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Le lundi 6 décembre 2021, à 12h00.

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Université Concordia, John Molson building (1600 Maisonneuve W, Guy-Concordia metro), room MB 2.430

Film screening of Wendy Coburn’s Slut Nation: Anatomy of a Protest on December 6th, 2021 from noon to 2:00pm. by Zoom or on location at MB 2.430

Wendy Coburn’s Slut Nation: Anatomy of a Protest, focuses on the world’s first Slutwalk. The 2011 protest was a response to a Toronto Police officer’s comments on a panel at York University which suggested that sexual assault prevention was the responsibility of the victim.
The grassroots protest motivated similar actions around the world.
Coburn’s reconstruction of the 2011 intervention emphasizes the actions of a rehearsed group of provocateurs, including their subsequent appearances in the media. Assembling footage and photographs taken by citizen journalists, the media, and the artist’s friends, Slut Nation aligns itself with the disturbing history of the infiltration of protests in Toronto, including those following the bathhouse raids in 1981 and those which produced the largest mass arrests of citizens in Canada at the G20 in 2010.

“Ultimately, Coburn’s expansive body of work poses a series of questions related to freedom of assembly, the critical role of protest, and tactics used to undermine social justice organizing and positive social change.”
Art Museum at the University of Toronto

The screening will feature an introduction to Coburn’s oeuvre and a post-film discussion between Alex Tigchelaar and Jess Dobkin, both close social, activist, and creative allies of Coburn’s. The screening will take place during Tigchelaar’s regularly scheduled class Feminist Performance: Art and Sexuality. Tigchelaar wishes to open the screening to the Simone de Beauvoir community since Coburn’s work is finally more publicly available and is a critical response to police and saboteur interventions in women’s actions against gendered violence. The event is intended as a reflection on the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.

Wendy Coburn (1963 - 2015) was a Canadian artist and professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design University. She was best known for her sculptural and video art, specifically Slut Nation: Anatomy of a Protest (2014). Coburn's work explored representations of women in popular culture; ideas of nationhood; the roles of image, spectacle and myth in mediating cultural difference; and the haptic and phenomenological in relation to queer and sexualized bodies, everyday objects, the world of matter, and human/animal existence.

Jess Dobkin is an internationally acclaimed artist. Her performance and curatorial projects are presented at museums, galleries, theatres, universities and in public spaces internationally. She was active in the downtown performance art scene in New York City before moving to Toronto in 2002. Recent projects include her 2017 Dora-nominated performance, The Magic Hour, which was developed through The Theatre Centre Residency program with support from the Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council. She created The Artist-Run Newsstand (2015-2016), a one-year artist-run newsstand that operated in a vacant subway station newsstand kiosk. Her Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar (2006, 2012, 2016) continues to receive significant scholarly consideration and media attention. She was Guest Curator of MONOMYTHS at FADO Performance Art Centre (2016-2017), Guest Curator of Harbourfront Centre’s HATCH performing arts residency program (2011-2012) and a co-curator of the 7a-11d International Festival of Performance Art (2009-2012.) She has taught as a Sessional Lecturer at OCAD University, the University of Toronto and Sheridan College, and was a Fellow at the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto. Her photographic images, created to accompany her performances, are also published and exhibited as stand-alone works. Her film and video works are distributed by Vtape.

Alex Tigchelaar is an interdisciplinary artist, activist, researcher, PhD student and instructor. Since 2000, with her companies the Scandelles and Operation Snatch, she has created plays, burlesque, film, street performance and conceptual artworks that have centred both the histories and presence of real sex workers. The Viminal Space, her interdisciplinary activist performance partnership with Butterfly: The Asian and Migrant Sex Worker Rights Network, `SWOP Behind Bars, SWANS Sudbury, and Stella, l’amie de Maimie, was featured at the AGO in 2016 and Toronto’s Nuit Blanche in 2017. Since 2014, Alex has co-created performance and oral history presentations with the survivors of The Huronia Regional Centre. She has accompanied Huronia survivors as a technician and co-presenter to several events, including The Canadian Conference on Developmental Disability and Autism and a panel at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, both in Winnipeg. As the research and development coordinator for Concordia’s Institute for Urban Futures, Alex developed and hosted workshops and panels with advocates for safe drug consumption sites and sex worker rights advocates around Covid-19 response. She is currently working on a project called La Ville Extraordinaire in collaboration with Concordia’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling and Stella, l’amie de Maimie, where she is recording the oral histories of sex workers who worked in Montreal from the 1970s to the early 2000s. These stories will be made into a podcast called Nous sommes toujours là.