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Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan |
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Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan are two of Canada’s best-known performance artists. Artistic collaborators since 1989, this duo were catapulted into the national spotlight in their early 20s with the controversial, now world-renowned performance piece, We’re Talking Vulva. Since then, this acclaimed duo has toured extensively throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and Japan, their film and video works being screened in venues as far-ranging as women's centres in Sri Lanka, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Istanbul Biennial, the Royal Ontario Museum, and the Sydney Gay/Lesbian Mardi Gras. The works they have created over the past two decades have been acclaimed as “one of the high-points of contemporary Canadian artistic production.” (Border Crossings) Dempsey and Millan have also curated projects, programs and exhibitions for Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Centre (Buffalo), Herland Feminist Film and Video Festival (Calgary), Gallery YYZ (Toronto), Queer City Cinema (Regina), Gallery 1C03 (Winnipeg), and the Winnipeg Art Gallery, where they are currently employed as Adjunct Curators. Winnipeg is their chosen home. |
In the self-created world of the video/print/performance space, our characters have the freedom to make their own self-definitions. These personae gleefully disrupt the images and lessons contained in all the stories and codes that have shaped us. They subvert and pervert accepted meanings, and re-tell tall tales truly. By making people laugh, we open them up to thinking differently. By placing our physical bodies in the work, we perform our realities into existence.
CONTACT
Finger in the Dyke Productions 485 Wardlaw Ave. Winnipeg MB R3L 0L9 (204) 453-8845 finger@mts.net www.fingerinthedyke.ca
Lesbian National Parks and Services, ongoing (1997-present), performance, photo: Gareth Pammenter.
Scentbar: Fragrances for Troubled Times, ongoing (2003-present), performance,
Consideration Liberation Army, 2007, performance, photo: Bill Eakin.
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