RESUME Anna Banana 287 East 26th Avenue PO Box 3655 , BC, Canada Vancouver, BC, Canada V5V 2H2 V6B 3Y8 Phone (604) 876-6764

Personal Biography Born: 1940, Victoria, BC, Canada Education: UBC, Vancouverl958-65, Bachelor of Education; Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, 1969-70 Early Career: Teaching, Vancouver Public Schools, 1964-66, The New School, Vancouver, 1966-69. Massage workshops, Vancouver, Toronto & Ottawa, 1971-73. Artistic Beginnings: Batik, drawing & painting. Shift from object making to conceptual work, August 1971, Town Fool Project, Victoria, BC

Artistic Orientation To stimulate involvement, participation and reaction by confronting audiences with an alternate view of art, thus encouraging a re-evaluation of art from a new perspective. To these ends; participatory events in the public sphere, long-term involvement in the international network, producing and exchanging individual works and publications (The Banana Rag and VILE Magazine), initiating cooperative publishing ventures, performances of sound poetry, Futurist theatre works and personally scripted performances.

Selected Career Highlights Publications: The Banana Rag, 22 issues from 1971-88 VILE Magazine, 7 issues from 1974-80 About VILE, 106 pg. book about VILE Magazine and my SF public events, March 1983 Euro-Tour Commemorative Stamp Edition, 15 sheets of stamps in an edition of 16 copies, October 1987 International Art Posf/Collaborative Color Stamp Edition, 2 sheets, February 1988 Events: The Banana Olympics - , 1975, public event and videotape - Surrey, BC, 1980, public event and videotape Going Bananas Fashion Contest, Vancouver Show, CKVU, April 1,1982 Banana Art Event for Live it Up, CTV, June 1983 Banana License Petition, Granville Island Market, Vancouver, 1984, event and videotape Performances: Futurist Sound - 26 city European tour of Futurist Theatre works, September-December 1978 Toward the Future -15 city Canadian tour of Futurist Theatre works, Sept-Dec 1980 Why Banana? - 14 city Canadian & USA performance tour, Oct-Dec 1982 In the Redlln the Black and Banana Power performed in Copenhagen, Umea, Rosenheim, Den Haag & London during European Tour, Sept - Dec 1986 World Series - Western Front, December 1987 Curating: Performance Series, Artropolis Show, Vancouver, October 1987 Exhibitions: over 300 group, mail-art shows plus: New Reform Gallery, Aalst, Belgium, 1977 - solo Stempelplaats, Amsterdam, 1978 - 2 person show Galerie St. Petri, Lund, Sweden, 1979 - 2 person show International Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY, 1979 - group show Ten Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan, 1980 - group show Union Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, 1981 - solo show Vancouver Art & Artists 1931-1983, Vancouver Art Gallery, 1983 - group show October Show, Vancouver, 1983 - group show The Warehouse Show, Vancouver, 1984, Installation: Banana Split - group show Artists* Stamps, 13th Hour Gallery, NYC, May 1985 - group show Husets Gallery, Copenhagen, October 1986, Banana Split Installation - solo show Page 2 - Banana Resume

Grants Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines (CCLM), NYC, to assist in publishing VILE Magazine, 1975, 1977 and 1979. & BC Cultural Fund, through the Surrey Art Gallery, to produce and document the 1980 Banana Olympics (still photography & video tape). Canada Council - performance tour, Toward the Future, fall 1980 -B Grant, 1 year support plus project costs & travel, April 1981-82 -Project Cost Grant for Why Banana?, July 1982 -Travel assistance for Why Banana? tour, fall 1982 -Project cost grant to produce About VILE, January 1983 -B Grant, March -December 1987 -Project cost grant, Jan-March 1988 to study video and AV production technologies

Collections Smithsonian Institute, Wash., National Gallery of Art, Wash., DC Museum of Modern Art, NYC Archiv Sohm, Markgroeninger, W. Germany Inst, of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Pompidou National Museum, Paris Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto National Art Gallery, Canberra, Aust. Museu de Art Contemporanea, Sao Paulo Museo de Bellas Arts, Caracas Otis Art Institute, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Sackner Archive, Miami Beach, FL Jean Brown Archive, Tyringham, MA LAICA, Los Angeles, CA NY Public Library, NYC Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Franklin Furnace, NYC Sculpture Center, Sydney, Australia

