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the artists | The Walking Woman (1985) |
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Hermine Demoriane and I organised many performance-events including running several clubs. We also worked together on a variety of performances. These included He who is your Lord is your Child, too at Centre Charles Peguy, based on imagined writings of Lou Andreas-Salomé, who with her indifference to moral conventions and insatiable intellectual curiosity, challenged the gender roles of her day. She was a colleague, of such authors and thinkers as Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud and the play brought up issues around Narcissism ( I worked on several pieces in which narcissi decomposed to obscure and become part of poetic texts) It also involved the Virgin Mary in several conversations particularly about sex and gender with Freud. In my studio in Limehouse, Hermine organized an event based on Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839), remembered today as a passionate and intrepid traveller in an age when women were discouraged from being adventurous. My work, in this context, referenced The Walking Woman, a work of American author Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) who primarily wrote fiction and essays, with many of her works focusing on Native American culture. ‘The Walking Woman’ is unconcerned with social conventions and respectability since "she had walked off all sense of society-made values….’ There are murmurings about the excessive evenings of events about to launch themselves into vivid and chaotic life at the Screen on the Green, Islington. Unique and diverse skills and talents, colourful and charming creatures, the obsessed, the obscure, the delightful, the beautiful, the pretentious, the intense, the wild, the comical, the excessive, the grandiose, the visionary and the grotesque, all share 15 minutes each of limelight in two evenings jet-packed with short fast-moving events. And there will be a mystery castaway choosing the records to be wrecked with and the songs to be sunk with, as they contemplate a night on a desert island. This dense collage would begin its wondrous journey at 11.15 on 22nd June and blasts through a few hours of high-speed, high-powered exuberant existence. Press release Screen on the Green Cabaret Futura has been left to the custody of Anne Bean and one Hermine and as a consequence may have been given just the uplift it needed when on the verge of becoming merely passé… this was not Alternative Cabaret yet alone New Variety… this was performance art. Paul Burwell looked magnificent as he drummed, his freshly shaven head emblazoned with red paint. Anne Bean meanwhile read from a book emblazoned with real flames… Cabaret Futura flourishes. Perf Magazine I was lucky enough to catch the last of these events (Cabaret Futura at the Latin Quarter) ……The loss of this venue is indeed a sad one—the star-studded ceiling, the revolving stage, the glass floor which lights up, the magnificent mirror ball…. From the delightfully seedy formica ‘restaurant’, the disgruntled bouncers and the star-studded audience all contributed to the festive atmosphere of the occasion. Anne Bean and Paul Burwell took to the stage………this was one of the best performances I have seen them do: the intensity held the audience riveted once more. Paul’s drumming was positively inspired and Anne’s singing and moving with flaming firebrand against slide projections were extremely powerful. Performance magazine |
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