another thank you to everyone - from jacob this time

again thank you all for the week. It was a challange and not sure what i make of it yet. look forward to seeing how the blog will be used now.

Franko- thank you, i am amazed by your patience. thank you for your observations and the way you handle your interventions. hope your able to have a good rest now.

Biggi- please email me your email address as i have lost it. jacob@jacoblove.net

love to you all-

Jacobx

thankyou Biggi and thank you all

i enjoyed our chat last night too Biggi and through out the week...I don't feel like I was very articulate with a head of thick soup!! Thanks for your support and encouragement..it's become resoundingly clear to me the bad habit i have of undercutting myself and my work through apologies, un-ended sentences and the like..To stand up and be counted and let the work stand alone without justification / supplication / intervention / bowing and scraping ad infinitum!

shame and being silenced are ironically some of the themes I am currently exploring - and for me I need to make sure its not just 'therapy' !

thank you Jon for your inciteful observation(s)...humour...rapport...the scratching of the floor (video footage to be posted soon...!) and wamrth....+ lest we forget the impromptu piana recitation of my text..disgusting dirty bitch etc..you are a natural performer. Can I post the sound recording (if I find out how?)

thank you both for your generosity of spirit - and that goes for everyone else..

I finally left the studio after Jon and Biggi's help with clearing up at around 5pm...me and Biggi stayed for a drink till 8pm..at which point we said our good byes and I hobbled back wheeling my bike home precariously balanced with jumble for the car boot...

Lots more thankyous.....and dot dot dots..

FRANKO - thank you for facilitating this whole process...the week worked on many different levels for me...it was powerful and exhausting..and its effect will resonate on for some time to come...and for the shared meals, the espressos, Beuy - ball - meditation..Rothko and his innocence..your openess and honesty..

Harminder - I hope that your friend is ok and sorry I didn't say good bye - didn't realise till after that you were leaving then..good luck with the up and coming performance. And Wil - thanks for your feedback on tuesday and will see you at your private view...if not before in your studio. I'd like to talk more about how people and objects occupy and relate to space - emplace..it is part of my current research.

I am planning a work in progress in London on or around 12th June - details to follow. Put in diaries..I am doing some experimentation with composer Rob in an empty to flat next week and will post details if i decide to present or get feedback...or for people to book 'appointments to view'

Tom and your attention to details...your classical reduction...your photogenic chair sitting..your gentle containment..Jacob - i like your sparkly engergy and the comments you made to peoples' work..any feedback?

thank you to all those I asked to walk backwards and reminisce....Biggi, Zaza, Tom, Rachel, Jon - thanks for giving me windows into your intimate spaces...it is helping me find ways of framing and getting at the material I am exploring.....more to follow..visits still to come..Zaza - your interview was visceral and poetic - thanks for entering into the spirit of it..

Bits from the game (by Jon, Biggi, Tom, Jacob, Zaza, moi):

IF I WERE YOU THEN IT WOULD BE VERY DIFFERENT FOR ME
THEN THE WINDOWS WILL OPEN BY THE NUMBER 73
IF I WALK BY THE CANAL HUMMING
THEN SHORTS WILL BE RED
IF I FELL IN LOVE WITH YOU
'THEN' SEEMS LIKE A DIFFICULT WORD TO START A SENTENCE WITH
IF ONLY I HADN'T SPILT THE CHEMICALS ON THE FLOOR THIS MORNING
THEN HE HAD A WANK
IF I HADN'T BEEN BORN
THEN PEOPLE MAY REALISE THERE IS NO POINT IN SHOUTING AND FIGHTING
IF I WASH MY EYES IN WATER OF YOUR THROAT
THEN THERE WAS ONE!
IF THE FRANKO B MENTORING SCHEME WOULD NOT EXIST
THEN THE UNIVERSE WOULD NOT BE EXPANDING
IF PEOPLE WOULD SIT DOWN AND COMMUNICATE IN A GENTLE MANNER LIFE WOULD BE MUCH CALMER
THEN AGAIN I'M PROBABLY WRONG
IF ONLY I KNEW WHAT I WANTED
THEN I'LL WEIGH OUT PARTS OF YOUR BODY TO 21 GRAMS
IF WISHES WERE HORSES BEGGARS MIGHT RIDE
THEN THE PLANET EVOLVED INTO A NEW PERFECT UTOPIA

Images etc to follow - as soon as I've found the damn lead!

