Woodward’s Amateur Historical Society Archives collects the work of W.W.A.S., a provisional research collective assembled by Josh Gabert-Doyon as part of his Notes on Permanent Education (N.O.P.E.) fellowship with 221A. The collective (Brit Bachmann, Gabi Dao, Josh Gabert-Doyon, and Byron Peters) occupied Pollyanna 圖書館 Library to plan and carry out an investigation into Vancouver’s Woodward’s building as a historic theatre of class struggle. W.W.A.S. charted the building’s varied articulations over the past century to grasp Woodward’s as a historical constellation; that is, as a tangle of intertwined narratives through which to comprehend the distinct co-development of urbanism and capitalism in Vancouver.
Woodward’s Amateur Historical Society Archives collects the work of W.W.A.S., a provisional research collective assembled by Josh Gabert-Doyon as part of his Notes on Permanent Education (N.O.P.E.) fellowship with 221A. The collective (Brit Bachmann, Gabi Dao, Josh Gabert-Doyon, and Byron Peters) occupied Pollyanna 圖書館 Library to plan and carry out an investigation into Vancouver’s Woodward’s building as a historic theatre of class struggle.
W.W.A.S. charted the building’s varied articulations over the past century to grasp Woodward’s as a historical constellation; that is, as a tangle of intertwined narratives through which to comprehend the distinct co-development of urbanism and capitalism in Vancouver. The collective’s research traces the history of Woodward’s by drawing connections between fragments of civic archives, activist histories, commercial ephemera, redacted emails, and nostalgic Facebook groups. W.W.A.S. understands this ‘prehistory’ as a force that haunts Woodward’s controversial ‘present history’ of the last two decades: its acquisition, demolition, and reconstruction as a ‘social-mix’ condo-art megaplex by Westbank Corp, a model now archetypal of private-public redevelopment schemes.
The nature of the collective’s findings led its activity out of the Pollyanna 圖書館 Library stacks and into unfamiliar territories in purpose and method. In coming to understand present-day Woodward’s as an engine of ‘artwashing’, wherein the ongoing, brutal redevelopment of Vancouver’s ‘urban frontier’ is sold as a form of cultural production, the collective moved to refocus its energies to not only understand he politics of Woodward’s, but to intervene in it. W.W.A.S. took on a program of ‘action-research’, where knowledge production meets the political through tactics of insurgent publishing, journalistic provocation, and building living solidarities. The Woodward’s Amateur Historical Society Archives collects this work.
Browse Collection 05
Media link |
Name |
Call No. |
Format |
Produced by |
Material |
Selected by |
Collection |
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Body Heat: The Story of the Woodward’s Redevelopment |
WWAS 001 |
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Edited by Robert Enright |
Print |
W.W.A.S. |
05 |
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Facing the Music: Documenting Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Redevelopment of Downtown Los Angeles |
WWAS 002 |
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Allan Sekula |
Print |
W.W.A.S. |
05 |
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Vancouver Ltd. |
WWAS 003 |
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Donald Gutstein |
Print |
Kay Higgins |
05 |
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Citizen City: Vancouver’s Henriquez Partners Challenges Architects to Engage in Partnerships that Advance Cultural Sustainability |
WWAS 004 |
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Marya Cotten Gould, Gregory Henriquez, Robert Enright |
Print |
W.W.A.S. |
05 |
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West Coast Line 41 – 37/ 2-3: Woodsquat |
WWAS 005 |
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Edited by Aaron Vidaver |
Print |
W.W.A.S. |
05 |
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Carnegie Newsletters, a selection of issues from 1992-2017 |
WWAS 006 REF |
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Carnegie Community Centre |
Print |
W.W.A.S. |
05 |
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Access All Areas: Conversations on Engaged Arts |
WWAS 007 |
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Visible Arts Society,
Edited by Tania Willard |
Print |
W.W.A.S. |
05 |
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Every Building On 100 West Hastings |
WWAS 008 |
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Stan Douglas |
Print |
W.W.A.S. |
05 |
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-Guide to Documents
-4 folders VPD FOI
-Newsletter scanned |
WWAS 009 REF |
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Aaron Vidaver, Friend's of the Woodward's Squat Archive |
DVD |
Aaron Vidaver, Friend's of the Woodward's Squat Archive |
05 |
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The Beat of Frances Street |
WWAS 010 REF |
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Eleven Foot Productions |
DVD |
Aaron Vidaver, Friend's of the Woodward's Squat Archive |
