Wednesday Lupypciw: ALLIES HONOUR YOU

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The Drummers:
Amber Phelps Bondaroff
Val Halla
Leo Keiser
Jaye Kovach
Laura Leif
Lisa Lipton (a.k.a. Frankie)

ALLIES HONOUR YOU is an experimental noise event and "living sculpture" conceived and conducted by Calgary artist, Wednesday Lupypciw. Six individuals, variously trans- and female-identified, each armed with their own drum kit, will occupy Victoria Park, forming a triangular locus as Lupypciw leads them through three intense sessions of drumming and chanting. ALLIES HONOUR YOU is a public declaration of feminist alliance with queer communities, claiming a space, sonically and psychically much larger than its physical dimensions. Both riotous and utopian, the work celebrates the radical potential of collectivized action, ritual, and rock 'n' roll.

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 maintains a concurrent practice in textiles - weaving, machine knitting, embroidery, and crochet - but this is done mostly while procrastinating on other, larger projects. The performance art collective LIDS, or the Ladies Invitational Deadbeat Society, a loosely-knit group of purposefully lazy womenfolk, is one of these projects. Lupypciw is a Fibre programme graduate from the Alberta College of Art + Design, and has worked and exhibited at many artist-run spaces throughout Canada.

Wednesday Lupypciw, ALLIES HONOUR YOU, 2014. Photo by Carey Shaw.