Lisa
kissesxxxxx

lisa...

Hey Lisa,
It was great chatting to you yesterday eve ... and letting the week slowly run out via wine and cake.
Our conversation was very helpful in regards to how to get moving forward from now on... after a rattling week for me.
It gave me a bit of a stability while my artistic castle was tumbling around me and exposing me to the open elements - also thank you to Harminder giving me some good tips earlier this week.
... A big thank you as well to Jon, who really cracked the nut open and put a word to it - and Jacob for the intensely challenging questions ... and of course Franko for provoking the situation...
Now I go and recharge myself - relax ... xxxxxxx
:-)
Biggi

thank you

thank you for this week , i hope that it was usefull in some way to all of you, x franko
i need a break ...

Hi all, hope all is good on the eve of the gatherings. I really want to hook for some of the evening jaunts next week but I have just finished a 3 months residency and all the fun kicks off at the same time, check it out here:

Build Residency

I won't be free to come up, which is gutting as I could do with a major catch with everyone, and enjoy the group cook-in', luvin' & fun!

If last year is anything to go by, you'll have a blast!



Rachel, well done on the new job!
Jacob, liking the images.
Lucille hope the magic was magic!
Harminder, nice halo.
To everyone else, have a great week!

I will be up soon....

new website

hello everyone,

i'm pretty much set for the residency, it should an enlightening experience!!??

my new website is finally up and running, please take a few minutes to have a look, and post any feedback onto the blog would be appreciated, it has a few teething problems so please be patient!!

www.harminderjudge.com

see you all soon,
Minda xx

arab Cinema Weekend @ BAFTA, 30 March -1 April 2007

Arab Cinema Weekend @ BAFTA, 30 March -1 April 2007

We are pleased to announce the 3rd Zenith Arab Cinema event taking
place at the BAFTA at 195 Piccadilly from 30 March to 1 April 2007.
This year’s selection is very exciting and we recommend that you book
your tickets in advance.
The opening night film is the Oscar nominated Days of Glory (winner of
2 awards at Cannes) followed by a Q&A with the director
and the launch party in the David Lean Room at BAFTA.

For full listings of the 9 films being shown over the weekend please
visit www.zenithfoundation.com.
Opening Night Party on the 30 March from 10 - midnight in the Davis
Lean Room at BAFTA (£10).
Bookings for the films & the Opening Night Party can be made by
contacting rana@zenithfoundation.com.

art is what i feel

art
art is
art is what
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Monday night

Hi everyone,
Next week sounds busy and inspiring already! I'm looking forward to seeing everyone.
Franko said that Monday would be a good night to come over to mine for dinner, it would be great if everyone could make it. Lucille and I are going to prepare some food We'll do veggi / wheat free but please let me know if any of you have any other diet requirements and we can take that into consideration.

the address is 59 Dorchester Court, Herne Hill, SE24 9QY
Take a 68 or 468 bus to my door from Elephant and Castle or 68 from Waterloo, Franko said there may be enough cars to get lifts for people.

Call me on 07940557710 if you get stuck.
Lovely! see you monday
xxx

ALSO

DEAR ALL, PLEASE BRING A DVD/FILM on monday YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHOW TO EVERY ONE , [ this is for thuesday ] you [ the group will choose what to see on thueday afternoon.. is fine for people not to be all toghere every evening as long you make one at least.. after 6 pm you are free to do what you want ..
x x x franko

Africa and back

just a quick hello to everybody. As the blog has been so busy over the last couple of weeks I'll endeavour to leave some comments over the next few days as i'm still in the process of consuming the imagery and text there. Africa was an excellent trip and a much needed break and once again i did not want to come home, but more about that at a later stage...

