For anyone who is on facebook, this is a link to the Art of Conversation group where the chat continues. Plus pictures and videos from the performance have been uploaded thanks to the lovely Claire Sharples.
Wednesday, 18 May 2011
Monday, 16 May 2011
"Slutwalk"
There is an interesting on 'Slutwalk' by Germaine Greer at telegraph.co.uk. Look it up ! It will be in the 'womens' health' section .
Diane
Saturday, 14 May 2011
What comes out of chatty women...
Delivering my documentary to you as promised!
Always throws up some questions around (mis)representation so I hope you're all happy, particularly with the edit which can be viewed on a charming AoC group page I made just for the job and more loose chat and updates -
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_145723982166973Have loved the skewing of ownership and anonymity throughout -
The audio at the beginning: whose voice, whose words
Blogging under a shared name (or despite people using their own it being a bit of a guess/process of elimination job at first)
& the confessions
So here are some of the photos, more on the group page. Best, C
Hen Do or Hen Don't
I've had this idea about a journal - an academic journal with papers written by all kinds of different people.
About Hen Do's.
I seemed to have reached the point in my life where my friends think it's ok to ask me to shell out £300 on a weekend away and a further £250 on another weekend away (and at least one day off work) later in the same year. They cleverly disguise these 'weekends away' as a "Hen Do" and a "Wedding".
Don't get me wrong - I love a good night out, but I do wonder what these Hen Do's really say about modern, liberated, educated women about to embark on an equal(?) partnership for the rest of their years.
And on said Hen Do, it's ok to carry around all manner of willy paraphernalia ... when did you last see a stag do with a cunt straw, or a cunt balloon ... no, thought not.
So anyway, this is a call for papers - 2,000 word limit, to be submitted by the 14th July 2011 to me as a word doc; kirstsil@yahoo.com. I'll make a blog. I'll invite others to submit. If it ever goes anywhere I'll set up a co-operative so we all gain. Oh and I'm the editor.
Please spread the word far and wide. Papers can be fun, serious, academic, positive, negative, by men or by women.
Kirstin x
About Hen Do's.
I seemed to have reached the point in my life where my friends think it's ok to ask me to shell out £300 on a weekend away and a further £250 on another weekend away (and at least one day off work) later in the same year. They cleverly disguise these 'weekends away' as a "Hen Do" and a "Wedding".
Don't get me wrong - I love a good night out, but I do wonder what these Hen Do's really say about modern, liberated, educated women about to embark on an equal(?) partnership for the rest of their years.
And on said Hen Do, it's ok to carry around all manner of willy paraphernalia ... when did you last see a stag do with a cunt straw, or a cunt balloon ... no, thought not.
So anyway, this is a call for papers - 2,000 word limit, to be submitted by the 14th July 2011 to me as a word doc; kirstsil@yahoo.com. I'll make a blog. I'll invite others to submit. If it ever goes anywhere I'll set up a co-operative so we all gain. Oh and I'm the editor.
Please spread the word far and wide. Papers can be fun, serious, academic, positive, negative, by men or by women.
Kirstin x
Thursday, 12 May 2011
sweet dreams
Just woken up from a dream that i think is trying to tell me something:
I realised i needed sharp knives for the performance and knocked on the door where 2 Pigeons were up to something!They showed me where boxes of them were laid out and asked if i could self-serve.I then started a very satisfying carving of polystyrene but was aware of the fact that certain people were missing that were vital if everything was going to be ok.
Then I lost my sight and with totally blurred vision kept walking the wrong way into closed exits trying to find the performance space.
I walked in and saw my son and his friend watching me perform.Me and the other performer were muppets though you could only see our heads. I am saying in a Miss Piggy voice "We're doing this all wrong" I am wondering if my son will hear himself talked about amongst the taped stories.
Anyone would think I was anxious about tonight's Happening!!
