Welcome to Broken Intervals

Broken Intervals: Durational Art in Public Space

Stirring up some local Vancouver performances and happenings, the Pirate Performance Collective presents the Broken Intervals Performance Festival. Conceived by six Emily Carr students of different backgrounds and conceptual interest, this city-specific festival explores the layers of complexity and hierarchy within scientific theories and social observations of time and space in relation to the city of Vancouver, adding to the rich art history as well as dynamic discourse of durational and site-specific performance art.


Fifteen artists have been invited to perform durational works in various site-specific locations exploring the fragility of time and space, public and privately owned spaces, relationships within memory, the affect of time on people and places, object relation theories and truths created through the use of ephemera, as well as taking up space in terms of power and authority. Various panel discussions and artist talks, organized by the festival, critique the ongoing usage of time and space as artistic subject matter and examine the human fascination with chronology, expansion and isolation.

For Festival Information: http://brokenintervalsperformancefestival.blogspot.com/