Franko, Katherine and Rachel congratulation on the good news received over the last couple of weeks.

Lisa, you are mofe than welcome to visit my home for your project.

I'm soo looking forward to next weeks residency.

evenings during residency..

hello every one and i mean every one . monday evening we are , at my flat in vaterlo. lets see if is practical or we can go some where where we can have a big table ...

tuesday we could all meet on the south bank at strada ? manick is coming..
wenenesday jaccobs is going to the film gay festival , any takers ? the rest can come around mine or meet eat in the south bank
thuseday lisa wants to go to see some show at toynbee .. any takerss?
the rest we can go out some where to eat .
or some one house ? again the south bank..?
friday evening im going some where else ..
lucille is performing at the vauxal tavern ..

Against Oblivion - thurs 8pm during residency?

Hey guys

hope you are all well and in a frenetic creative place and getting there getting and enjoying the journey

just want to say BIG thanks again for all the responses to my Booking A Slot in your home post...I AM going to respond to you all of you individually and aim to visit everyone...I'm off to glasgow wednesay afternoon and visiting all over tilll sat night..it's a juggle to arrange all the visits i want to make but bear with me!

Also have a suggestion for thursday next - during residency - don't know if you've anything planned yet but I'd really like to catch if poss a performance at Toynbee studios called

Against Oblivion
(see artsadin website + barbican.org.uk to book)

it's at 8pm and in the place we'll all be..
and it really chimes in for me with what I'm doing right now...it's on memory and hope - a performance/ music piece...some of the blurb:

" Using texts from the history of the 20th century, its conflicts and its migrations the piece focuses on the increasing reliance on forgetfulness to engender oblivion as a mechanism for psychological defence in an age of atrocity and brutality..."

any takers? I haven't booked yet..plan to at weekend..

Lisa
xxx

p.s. sorry I will respond to other posts - I'm mostly just added stuff in my own bubble and not in dialogue with whole - partly cos I'm immersed in my own meandering project (at last) but partly laziness and bad time management. am working on it!

19 March 2007

Reading the blog over the past couple of weeks, I haven’t really responded very much. There’s been a lot of images and visual material posted, which is great to see!! I vaguely remember someone saying they found it difficult to write on the blog….and since I read that I have been thinking of how much more I use the blog to write,(question, try to articulate), rather than post images. Aside from the fact that I have not been making/playing visually over the past month or so, I am reluctant to talk about work that it very young…. I am thinking about a few specific images…which I think at least one os on the website for the mentoring scheme- of a figure stood, sat on a plinth. I am interested in pushing these images into a live context, but I do not want to talk about it too much and post lots of images because I don’t want to tell people what it means, or what associations it has come to have for me, because I want it to exist for itself….for people to be with it in a live context, and to experience it in that situation first, before I waffle on about it here….
I hope that makes sense. More recently I am aware of how much my work sits in a comfort zone… making work in a live context scares the shit out of me, but I know with particular images, things that I have filmed because an idea has come up, would exist, should exist as a live experience…they are too flat and controlled and …well, I guess comfortable for me… anyway, if I can post an image here I will….if you don’t see one it’s because I can’t get the bloody thing to work again.

I hope everyone is well.

Take care, Katherine.

Thoughts from previous posts

I have been finding it a little difficult to get into the blog recently…I feel detached from it… maybe it isn’t just the blog, but I certainly do feel detached in some sense.

I’ve been reading back through previous posts from earlier in the year, and there are things that have come up that I wanted to pull to the front again, because they interested /interest me, because I felt their trail had been lost amongst more recent postings.

