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Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan have collabiorated since 1989 on performance pieces, films, videos, installations, and bookworks. Their feminist concerns are articluated through humour.
Bio: Experimental, visionary, passionate, and irreverent, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan are two of Canada’s best known performance artists. Artistic collaborators since 1989, this Winnipeg-based 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 to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Their captivating, polished, and technically precise performances are the result of an extensive background in stagecraft, combined with a well-honed sense of form, medium, and audience. Clearly, a great deal of love, labour, and dedication go into being acclaimed as “one of the high-points of contemporary Canadian artistic production.” (Border
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