The provocations

Your homework, women of the AoC, should you choose to accept it, is to consider an artistic conversational-based response to the following provocations.

This means mulling over the following and then when we next meet up we'll discuss in groups what we think and how to respond performatively. Makes sense?

For example, Kaz talks in an earlier blog about wanting to become one of those living statues you see in tourist-y areas. So, one performative response might be to transcribe and then record a discussion between 2 people on one of the topics, then, come performance time, have two people dress up and perform as living statues with a recording of the conversation being played out of speakers behind the performers.

You can also have a think of your own provocations, and don't forget to keep eavesdropping on the bus!

Title: “The Dirtiest F Word”
Abstract: Young women today don't recognise themselves as feminists. Those we have spoken to recently have suggested a new word would be more appropriate as their views of feminism centre around ideas of the eighties radical feminist and the idea that men are obsolete. If young girls disagree and distance themselves from feminism, are we fighting a losing battle? How do we make feminism relevant to younger women? Should we be doing more to rehabilitate the term "feminism"?

Title: “Harmless Banter - Richard Keys ‘smashes’ it"
Abstract: With regard to the ‘off air’ tv clip where Keys is asking Jamie Redknapp if he 'smashed it' and is really trying hard to engage him in some sexist banter, what does ‘smash it’ even mean? Should we be concerned about the inane (and some might say insane) behaviour and language used by Keys and his colleague Andy Gray, or does the whole episode merely shine further light on how out of step football culture is from the rest of the us?

Title: "Loose Women - not any women I know"
Abstract: Award winning telly programme Loose Women consists of a panel of privileged, reactionary harridans, who say nothing to me about my life, and in fact, set the women's cause back 50 years. Discuss.

Title: "It's My Pejorative"
Abstract: A large number of insults seem to derive from words for female genitalia, including 'cunt'. Does this word (and others) still have the same power to disgust that it has held historically? Should we as women be looking to re-appropriate these words in the same way that "queer" has been re-appropriated? Are we overly sensitive to language and should we learn to let words bother us less?

Don't forget the conversation can always start before the next session, either on this blog or at twitter.

Amanda @ Pigeon Theatre