Zaza, I had not read your post way back in response to what I had said about some of the images you had posted….you were saying that domination for you was not ‘putting’ yourself in a position but that you are exploring that side of yourself in a safe environment…in a context of control and play…

I guess what is difficult as a viewer is how to read it without seeing someone putting herself in a position in which they are being dominated. The word bondage alone suggests someone being tied up or constricted or restrained, which does involve control, and therefore it is hard to think and see some f the images without being aware of the connotations that go along with it.

The word offensive came up, (can’t remember where exactly), and it is not that I find the images offensive as such,…I am not offended by them, but yes, I suppose they are threatening…the one with the guy dressed from head to toe in black with his penis out and something in his mouth…this image in particular makes me feel uncomfortable and it is threatening.

I am drawn more to those images where we see only a snapshot of what is going on….I do like the one with the red/pink rope with your hands tied behind you…but I wonder where this sits within your ‘exploring that side of yourself’…is it about the experience itself, or as an artist is it about the images that emerge from that experience? Maybe this is what I have been, or was trying to ask before, but failed to actually get to the point…

The experience of it is the part I am not drawn to, because of how I feel about your being vulnerable, (even if you are not, but that is how I instinctively feel towards it), and the control being in someone’s else’s control, but the images I am interested in….of having one’s hands tied behind one’s back….of walking in high heels along the same line until you fell over….if it is about exploration, would these images still need to be seen in the same context, or can they exist outside of that, without an explanation?

Skates at last

Oh, it's workng today, fantastic!!

Lucille here are the skates for you to borrow, I will bring them down to London next week. I can't get down until Tuesday evening at the earliest, but I am looking forward to catching up with everyone.

jacoblove.blogspot.com

I am posting loads more images- but i thought it better to put them on my own blog page rather than on here- will put more on here when the really good ones come to me. i am just working through ideas at the moment- they are all from video- but i am quite enjoying them as still, i just have to work out how and where they will live as still images. please say anything you have in way or response to any images i post- thats why i post them. which ones are interesting/work for you? which don't? anything, everything.

so go to jacoblove.blogspot.com to have a lookie!!!




x X love and tenderness in the springtime X x

xx

Jacob

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art is what i breathe
art is what i give away
art is how i bleed
art is how i fuck
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art is free
art is to express
art is to speak out
art is to be quiet
art is to find beauty in
art is to dignify
art is to find
art is to share
art is to horrify
art is to care
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art is what i take
art is what i accept
art is what i deny
art is what i give birth to
art is what i kill
art i how i suffer
art is how i forgive
art is how to live
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art is how i fuck
art is how i walk
art is how i love
art is free
art is to express
art is to speak out
art is to be quiet
art is to find beauty in
art is to dignify
art is to find
art is to share
art is to horrify
art is to care
art is what i give
art is what i take
art is what i accept
art is what i deny
art is what i give birth to
art is what i kill
art i how i suffer
art is how i forgive
art is how to live
art is what it is worth
art is compassion
art is life
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Skates

I am having trouble uploading these skates on as an image....will persevere for a little bit longer...

Can I book a slot in your home?

Dear Group,

I'd really appreciate your input and contribution to in the research and development I'm doing for a new work...part of which involves my documenting people's homes.

Can I come and visit you over the next 2 weeks (and possibly later in April- but the sooner the better)? When do you have a spare hour / evening / day ?

- I am happy to book a short or long slot - and dependant upon how many visits I've planned in the surrounding area - it can be anything from an hour to a 24 hour period and possibly longer.

- For those living in London - I can accept 15 minute slots and upwards...

Some general details:
I am visiting friends' and strangers' homes around the UK as part of the research and development project the space of memory. The R&D is for a future piece of theatre / installation based on the intimate narratives of the home, what a space of memory might be, how (to quote Bachelard) we bring our lares with us...and the rites of passage, moments of grace, where we feel safe and what happens if or when that safety is displaced...

I am working with a composer/sound artist and later 3 performers to realise a blue print for the future production.

Part of the proocess involves documentation of a house, street, its history and on a micro-level the detail of one person and one room in each house - via interview, text, sound, images.

