PUNKARTNOW

This exhibition will begin to shine a light on the Vancouver Art/Punk Scene, with a particular focus on Punk's peculiar ability to defy easy or stable categorization and its ability to take on different forms according to the specific context. For fans and scholars of Punk, it offers rare, vintage video footage of the bands that rocked Vancouver.

This event will be a first step in gaining deeper insights into the people that contributed to what "Vancouver Punk" has come to mean and who seek to continue invoking its meanings in new forms. A future documentary will be using the videos as a lens to focus dialogue and pro-active social policy, members  of the VDO Collective will speak to: issues of identity in the punk scene; the relationship between the individual and the collective, the local and the global; and, the future of punk and the people who made it happen.