I realised i needed sharp knives for the performance and knocked on the door where 2 Pigeons were up to something!They showed me where boxes of them were laid out and asked if i could self-serve.I then started a very satisfying carving of polystyrene but was aware of the fact that certain people were missing that were vital if everything was going to be ok.
Then I lost my sight and with totally blurred vision kept walking the wrong way into closed exits trying to find the performance space.
I walked in and saw my son and his friend watching me perform.Me and the other performer were muppets though you could only see our heads. I am saying in a Miss Piggy voice "We're doing this all wrong" I am wondering if my son will hear himself talked about amongst the taped stories.
Anyone would think I was anxious about tonight's Happening!!
Sunday, 8 May 2011
One for the team
Leaping in with a bit of a better late than never effort and no idea what to say...
Had a gander at other contributions as they've appeared and they are an interesting counter slant to the collaborative conversational bit that we do of a Thursday, possibly more insightful than talk from my point of view - is that generally understood? - not sure whether it's just concentration, the ability for people to shape and deliver their contributions as independent statements or having both the face to face and blogging in tandem.
As I seem to have opted out out of the performance I was hoping you might all be happy for me to get snap happy and document the night (with editing rights to the pics of course).
Look forward to Thursday - see you all then. Best,
Claire
Had a gander at other contributions as they've appeared and they are an interesting counter slant to the collaborative conversational bit that we do of a Thursday, possibly more insightful than talk from my point of view - is that generally understood? - not sure whether it's just concentration, the ability for people to shape and deliver their contributions as independent statements or having both the face to face and blogging in tandem.
As I seem to have opted out out of the performance I was hoping you might all be happy for me to get snap happy and document the night (with editing rights to the pics of course).
Look forward to Thursday - see you all then. Best,
Claire
Thursday, 5 May 2011
Maybe a bit too provocative?
I just thought I'd post quickly even though we're meeting in a few hours time :)
I've printed off a few choice Germaine quotes for the shrine (until my printer ink ran out) and I will bring them in along with a few other bits i've collected - fake flowers, candles etc. I like the idea of there being fruit and flowers in there as well - maybe some of the fruit from the interval?
I've also commissioned something a bit fancy that I thought I'd run by you all just in case it seems, well, a bit blasphemous to be honest!
My fella is a dab hand with photoshop so I asked him if he could take a photo of Germaine and make her into a Virgin Mary/Jesus, something very holy with lots of light, iconographic image. I thought it would be a nice big colourful centrepiece to all the other bits we will collect. I also want to make a big frame around it (i'm thinking paper mache and spray painted gold!). Do you think this will be stepping on any toes? It will be a little provocative, enhanced by it being in a loo, of course.
I'm also very excited to try out some non-verbal communication gestures (some subtle, some not-so) throughout whatever conversations will be happening in the main space. Perhaps if the feeling is very relaxed and conversational it will add a strange, almost jarring performative element to the proceedings. I would enjoy that :)
See you all very soon!
Sarah.
I've printed off a few choice Germaine quotes for the shrine (until my printer ink ran out) and I will bring them in along with a few other bits i've collected - fake flowers, candles etc. I like the idea of there being fruit and flowers in there as well - maybe some of the fruit from the interval?
I've also commissioned something a bit fancy that I thought I'd run by you all just in case it seems, well, a bit blasphemous to be honest!
My fella is a dab hand with photoshop so I asked him if he could take a photo of Germaine and make her into a Virgin Mary/Jesus, something very holy with lots of light, iconographic image. I thought it would be a nice big colourful centrepiece to all the other bits we will collect. I also want to make a big frame around it (i'm thinking paper mache and spray painted gold!). Do you think this will be stepping on any toes? It will be a little provocative, enhanced by it being in a loo, of course.
I'm also very excited to try out some non-verbal communication gestures (some subtle, some not-so) throughout whatever conversations will be happening in the main space. Perhaps if the feeling is very relaxed and conversational it will add a strange, almost jarring performative element to the proceedings. I would enjoy that :)
See you all very soon!
Sarah.
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