Wild Ride

Wild Ride, 2009

Shawna Dempsey - Winnipeg, Canada
Lorri Millan - Winnipeg, Canada

Performance Art, Multimedia Installation

Bay Street emblem of Canada's banking industry is closed. The smell of cotton candy and raucous music fill the air. Two midway rides reflect the whirling, tilting exhilaration of the bull market and its less than thrilling collapse. Free to the public and staffed by recently downsized businesspeople, the rides invite audience members to kinetically contemplate the ups and downs of the recent economic crisis. Out of the darkened financial district, screams will be heard!




Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan have created a body of internationally acclaimed work that addresses feminist, lesbian, and social justice concerns with biting wit. Their videos, such as Were Talking Vulva, A Day in The Life of A Bull-Dyke, and Lesbian National Parks and Services, have received numerous awards and been viewed worldwide. Their performance works twist traditional mythology and iconography, explore notions of the lesbian body, and look at the devolution of modern-day language and democracy.
www.fingerinthedyke.ca

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Travel & Events

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• Nuit
• Blanche
• Toronto
• 2009