Looking at Ritual, Race and Gender in light of my current interest in The history of Black Performance artists from Harlem Vaudeville & Burlesque performers through to blues live music performers and lyricists to contemporary Live/Performance artists. I came across this short bio of Japanese artist Mariko Mori and this intriguing performance by LA based Tiffany Trenda this live art piece relates historically to Guillermo Gomez Pena and in relation to my art practice to the Human Zoo piece created back in 2009 during the Encounters and Documents encounter series.
Human Zoo, Artist/Curator - Emma Thackham (2009) Performer - Ethan Eardley, Project - Encounters and Documents
http://www.apath.org/creating_religion.html
Considering a performative piece about alternative approaches to the practice of religion through creative living.
I've begun researching Black performers from the 1940s and 50s - The Love Making Bureau
I recently attended Sweatshop at Arts Admin who are based at Toynbee Studios in London - This was an Arts Council funding session specifically aimed at helping Live Art Practitioners/Producers to complete their applications. The group size was kept really small allowing for an informal approach that made the session much more accessible and friendly than the previous funding seminars I have attended with ACE. The five attending artists are involved in art forms ranging from Dance, Live and Visual art and Contemporary Theatre Practice - we all have a freelance practice so it was useful to swap ideas and experiences. The day consisted of running through an application the producers at Arts Admin had been successful with and workshop style activities where we could apply our own case study or application ideas. I left feeling encouraged, more confident, less isolated and determined to postpone my application until it is better researched and planned. On a side note the food in the cafe downstairs looked and smelt great and as it had long been on my review list, I'm happy to report that their homemade soup tastes great hot or cold - I had mine lukewarm (in place of a fag break) - and found it nourishing even on a hot day!