Workshops & Residencies Performance workshop, 2 weeks, Kingston Artists' Association, Feb 1982 Banana Zone, installation workshops for Grades 1-12, Kamloops Public Art Gallery, April 1983 Mail-Art Workshop, Arts, Sciences & Technology Center, Vancouver, July 1983 Costume Workshop, The Imagination Market, Vancouver, March & August 1983 Anna Banana Answers the Mail, residency/exhibition at the Great Mail-Art Supply Company, Greenport, NY, May/June 1984 In the Red, performance workshop & production, U of CA, Areata, May 1985 In the Red/In the Black, performance workshop & production, Off Center Center, November 1985

Guest Lectures San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco State University San Francisco Academy of Art San Jose State University California State University at: San Diego Art Librarian's Conference, UC Berkeley Irvine, Long Beach and Areata Vancouver School of Art Emily Carr College of Art and Design Alberta College of Art Ontario College of Art Sunderland Art College, Sunderland, England St. Lawrence College University of Regina University of Ottawa Concordia University, University of Windsor Fanshaw College, London, Ont. N. Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem University of So. Carolina, Columbia, SC University of Sweden, Umea Royal Academy of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark Academy of Art, Gent, Belgium Zeebelt Theatre, Den Haag, Holland Art Teachers' Convention, Coquitlam, BC Page 3 - Banana Resume

Graphic Design & Production San Francisco Bay Guardian, paste-up & Production Manager, 1974-75 Sherrell Graphics, San Francisco, design & production, 1975-76 Banana Productions, San Francisco, my own design & production business, 1976-80 Intermedia Press, Vancouver, design and production, 1983-86

Selected Bibliography Articles written by AB- The New School-Vancouver, published in Radical School Reform, Simon & Schuster, February 1969 The Transformation of Anne Long, published in Maclean's, Vol. 85 #3, March 1972 The Banana Olympics, published in the SF Bay Guardian, Vol. 9 #10, March 1975 ALIVE in the Gallery, commentary on workshop, Kamloops Public Art Gallery, May 1983 Why Banana?, text on performance in Art Contemporain, #6-7, Winter 1983-4 Mail Art: Canada & Western USA, published in FFFlue, Vol.3#3 & 4„ February 1984 Mail-Art Canada and Women in Mail Art, published in Correspondence Art, Contemporary Art Press, San Francisco, CA, 1985

Articles, comment, photo about &/or artwork reproduced- FILE Magazine, May 1972, December 1973 Art in America, article on Mail-Art by David Zack, February 1973 Art et Communication Marginale, Balland, Paris, 1974 Artscanada, December 1972-Jan 1973, article on West Coast artists Esquire, article, Their Arts Belong to Dada, August 1974 OUI, The First Lady of Banana, December 1976 American Speech, Vol.51 #3-4, fall-winter 1976, page 210 SF Review of Books, Vol.3 #2, review of VILE, September 1977 New Dawn, outline of activities & 4 photos, September 1977 The Print Collector's Newsletter, Vol.VIII #4, "Alternative Space; Artists' Periodicals"\ 1978 High Times #37, September 1978, photos & commentary The Rubber Stamp Album, Workman Publishing, 1978 Copy Art, Richard Marek Publishing, 1978 High Performance, Vol.1 #2, June 1978 and \bl.2 #1, March 1979 The Total Banana, Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich, Inc., 1979 Art Week, Vol. 10 #29, September 1979 Art Forum, February 1980 Performance Anthology, Contemporary Arts Press, SF, CA, 1980 S.W.A.K., Workman Publishing, 1981 Vancouver: Art & Artists 1931-83, Vancouver Art Gallery, October 1983 Village Voice Literary Supplement, "Wait a Minute Mr. Postman," February 1985 World Art Post, catalogue from show, by Geza Perneczky, Szepmuveszeti Muzeum, Budapest 1987

References Sam Carter, Foundation Program, Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver Tony Emery, University of Victoria Rosa Ho, Museum of Anthropology, UBC, Vancouver Glenn Lewis, Head, Media Arts, Canada Council Tom Graff, Artist/Curator Michael Bell, Art Consultant, San Francisco Judith Hoffberg, Editor, Umbrella