This exhibition is the culmination of Johanna Winter’s time as the 2018-19 Printmaking Artist in Residence at the Lawrence Arts Center.

{   An endling is the last known of a species.   }

{   An ENDLNG is our protagonist resisting her fate to come undone.   }

ENDLNG is a puppet-figure performance, installation, and sound piece that proposes a narrative in which female desire and agency demand to be witnessed. Our protagonist confronts her burdensome longing and disappointment through a merging of puppetry, gesture, language, and ritual. Bolstered by her puppeteer minders as she resists a deteriorating condition, the ENDLNG glimpses a moment of renewal and resilience through a shadow fever-dream.

Using printmaking, marionettes, shadow theatre, sound, and invented phonetics, ENDLNG reclaims the fear of being alone through an account of what it means to be loved and be seen.

FINAL FRIDAY RECEPTION May 31  |  5-9 pm

PERFORMANCES
May 31  |  7 pm & 8pm
June 6  |  7 pm & 8pm
June 15  |  2 pm & 3pm

INSIGHT Art Talk June 10  |  7 pm