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The Other Room explores the animal self, humiliation, and the attempt to stand. The performance presents a relentless state of struggle and a failure to perform. A half horse half human figure struggles to stand up in the semi-darkness, the floor is coated with a slippery fluid that makes it impossible to stand. A bright spotlight and haunting piano music interrupts this struggle repeatedly, each time this occurs the figure tries to perform a tap dance. The floor is so slippery that the figure repeatedly falls, always returning back to the beginning, never able to complete the performance.
The Other Room has been presented as in theatre spaces, galleries and site-specific locations as an installation, a performance and a durational piece.
The Other Room was first presented at East End Collaborations Platform in 2004 now Fresh AiR. Following EEC 2004 an extended version of the performance was commissioned by the Foundation for Women’s Art to be presented at The Uncanny Tales Exhibition that featured the artists Paula Rego, Ana Maria Pacheco, Marcelle Hanselaar and Oona Grimes. The work has been presented more recently at FEM 09, an international festival of performance art showcasing the work of women. The Other Room will be presented on 10th June 2010 at The Barbican Art Gallery as part of the Surreal House Exhibition and from 25th- 27th August as part of Duckie’s Performance and Cocktails event at The Royal Vauxhall Tavern. |
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