The Pigeon's Club

May 20 – 21, 2011
Performance Art

About the Program

In May 2011, L'Action Terroriste Socialment Acceptable (ATSA) and grunt gallery hosted an all-inclusive event entitled The Pigeon’s Club. This event took place at Pigeon Park, on the corner of Hastings and Carrall in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, BC. The event boasted a getaway complete with exterior swimming pool and deck chairs and additional tourist iconography in the heart of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, an area where social exclusion and human suffering are among the most intensely experienced in Canada, but where there is also the greatest concentration of mutual aid and frontline services. The Pigeon’s Club was a satirical critique of the glossy, squeaky-clean view of the world championed by travel agency brochures, which extol happiness as an all-inclusive package deal. ATSA provided its own outrageous take on the whole aesthetic of the all-inclusive to better pull people’s strings and stir up debate. gruntKitchen produced a video by ATSA titled in this mean time and a video documentary of the project by Elisha Burrows.

Curator

Glenn Alteen

Artist

ATSA

Identifier

2011.0520 PIG

Collection

grunt gallery Programming Archive

Location

Pigeon Park
399 Carrall Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6B 2J4
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations

grunt gallery (second location)
116-350 E. 2nd Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 4R8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations

In copyright. For uses beyond Fair Dealing, research requests, corrections, takedown requests, or other inquiries, please contact grunt gallery: archives@grunt.ca