DANCE CARD – BENOÎT LACHAMBRE

3:09 p.m. Place Ville Marie, Montreal.

The MAC is currently closed.

Dancing in front of part of the art work : « Open Ended / Painted Shut »

Kahnotónnkwe / Olontshéra Kahnhóton

Walter Scott: Open Ended / Painted Shut

New mural on the MAC’s wall at Place Ville Marie

The installation presented is a mural made with self-adhesive vinyl reproducing a comic strip designed by Scott for the MAC at Place Ville Marie. Open Ended / Painted Shut features Wendy at a loss for inspiration and obsessed with her artist’s block throughout a long, story-free day that ends with a well-lubricated evening and a false hope. The work continues Scott’s reflection on the figure of the artist, here underlining the anxiety caused by the pressure to produce.

Walter Scott is a Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) interdisciplinary artist who works in comics, drawing, video, performance, and sculpture. Questions of representation, cultural production, popular culture, and narrative construction are central to his practice. His comic series Wendy chronicles the continuing misadventures of a young artist working in a satirical version of the contemporary art world.

Walter Scott was born in 1985 on the Mohawk territory of Kahnawà:ke. He lives and works in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal.

Kanien’kehà:ka nohaia’tò:t’en, tanon raráhstha, nia’té:kon róntstha ne nahó:ten enhrón:ni. Nia’té:kon rarhanon’tònnions. Wahahiatonhserón:ni ne iokara’sté:ris wahaká:rariste, né: Wendy akokà:kara.

Ki kowá:n’en karáhston aonhá:’a iora’nentaks káson Scott roráston oká:ra raonniá:ton MAC raoná:wen Place Ville Marie nón:we. Open Ended / Painted Shut [Kahnhotónnkwen / Okontshéra Kahnhóton] ieiá:tare ne Wendy iah thénon teionterien’tatshén:rie’s tiókonte ne ionnonhtón:nions tsi teiakotrohwás:se ne aierahste tsi niwenhní:seres ieneatenhniseró:kten é:so ká:ien ne onhé:ka tánon iah ní:ioht ne Scott tsi shakó:kens ne iráhstha, re’néhstha tsi teiako’nikónhrhare akoio’ténhsera tkarihón:nis.

1985 nihawennakerá:ton ne Walter Scott tsi ratí:teron ne Kanien’kahá:ka ne Kahnawà:ke. Tiohtià:ke thén::teron tánon é’tho thoió’te.