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Pisces Midheaven: A Response to the Lenore Herb Audio Cassette Collection
Publication & Mixtape – $25*
*shipping included
Publication & Mixtape Launch | Discussion
With researchers/responders: Elisa Ferrari and Casey Wei
Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018 at VIVO Media Arts Centre, 7pm
A Vancouver Independent Archives Week Event
Over this summer, artists Elisa Ferrari and Casey Wei began the excavation of Vancouver artist and activist Lenore Herb’s audio cassette collection from the Lenore Herb fond at VIVO’s Crista Dahl Media Library & Archive. Herb was a prolific documentarian, recording events, friends, and colleagues on video and audiotape. She was also an ardent punk music collector.
Ferrari and Wei digitized and transcribed over 20 hours of interviews, panel discussions, conversation, audio collage, and other bits of ephemera. The fascinating and charged texts read like episodic scripts. For VIAW, Ferrari and Wei created a publication of excerpts from their transcriptions, and a mixtape of audio from the voices, issues, and sounds of the Vancouver art scene, 40 years prior.
Ferrari and Wei will talk about their response to Herb’s audio cassette collection. Publication, mixtape, and poster will be available for purchase. Cocktails and conversation to follow.
Herb’s archive of video, audio, photography, and textual materials is available to researchers by appointment. library@vivomediaarts.com
Venue Accessibility
> Wheelchair ramp>
Ring buzzer at main door and alert staff that the door at top of ramp needs to be opened.
The ramp has two runs: the first run is 20 feet long, and the second run is 26 feet. The ramp is 60 inches wide. The slope is 1:12. The ramp itself is concrete and has handrails on both sides.
There is an outward swinging door (34 inch width) at the top of the ramp leading to a vestibule. An inward swinging door (33 inch width) opens inward to the exhibition space.
> Washroom >
Door: 33 inch width inward swinging. Toilet: 11 inch clearance on left side. The washroom has a handrail.
Washroom is all genders.
VIVO is located in the homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples in a warehouse space at 2625 Kaslo Street south of East Broadway at the end of E 10th. Transit line 9 stops at Kaslo Street on Broadway. From the bus stop, the path is paved, curbless, and on a slight decline. The closest skytrain station is Renfrew Station, which is three blocks south-east of VIVO and has an elevator. From there, the path is paved, curbless, and on a slight incline. There is parking available at VIVO, including wheelchair access parking. There is a bike rack at the entrance. The front entrance leads indoors to a set of 7 stairs to the lobby.
A wheelchair ramp is located at the west side of the main entrance. The ramp has two runs: the first run is 20 feet long, and the second run is 26 feet. The ramp is 60 inches wide. The slope is 1:12. The ramp itself is concrete and has handrails on both sides. There is an outward swinging door (34 inch width) at the top of the ramp leading to a vestibule. A second outward swinging door (33 inch width) opens into the exhibition space. Buzzers and intercoms are located at both doors to notify staff during regular office hours or events to unlock the doors. Once unlocked, visitors can use automatic operators to open the doors.
There are two all-gender washrooms. One has a stall and is not wheelchair accessible. The other is a single room with a urinal and is wheelchair accessible: the door is 33 inches wide and inward swinging, without automation. The toilet has 11 inch clearance on the left side and a handrail.
To reach the bathrooms from the studio, exit through the double doors and proceed straight through the lobby and down the hall . Turn left, and the two bathrooms will be on your right side. The closest one has a stall and is not wheelchair accessible. The far bathroom is accessible.
Elisa Ferrari is an artist and curator, and holds a BFA (University of Architecture of Venice) and a MAA (ECUAD). She works with text, image, and sound. To consider acts and implications of retrieval, she produces projects that manifest as installations, sound walks, artist books, and performance; often addressing or incorporating archival fragments. She is part of – – / dashes, a sound performance collaboration with John Brennan. She is currently collaborating with Stacey Ho on a book of graphic scores for deep listening and sound making.
Casey Wei is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and musician based in Vancouver. She graduated with an MFA from SFU in 2012. Her practice has evolved from filmmaking (Murky Colors in 2012, Vater und Sohn / Father and Son / 父与子 in 2013), into works that cross over between art, music, and the community at large (Kingsgate Mall Happenings in 2014, Chinatown Happenings in 2015, and the art rock? series that began in 2015). In 2016, she began Agony Klub, a music and printed matter label that releases material under the framework of the “popularesoteric.” She also plays in the musical projects Late Spring and hazy.
Lenore Herb (1947-2010) AKA Doreen Gray, was an artist, activist and provocateur in Vancouver’s art and environmentalist communities. She was a videographer, photographer, writer, curator, arts administrator, social and environmental activist. Archiving was a part of her life and practice, and she is noted as archivist for bill bissett. Lenore was directly involved with blewointmentpress (1960s +), Pacific Cinema (1970s-1980s) and Metro Media (1979-1985), as well as a participant in the Sound Gallery and Trips Festival. She worked to stop the Ashcroft/Cache Creek hazardous waste incinerator, was President of SPEC (the Society Promoting Environmental Conservation, 1990-1995), on the Board of Directors for the Recycling Council of British Columbia (1990-1994), and on the management committee of the British Columbia Environmental Network.
