Photos by Elsa Thorp
This live performance integrated my work 'The Star' - a development through the year with 'Oracle of Delphi' which integrates many of the studio actions I discovered in an interactive performance which asked the asked audience to asked me questions to which I responded in 'psychomagic' actions or administered 'psychomagic' actions to the audience. I sat upon my yoga matt which a range of objects used in my studio rehearsals which are discarded from my life or used as part of the project. 5 actions were performed to questions "you said the wall has the power- why?' (I asked him to write his family's name in spray paint on the wall) "what is the meaning of Frankfurt?" (I put my rose quartz on my chest and put a handy towel used roll in my mouth, made animal sounds through it and tried to light it, then threw 1 cent pieces at the window) "what about love?" (I asked the man to take a tarot card from my animal pack, he chose whale- souls path, honour your souls purpose) "what is the book you have written?" (I picked up Bataille showed it to the audience and said I did not write this book) "will we be ok?" (I put on my hair dye plastic gloves and took a toilet roll and gave it to the man who was sitting at one end of a semi circle, then took it around the group, I then took off my dress, put on my collaborator lucy beeler's music, did flapping actions, took off my underwear and singlet and danced a tai chi like routine, also slid my obsidian crystal to the man asking- which is absorbs negativity") I concluded the performance by joining the question mark the first man had drawn on the wall into a heart and wrote END. Bowing.
I was interested in this format within an art gallery/fine arts performance context- playing with things from my rehearsals and testing out in a public audience space this idea of 'female wisdom' (Oracle of Delphi) within the Book Fair week as an extension of the female erotic body, but also again tying ideas of this 'giving' and the administering and performing of 'psychomagic' actions in a reasonably controlled environment. Where does the idea of 'sexuality' or the 'female erotic body' begin and end when it is generally so bound to money, so to include all associated with female embodiment is challenging to cliches.
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