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Glenn Alteen is a Vancouver-based curator and writer, and the founding Program Director of grunt gallery. He has worked extensively with performance art and is a cofounder of LIVE Performance Biennial (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005). His writing has been published in The Place of Objects: The John David Lawrence Collection (VAG 2025), Other Places: Reflections on Media Art in Canada (MANO 2019), Wordless: The Performance of Rebecca Belmore (grunt 2018), Unceded Territories: Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun (MOA 2016) Making Always War (Stride Gallery 2015), Access All Areas (grunt 2008) and Caught in the Act (YYZ Books 2006).
Alteen has also helped organize a number of conferences, including Indian Acts: Aboriginal Performance Art (2002), co-produced with TRIBE and grunt gallery; InFest 2004. produced by the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres; and Live In Public: The Art of Engagement at ECU (2007). In recent years, Alteen has been involved in archival projects as a producer of websites including Medicine (2008); Beat Nation (2009) through grunt gallery; Ruins in Process: Vancouver Art in the ‘60s (2009) produced through grunt and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at UBC; Activating The Archive (2011); Background This Place (2013); and Taking Advantage – The Mainstreeters Redux (2014).
As program director of grunt gallery, Alteen was active in creating sustainable administration practices through the purchase of a facility (1995); the creation of the Glenn Alteen Legacy Fund (2006), an endowment held by the Vancouver Foundation; and the Blue Cabin Residency Program (2019).
In 2018, Alteen was awarded the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts for Outstanding Contribution to Contemporary Practice.
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Glenn Alteen is a Vancouver-based curator and writer, and the founding Program Director of grunt gallery. He has worked extensively with performance art and is a cofounder of LIVE Performance Biennial (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005). His writing has been published in The Place of Objects: The John David Lawrence Collection (VAG 2025), Other Places: Reflections on Media Art in Canada (MANO 2019), Wordless: The Performance of Rebecca Belmore (grunt 2018), Unceded Territories: Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun (MOA 2016) Making Always War (Stride Gallery 2015), Access All Areas (grunt 2008) and Caught in the Act (YYZ Books 2006).
Alteen has also helped organize a number of conferences, including Indian Acts: Aboriginal Performance Art (2002), co-produced with TRIBE and grunt gallery; InFest 2004. produced by the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres; and Live In Public: The Art of Engagement at ECU (2007). In recent years, Alteen has been involved in archival projects as a producer of websites including Medicine (2008); Beat Nation (2009) through grunt gallery; Ruins in Process: Vancouver Art in the ‘60s (2009) produced through grunt and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at UBC; Activating The Archive (2011); Background This Place (2013); and Taking Advantage – The Mainstreeters Redux (2014).
As program director of grunt gallery, Alteen was active in creating sustainable administration practices through the purchase of a facility (1995); the creation of the Glenn Alteen Legacy Fund (2006), an endowment held by the Vancouver Foundation; and the Blue Cabin Residency Program (2019).
In 2018, Alteen was awarded the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts for Outstanding Contribution to Contemporary Practice.
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