Wednesday Lupypciw is from Calgary, Alberta, where she pursues a video and performance art practice. To make money she is a part-time maid. She also maintains a concurrent practice in textiles — weaving, machine knitting, embroidery and crochet — but this is done mostly while procrastinating on other, larger projects. The lazy over-performance art collective LIDS, or the Ladies Invitational Deadbeat Society, is one of those projects. She is a Fibre programme graduate from the Alberta College of Art + Design, and has worked and exhibited in various artist-run spaces throughout Canada.
Presented by Feminist Art Gallery (F.A.G.) and FADO Performance Art Centre
Conducted by Calgary-based artist Wednesday Lupypciw, QUEER NOISE SOLIDARITY (QNS) is a gigantic experimental noise event. One dozen drummers, each with their own kit, will occupy the space between the baseball field and the wooded area in Christie Pits Park where they raise the racket of their percussional superjam to the outer limits of the stratosphere over 3 different, intense sessions. The drummer’s sound vibrations expand into political/intentional realms, as well as psychic/aesthetic zones, like ripples in a pond.
Inspired by the roles that feminists play in developing community solidarity across many social justice trajectories including the LGBTQI2S, feminist, anti-racist and anti-poverty movements, QUEER NOISE SOLIDARITY also blows the roof off the traditionally dude-dominated art world of rock n’ roll. QNS is a queer feminist project, proudly matronized by FADO Performance Art Centre.
CREDITS Curated and presented by Feminist Art Gallery (F.A.G.) and FADO Performance Art Centre Conceived and conducted by Wednesday Lupypciw THE DRUMMERS: Alaska B, Celina Carrol, Heidi Chan, Tyla Crowhurst-Smith, Karen Frostitution, Laura Hartley, Eleanor King, Samara Liu, Rita McKeough, Conny Nowé, Shavonne Tovah Somvong, Simone TB *
[* Not all the drummers identify as female]
Thanks to Johnson Ngo and Heidi Cho for their energy gettin’ it done.
The Feminist Art Gallery (F.A.G.) is a response, a process, a site, a protest, an outcry, an exhibition, a performance, an economy, a conceptual framework, a place and an opportunity. We host we fund we advocate we support we claim. The Feminist Art Gallery is run by Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue. F.A.G. does not depend on formal funding sources nor will it ever be tied to one government or corporate controlling purse string. Instead, F.A.G. has created a web of matronage whereby people contribute to a pool of resources ensuring that artists will always be paid for exhibiting their work.
This fragrance opens us to the question, has the show started? It's winter, the theatre is colder than the street and the room is filled with people and all their winter smells: wet faux leather, down, too much shampoo, and beer breath. The atmosphere is a trickster. Am I late, am I early?
