'Desire'

Work in progress showing November 25th 2004 at the Bonington Gallery, Nottingham

This piece is at the beginning stages of a work in progress or what I call a performance experiment. The finished piece will be presented on February 11, 12 in Glasgow at the NRLA. Look on my website Nettypage.com for more details.

This performance is inspired by the history of Hysteria, Charcot and the photographic Iconography of Salpêtrière asylum.

Please contemplate these two quotes,

"The Hysteric makes herself over in the image of his desire to know."
“I am a photograph, but I am also a camera and I see you too out there in black and white” Augustine

“He who has eyes to see and ears to hear becomes convinced that mortals can keep no secret. If their lips are silent, they gossip with their fingertips: betrayal forces its way through every pore.” Freud

Audience Instructions: Once you are though the door walk into the light and wait.

Calash designed by Ottis Sturmey

Costume by The Golden Cage, Nottingham

Photography by Harjeet Kaur

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