Performance was only a part of the larger multidisciplinary project, Halfbred, which included exhibitions, installations, video screenings and performances. Despite a somewhat contentious title, Halfbred adeptly addressed the experience of being caught between identity categories. Many of the works in the series pointed to the marginal status of mixed race, bisexual or transgendered people, and the politics surrounding ideas about cultural hybridity. Three different cabaret nights framed the issues—miscegenation, bisexuality, and transgenderism—and provided context for performance events by Margo Kane, Lorena Gale, Âhasiw K. Maskêgon-Iskwêw, Christine Taylor, Archer Pechawis, OLIV, Michael Vonn, and A. Maracle. A CD-ROM of the project, supplemented by artists' writings about their experiences and personal insights on being "halfbred," was eventually produced.