I would like to invite you to be part of this and to 'book a slot in your home' to interview view you and document a room or part of your home...and if possible spend a night in your house or nearby. I am flexible as to the time and extent of the documentation - but it would involve an informal interview / story surgery in one of your rooms which I would record by microphone. I am also interested in recording ambient sound.

Would it be possible to visit you over the next 2 weeks - any time of day /evening - whatever suits you?

Also if you could pass this on to any other potentially interested parties - that would be great.

Please note: no personal material will be used without due consultation and interviews and other documentation collected during the R&D process are for research purposes only - and will be treated as anonymous

- Please let me know if you have any questions about the process + I will brief you before I visit

Hope to visit you soon!

Lisa
xxx

returning from time-out

Hello everyone,
Firstly a big apology for disapperaing without a word for so long, basically I decided to go for a new job about a month ago and it's been a really intense journey and one which I needed to put all my energy and focus into. Just applying for it bought up a lot of questions for me about the credibility and position of the education work I do and produce at the SLG, I pulled out of all the forums and groups I'm involved with to give myself the space to question this work, and to think about where it needs to go and how to move it forward.

So the good news is that I got the job! I'm the new Head of Interactions for Artangel and start at the end of April, I spoke about this mentoring programme in my interview so thanks for you all for being there with me!

Anyway, I'm back now, refulled, confident and excited about the future. Sorry for my absence, I didn't mean to be gone for so long but I'll go back over the blogg and find what I've missed.
Hope everyone is well and look forward to spring time catch up soon
Rachel xxx

apologies

hello all-

sorry i seem to be monpolising the blog tonight, but it's not often i get a chance to get online and upload stuff. i have put some images in previous posts that are stills from unedited video that i am hoping to put together soon. some of it is stuff i have taken myself, other images are of video captured from a tv playing a corupted DVD of the film 'the secret' which i mentioned earlier. I guess they are a compleatly different thing seen here as still images, but any comments would be grand.

It feels a bit strange putting images up here of work that's not finished yet. I don't know how i feel about it. I kind of feel vunerable i guess. I am not sure how well we can relate to work posted on a website. Anyway i would much rather talk about the images than myself.

i have also just found an old piece of writing i did, and thought i would share it as well... here it is:


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if you don’t - fall down.

how will i ever know what is happening to you now, it’s just too late to even try. for all i know you may not even care so just leave me alone. stop trying to get your tired and deflated little rats arse onto my leg and start pounding and writhing in the rough plastic darkness where we last met. i know it hurts but i am always going to let myself go along with it, what else is there to do, life goes on even though i feel as though my hold on it is soft and transparent like the best of all clichés and will i ever look up and see what has been hunting me or will i avoid it forever and hope that it grows on its own into something protective and fruitful, some rosy wedge. do i ever see black?

no you should not stop. the orange glow in the patterned walls is hot and sour like your armpits at the end of the road trip. not long till the cycle starts again - and we all know what that means: contingent rose and nice meals with pam. got to get a hold of myself before we go to see mum or else it will only get worse, or something. get over it, it only happened once and it really wasn’t that interesting. you would know that if you hadn’t walked off without giving us all of your money. give us all of your money. bring it back home, give it to jane she needs it, she is always harping on about how she needs to get fingered by paul so whatever that means- go away.

now- its not too late but still my eyes are sore. i am bugged i cannot speak now, only quietly- but no- that is still to much they will know. they now know. i know that they know. they were never supposed to find out but now they know. its coming undone becoming open, will it unravel. escape - go beyond. do we need to hold it back still or is it ok to sit back and watch it do its thing. be. happy. bee. i can’t seem to hold it down long enough. today it slides off, but then i find it later, unholy, broken, slapped on the knee. knees up, party, lights and houses. open happy, be. my name is paul, my name is jane.

i saw you before in the park with others- they were laughing. then it got dark. ok to just be, is it going to be ok in the dark. on tuesday i went there in the dark. my name is paul, my name is paul. i canot remember paul. in the dark when it happens, because i fell down, my left arm really hurts. i wanted to hear what it was they were saying, but my foot slipped, and i thought they might hear me, in the dark my foot slipped. my name is paul. on tuesday paul goes out with his mum on tuesday i go out with paul. my mum has slipped in the dark, i can hear what they say, but it’s not too loud, sometimes it wakes me, and i feel heavy and cold and wet in my bed. i don’t want to hear them in the dark. my name is jane. my mum, i want my mum, it is dark. my arm hurts, today- tuesday.
then we stop talking.


