Vivo Media Arts Centre has completed its digitization of 40 tapes recorded by Vancouver artist, Paul Wong. The videos document Vancouver’s Chinatown, Chinese Canadian culture, Downtown and East Side art, punk, and New Wave scenes, activities t Helen Goodwin’s Performance Warehouse on Granville Island, and Wong and the Mainstreeters early performance art events and happenings.
The digitization of Art, Video & Culture through the Portable Lens was digitized with support from the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre through its BC History Digitization Program.
For more information about the 2021/2022 BC History Digitization Program Projects, click here.
Video still from Dragon Dance (1973) Paul Wong.