Tourture Garden's 24th Birthday Ball

Was a dream come true to perform at TG birthday ball at the Coronet Theater earlier this year, can't wait to go back!

In Between Time Festival 2015

Just rediscovered these images from my performing the Diamond Angel at In Between Time Festival 2015, they sure captured how super shiny the latex was!!!

Images
Top:Oliver Rudkin
Bottom: Luis Cruz

Collberation with Manuel Vason

One of the amazing images resulting in the collaboration with photographer Manuel Vason. It looked great in the SPILL 2015 catalog!

 
Check out his extensive project collaboration with performance artists:
www.artcollaboration.co.uk
https://www.instagram.com/manuelvason/

SPILL festival of Performance 2015

Spill Writing

Spill Geist: Breathless, imprisoned bodies

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Over the past few days we have amassed memories from and onto bodies (and it’s Remembrance Day, and with all its complex politics, it acts as a frame, a gesturing echo). And amongst these, we’ve encountered condemned bodies, imprisoned bodies, narrative and subversive bodies. And today, when we begin with bodies encased in latex and end with a burning body, we consider our own relationships to structures and frames, to mediation and engagement.

I think of the confrontation with breath in Adam Electric’s The Tomb, the outlines of bodies in latex, sculptural and liminal (from womb to tomb). The uncomfortable encounter with this sealed, exhibited space of the other (in equal measure controlled and loose, living and dead), which both enacts and blocks affect (who are we, hearing this body and its cries, this dramaturgy of life and death and narratives of breath). The breath and voice become the poetics through which the confrontation is staged, as we consider the pause, the interruption, the being in between. This is a spectacle of struggle: in order for the vacuum to be maintained, breath needs to flow outwards and as it does, our relationship to the bodies changes.

The Tomb is both monument and sculpture; it is made by and through breath, which provides our own space of confrontation. I am confronted with suffocation (and its embodiment), with working through the body, with agency and invisibility, with these outlines that are constantly abstracted by the material, with their own howls and calls for response. (And I think of processes of life and death, of communication and shared languages).

- Diana

for full piece: http://spillfestival.com/spill-geist-breathless-imprisoned-bodies/ 

HYSTERIA

Was great to perform at Hackney Attic earlier this year for Hysteria to celebrate their new issue!
So many wonderful performances, can't wait for the next one!
Check out thier past issues and the brand new one here: http://www.hystericalfeminisms.com/periodicals/