Friday, January 29

Presented by the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery in association with the Queer Print Club
Organized by Corinn Gerber

12 – 3 pm: Wendy (Workshop)

Concordia Print Media Digital Lab – EV 9-436
Engineering and Visual Arts Complex (EV Building)
1515 St. Catherine W.
Free, limited to 15 participants.
(The workshop is now full)

A Workshop led by Walter Scott on Alter-Egos, Covert Navigation, and Disruption.

There will be some time for the participants to discuss, make notes, and take turns sharing what infiltration and disruption through identity means for them. We will share potential strategies with each other. If you could make an identity to navigate disruption, what would it look like, and in what medium would it appear? How are you doing it already? For consideration, the workshop will include and examine the Wendy material as a point of reference, including the comics, the Japanese/Mohawk edition book, a shop sign, a billboard, posters, performance, bags, and more.

6 – 7 pm: Wendy’s Revenge (performance)

In response to the format of the artists’ talk, Walter Scott has developed this lecture-performance as a means to mediate his work and gather a public around it in a gallery space.

In Wendy’s Revenge, we meet Xendy, a contemporary artist and space pirate on the run from her past. She is informed by her naturopath that in order to exorcize her mysterious abdominal pain, she has to find her ex-boyfriend and kill him. This journey to find the source of her agony takes her across the galaxy, to a world submerged in Kombucha, and various other psychic landscapes, in hopes of destroying all that destroys her. A two-person performance featuring voices, images, and sound.

Performed by Walter Scott and Tricia Livingston.

Free and open to the public, all welcome! No pre-registration necessary.

At the Gallery

* A new tote bag edition printed by the Queer Print Club, and a book tabled by The Concordia Community Solidarity Co-op Bookstore will be for sale. Proceeds will go to the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal.

With mentions in both The Comics Journal and Frieze, alongside regular appearances on Hazlitt and The Hairpin, Walter Scott’s Montreal-born alter ego Wendy has seen a crossover of attention in the international contemporary art scene, the comic scene, and everywhere in between.

Wendy’s Revenge, a live reading performance of original science fiction, is presented publicly for the first time.