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and just a few more...

and some more...

and more

Images - stills from video work i wanna start editing

Have any of you...

seen a film called 'what the bleep do we we know' or 'the secret' (you can watch it online www.thesecret.tv) I think they are made by the same people. 'the secret' is a bit of an online explosion- i have been told to watch it by loads of people- manly from the states- people who get into it, really get into it. it's more like a movement, verging on a cult, than just a film.

They are quite possibilly the two worst films ever made, but they are based on interesting concepts and have provoked me into more research and have given me ideas to make new work. The films are dredful and amazing at the same time, they seem to tie in with ideas i have been working with for a long time: our conseption reality, the power of mental imaging processes etc... I am gonna think about how and why i am provoked by these films a bit more and write properly about it later, and hopfully find a way to show you some images. would be interesting to talk to anyone who has seen them or has an opinion.

hope all is well with everyone. Looking forward to the resedensy. I am currently trying to find some equiptment to edit video on during the week. Artsadmin apparently have no video editing facillity at toynbee, so i am begging to borrow equiptment from my fammily at the moment. is anyone else in the same boat?- Biggi i know you are also looking.

a view from my flat

idea for Wednesday night during the residency.

firstly- a huge appology for my lack of involvement on the blog recently. At the moment i have very limited access to the internet, as my laptop died (meaning i have lost a lot of work, photos,music, etc...). I occasionally get a couple of minuets online, so i have been reading stuff on here pretty regularly, but i very rarely get time to write anything down. I am trying to get to grips with my lack of equipment, but in the meantime i have to find online access as and when i can.

secondly- on the wednesday evening during the residency i am going to see a friends film thats playing at the London Gay Film Festival, march 28th, 6.30. check out the link-

http://www.llgff.org.uk/films_details.php?FilmID=106314

It would be great if any of you guys from both years would like to come to, and we can make an evening of it. It is at the BFI on the southbank which is very near to frankos place.

It should be good for a laugh, and it has has scenes from a club in San Fransisco i used to go to called tranny shack - which is a place where performance art, crap drag and gender fucking meet.

Is anyone else up for this... do you wanna come? If you do wanna come you will have to by tickets in advance as i think they will sell out. You can buy the tickects online, through the link above.

Hope everyone is doing well,

much love

Jacob xxx

India and back

Hello peeps,

Just a quick blog to catch up, Franko your plan sounds terrifying. But I shall give it my best none the less. I'm currently packing, i'm going to india on friday for my uncle's wedding, and i'm back on wednesday, yes that does mean india and back in 5 days! I think this is going to screw me up... Below is also a picture of my and the Halo in all its orange beauty:

Lippy 30th March

I'm going to be doing a performance as part of Bird Club at Lippy, Royal Vauxhall Tavern, SE11 on 30th March. It'd be great if folks want to come down. I know this is the last day of the week at Toynbee Hall for this years mentees, and that it finishes at midday, but if any of you are planning on staying overnight, maybe some of us could hook up at the Tavern. As ever, I'd love support! It will be the first time I've performed on stage for a while, and I predict bad drunk behaviour from audience! But maybe I'll wow them with my home-made props and audience participation...!

to all last year mentoring group..

