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visiting artist: Aine Phillips |
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| PROPOSAL
FOR LIVE ART/PERFORMANCE SERIES |
| Aine
Phillips 2003 |
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| A
SERIES OF SHORT PERFORMANCE PIECES TO BE PRESENTED IN
SEQUENCE WITH SCREAMACHINE/GEAROID DOLAN |
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series of work explores the connection between eroticism
and maternalism in a woman’s experience of her
body. An intimate, subjective expression of female sexuality
is at the core of the work. A condition of longing and
sense of loss are synchronous with this eroticism |
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| 1.
Baby Cake (eating her own children) |
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performance with audio and
props. |
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The
artist presents a beautifully made ‘baby cake’, (a rich fruit
cake, decorated with pink fondant icing in the form of a premature baby) and
ritualistically cuts it, offering slices to the audience for eating. As she presents
each slice to a member of the audience, she delivers a spoken text. The texts
express the dilemmas of motherhood, the desire for possession and rejection alongside
the contradictions of our culture in its representation of female sexuality and
motherhood.
A sound track accompanies the live action, it incorporates surging, ambient,
tonal music.
Duration: 8 minutes |
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| 2.
Milk Spill |
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performance with data projection, audio and props. |
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The
artist stands before the audience and delivers a spoken
monologue, a litany of the pains and pleasures of motherhood.
She is wearing a pink linen dress attached by tubes to
small squeezy bottles full of milk. As her monologue develops,
she takes the milk bottles and squeezes and the milk expresses
from the dress at her breasts. The milk flows from her
body through the dress, pouring in white columns down the
pink fabric turning it red. The milk pools at her feet
on wool blankets. She finally lies on the wet blanket and
wraps up.
Duration: 8 minutes |
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| 3.
Breast Pump Love-Bites |
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performance with data projection, audio and props. |
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The
artist stands before the audience wearing a long night
gown. She sensually drops the gown from her shoulders and
it falls on her hips. She takes a battery operated breast
pump and pumps/suctions randomly on her body, sucking the
skin until a welt rises, a ‘love-bite’ rises
on the skins’ surface. The pump is attached to a
hidden tube which feeds the baby’s bottle (the part
intended to fill with milk) slowly with a blood-like red
fluid. It appears that she is suckling blood from her skin.
A video projection accompanies the live action, it incorporates
images of milk spurts sensually assailing and issuing forth
from the breasts. A keening vocalisation on a pre-recorded
sound track intercuts with spoken texts. The voice laments
and allures, there is something exposed and revealed.
Duration: 15minutes. |
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