This performance was held on June 19, 1974 at The Western Front, an artist-run centre in Vancouver. It was the first of General Idea’s five “audience rehearsals.” In these performances, the artists instructed their spectators when and how to gasp, laugh, and applaud, ensuring “appropriate mass reactions” for The 1984 Miss General Idea Pageant: a performance in the form of a beauty pageant, complete with contestants, judges, and a winner. Blocking was staged as a television broadcast, revealing the importance of the documentation, circulation, and preservation of General Idea’s work.
General Idea
Director
...All the Marbles61%
Fedora67%
City Lights82%
Broke70%
Misbehaviour63%
WWE WrestleMania XXIV80%
The Fall76%
Sound of My Voice63%
Drumline69%
WWE WrestleMania 2183%
Love Don't Co$t a Thing76%
StreetDance 3D64%
My Dinner with Hervé63%
Danny Collins67%
All About Nina59%
Hairspray66%
Let's Make Love64%
Anywhere but Here61%
Cradle Will Rock64%
Burlesque72%