on the 25 to the 30 march the second year will spend 5 days at toynbee studio as a residency.. every evening [ monday to thuesday we will like to get toghether with every body from the first year / or last year group to socialize . i hope you will , it couldbe any one at any one time any of the evening or even every evening it will be great to meet up then at the end of a long day, we will eat ad drinking out i assume and some time at my flat ..
, i hope that katherine , racheall , shab, lucille , nina , steven, roxany, madeiline, miranda, evangelia can make it to any of the evening during this week..
x x franko

THE WEEK AT TOYNBEE OR THE RESIDENCY WEEK. 25 MARCH TO 30 MARCH

Dear everybody first to say that im looking forward to it .
here some structure.
monday and tuesday 9am to 1 pm NO TALKING WITH EACH OTHER IN GENERAL durining this period people will be encouraged to write , make work [ drawing / video/ sound /photograpy /performance , . reserch bring the material you need to do this [ also there is an atlantis just around the corner ]
1pm to 2,15 pm lunch breack
215pm to 615pm discussion/ critique / video watching ]
both evening we will eat toghether [somewhere ] my flat oreating out ] also the people from the first mentoreeng year are welcome to come to the diners,
wenesday 10,30am to 530 pm to meet at the liveartdevelopment agency in harnod circus [ shordich ] we will look at work that may intrest us individualy. then diner toghether every body welcome to the dinning out
thuesday the same as the monday and tuesday but with out me .except for the evening all toghethere eating out or some where .
friday 9am to 12 discussion about the week .

important . bring an object that is important to you , this can be anything . a photo, a book , a present some one given you.. etc etc
this is about it for now ..
franko

a walk in the woods: an undocumented performance

The moblie ran but it was not to be answered. It was the signal to come down stairs where the car would be waiting for me to take me to the woods. I put on my gloves and PVC mac over my basque, girdle, stockings and over-the-knee boots and made my way out. I looked at myself in the mirror in the hall as I passed. My lips, covered in bright red lipstick, outlined in black pencil glared. My eyed were heavily made up. My hair back-combed and stiff with lacquer.
The night was still and the moon full.
The passenger door of the large black car was open. I got in and sat down facing forward. He leant over and pulled a leather hood over my head and face and sealed it on with a leather collar. He zipped the mouth and eyes shut.
When the car stopped and the engine was turned off. He attached a chain leash to the collar and pulled me out onto the tar mac. 'Out bitch,' he said. He yanked on the chain and I had to walk slowly onwards in my high heels. The air was cool. on my upper legs and chest. Then the tarmac gave way to grass. I stumbled for the tenth time. He told me to stop walking. He took my coat off me and told me to squat and to piss. He held his hand under me. The mouth of the hood was unzipped and he put his urine wet fingers in my mouth which I licked. Then he zipped the mouth up again and lead me back to the car. The hood was taken off me now. It was a beautiful cold moonlit night. I almost wept with relief now.
'Get back in the car bitch,' he said.
He drove me home. We neither spoke nor acknowledged each other until he told me to be ready for him again in four weeks time.

thanks also...

Thanks to everyone for Birmingham - it was great to make contact...big thankyou to Franko for the lift...Zaza for your hospitality and lovely soup, Harminda for showing us your studio and the glasses of wine..Good to catch up also with Jon, Tom and Shabz..Would love to do it again. Franko I am with you on the commitment front..Am finding it tough bit am trying to channel that into my work.

Big kiss

Lisa
xx

you don't know

Losing It

Here's info for the evening that I am taking part in next week.
Fresh from my triumph and Transfabulous (!) I will once again be:

'Lucille: Magical Entertainer. Tricks. Sleight-of-hand. Balloon Artistry.'

And I'll be on my skates again, looking for a helping hand. Enjoying folks' looks of concern/ alarm as I free-wheel towards them.

I have a couple of places on the guest list, so if you want to come down, let me know.

And as you'll see, Rachel is also showing work. I don't know what, though; what you showing, Rachel? Look forward to seeing you. And if anyone can offer a weary performer a sofa to kip on in South London, do let me know. Complementary tricks and balloons will be offered in return...