Royal Art Lodge (Marcel Dzama, Hollie Dzama, Michael Dumontier, Drue Langlios, Neil Farber, Myles Langlois
Lodge Drawings

October 6 to November 2, 2000

The Lodge's nurturing of an inclusive, community–fostering art making process results in work deftly immune to the dictates of fashion and the shifting aesthetic paradigms and demands of the art market.

Bruce LaBruce
Power Race

September 1 to 25, 2000

Using photographs taken during the filming of his most recent film SKIN FLICK and images shot for NYC porn magazine Honcho, Bruce LaBruce develops a dialogue concerned with ideas of representation, and specifically, the sexual/political power dynamics inherent in gay pornography. Publication catalogue includes writing by the artist, Mernie Lee Plested, Michael Turner, and Noam Gonick.

Jonathan Wells
(I feel for you)

July 21 to August 15, 2000

Mocking the history of the still life and presenting a performative action that mimics the exhibition, Wells presented 10 bouquets that were left to decay. His neglect questions why we paint flowers and suggests the irony of their role in cultural traditions involving life and death.

Terence Gower
Campaign PITT

July 21 to August 15, 2000

Terence Gower presented in the front window of the gallery a fictional advertising campaign presenting possible strategies including mock–ups of poster campaigns and digitally imposing our identity on neighbouring billboards.

Tangy Duff
Bureaucratic Ambient

June 16 to July 12, 2000

The 25 minute audio tour invited groups of four participants to become a unit that together explores the physical and behavioral boundaries within the various "free space" areas and permit zones through the downtown core.

Whoremonal Surge is organized by the Coalition for the Rights of Sex Workers.

Steven Rayner, Jessie Lacayo, James Whitman, Barb Choit, Sarah Edmonds, David Cuesta, Catherine Jones, Rebecca Watt, Carly Haddon
Cellular Origins

May 12 to June 10, 2000

There is a certain presence of the body within this supposed scientific debate. The view falls in the state of mind of a rhizome: the character of which permits you to endure a psychotic transference, knowing nothing.

Kirsten Forkert
Fleeting (performance)

May 7 to 10, 2000

Kirsten Forkert rides a bike through several different neighbourhoods in the Vancouver area. While she is riding, a stereo attached to the bike plays a sound piece; a series of texts that mean different things depending on the location. Co–sponsored by Center A, Museum for Contemporary Asian Art, as a part of Asian Heritage Month.

Robin Fry
Hunters Handshake

April 7 to May 6, 2000

With considerations of microcosmic and macrocosmic parallels, new overlapping dimensions materialize. Fry's goal is to find plastic reference points that describe the perfect romance between order and disorder.

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