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Anna Banana fonds
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Interactive/performance art

From 1971 onwards, Banana began using interactive and performance art prominently in her artistic practice. This series captures Banana’s various projects and performances. Beginning with her Town Fool activities in Victoria, Banana would often create projects which engaged audience participation. Beginning in the 1990s, she began to create large interactive projects which engaged in research-like activities, under the aegis of the Specific Research Institute. These projects often produced a large number of response forms, which can be found throughout this series, along with reports, certificates of participation, scripts for performances, working drafts and other items. Most items in this series are textual records.

Series is arranged into ten subseries: Bananology and other certificates, Specific Research Institute – But Is It Art?, Specific Research Institute – Proof Positive That Germany Is Going Bananas, Specific Research Institute – Miscellaneous, In the RED/In the BLACK, Futurist Sounds, The WORLD SERIES, A Condensed History of Performance Art, Regifting Bananas, Miscellaneous Projects and Performances.

Specific Research Institute – Proof Positive That Germany Is Going Bananas

Subseries arose out of an interactive project that Banana conducted out of Germany in the mid-1990s through her Specific Research Institute called “Proof Positive That Germany is Going Bananas” (often shortened to PPTGISB). Using results from what Banana called “Roar Shack Banana Peel Tests”, as well as personality inventory response forms, interviews and other tests, Banana culminated her research into a large report and exhibit of German banana related items published in 1994.

The series consists of tests, reports, press and promotional materials, as well as banana artworks and correspondence that Anna collected over the course of her travels for this project.

The WORLD SERIES

Subseries is made up of documents relating to the production of The WORLD SERIES, a play created by Anna Banana and Ron Brunette in 1987, and performed at Western Front. It was a scripted performance exploring issues relating to globalization and consumerism. Subseries consists of mostly textual materials, including slide information, lighting and audio cues, script development, tv production information, typesetting, photographs and other materials.

A Condensed History of Performance Art

A Condensed History of Performance Art was a program put on by Anna Banana in the early 1990s as an introduction to performance art. It was performed for the Aspects of Performance Art series by the Canadian Centre of the Arts at Owen Sound in 1992. Series consists of textual records in the form of scripts and draft scripts, press clippings, research notes, as well as Anna’s initial correspondence regarding performance logistics and programs for the Aspects of Performance Art performance series.

Miscellaneous Projects and Performances

Subseries contains records of numerous small performances by Banana from the 1970s to the late 2010s. Banana saved only the planning documents, promotional materials or press from these art pieces, which often only hint at what was performed or produced. Some examples include her Town Fool activities, Going Bananas Fashion Contest and First Female Pope performance.

Subseries contains mostly flyers, notes and letters, photocopies, posters, and other printed matter, as well as a fruit hat used in an unknown performance.

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