Editor: Aiyyana Maracle
Publicity: Aldona Le Goff
Technical Director: Archer Pechawis
Video Documentation: Mike MacDonald
Website and CD-ROM development: Jay Thompson and Brigitta Kocsis
Identifier
1995.0516 HALPrograms in this series
Miscegenation CabaretConfessions of an Indian Cowboy
What Colour is Black: Art, Politics and Racial Identity
Âsowaha
Bisexual Cabaret
Cuffed
Halfbred
Transgender Cabaret
Facets of Human Sexuality
Hung Like a Donut
Gender Moebus
Collection
grunt gallery Programming ArchiveLocation
grunt gallery (first location)209 E. 6th Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 1J8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations
Pitt Gallery
317 W. Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6B 1H6
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations
Video In Studios
1965 Main Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 3C1
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations
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