05 |
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In Search of Present Tense: Art in the Domain of Monopoly-Finance |
WWAS 011 |
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Andrew Witt & Graeme Fisher |
Print |
W.W.A.S. |
05 |
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AstroTurf |
WWAS 012 REF |
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Byron Peters |
Synthetic Fibers |
W.W.A.S. |
05 |
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BEAUTY IS CLASS WAR |
WWAS 013 REF |
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W.W.A.S. |
Print, Foamcore |
W.W.A.S. |
05 |
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WESTBANK IS EVIL |
WWAS 014 REF |
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W.W.A.S. |
Print, Foamcore |
W.W.A.S. |
05 |
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DISPLACEMENT IS NOT BEAUTY |
WWAS 015 REF |
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W.W.A.S. |
Print, Foamcore |
W.W.A.S. |
05 |
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HUCKSTERS |
WWAS 016 REF |
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W.W.A.S. |
Print, Foamcore, Wood |
W.W.A.S. |
05 |
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VIOLENCE MASQUERADING AS BENEVOLENCE |
WWAS 017 REF |
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W.W.A.S. |
Print, Foamcore, Wood |
W.W.A.S. |
05 |
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WHEN DID WE SAY YES TO SURVIVAL BEING DISCARDED DELETED DEMEANED? |
WWAS 018 REF |
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W.W.A.S. |
Print, Foamcore |
W.W.A.S. |
05 |
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Alone and Cold: The Davies Commission – Inquiry into the death of Frank Paul |
WWAS 019 |
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The William H. Davies, Q.C., Commission |
Print |
W.W.A.S. |
05 |
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Woodsquat Digest |
WWAS 020 |
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W.W.A.S. |
Print |
W.W.A.S. |
05 |
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Department Store Nostalgia And Bankruptcy |
WWAS 021 REF |
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W.W.A.S. |
Print |
W.W.A.S. |
05 |
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Fama Push And Pull |
WWAS 022 REF |
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W.W.A.S. |
Print |
W.W.A.S. |
05 |
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Lasting Impact And FFB |
WWAS 023 REF |
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W.W.A.S. |
Print |
W.W.A.S. |
05 |
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Westbank And Social Mix |
WWAS 024 REF |
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W.W.A.S. |
Print |
W.W.A.S. |
05 |
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Displacement Is Not Beauty Banner |
WWAS 025 REF |
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Beverly Ho, W.W.A.S.
Photo by Sungpil Yoon |
Canvas |
W.W.A.S. |
05 |
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British Law and Arctic Men: The Celebrated 1917 Murder Trials of Sinnisiak and Uluksuk, First Inuit Tried Under White Man’s Law |
WWAS 026 REF |
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R.G. Moyles |
Print |
Jakob Knudsen |
05 |
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The New Reality: The Politics of Restraint in British Columbia |
WWAS 027 |
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Edited by Warren Magnusson, William K. Carroll, Charles Doyle, Monika Langer, R.B.J. Walker |
Print |
Jakob Knudsen |
05 |
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Prison Exposures: First Photographs of Life Inside Prison by a Convict |
WWAS 028 REF |
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Robert Neese |
Print |
Jakob Knudsen |
05 |
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Artropolis 93: Public Art and Art About Public Issues |
WWAS 029 |
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Edited by Sue Kelly, Lisa Langford, Francesca Lund, Ann Rosenberg |
Print |
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery |
05 |
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W.W.A.S. at Housing Justice Fair, Vancouver Tenant’s Union first AGM + Convention |
WWAS 030 REF |
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Sungpil Yoon |
Polaroid |
W.W.A.S. |
05 |
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The Volcano: Issue 8 – Spring 2017 |
WWAS 031 |
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The Volcano Editorial Collective (Dave Diewert, Harold Lavender, Herb Varley, Ivan Drury, Jean Swanson, Natalie Knight, Sarah Sheridan, Shannon Bundock) |
Print |
W.W.A.S. |
05 |
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Vancouver Metro: Monday, March 12, 2018 |
WWAS 032 |
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Vancouver Metro |
Print |
W.W.A.S. |
05 |
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Woodsquat |
WWAS 033 REF |
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W.W.A.S. |
Print |
W.W.A.S. |
05 |
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