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Louise Orwin is an artist-researcher living and working in East London. Her work is informed by and pre-supposes the cultural limitations imposed upon her as a body loaded with a female countenance. She creates work which conveys a preoccupation with this female body and its conception and reception within popular culture. Her ever-evolving practice seeks to fuse the horrifyingly intimate with the excruciatingly public, often engaging its audiences in demanding, exciting and risk-taking positions: always asking not only what the audience may take from the performance, but what the performance may take from its audiences. Her work spans the live and the recorded with incarnations in performance, video and photography. Mixing the highly theatrical with the perfectly mundane, her artwork challenges what we may conceive of as entertaining in a fast-moving, and media saturated world.
Some buzzwords for her: barbie dreamhouse mystic masochism awkward misunderstanding epic failure coffee-table psychology mad tracey passive gunge-tank hi-jinks fridge top philosophy irreverent mythology S&M hellokittykitschchic bjork
Find her main website at: www.louiseorwin.com
Contact her at: louiseorwin@hotmail.com
ARTWORK:
Fish-Fingered by Ann Liv Young
Definitely still formulating my ideas after Ann Liv Young’s Mermaid Show in Birmingham last night. Still feel too close to feel in any way objective about the experience.
This is the second time I’ve watched this interview/video- brings something new after the experience last night.
http://www.revelinnewyork.com/videos/ann-liv-young
More to come.
(Source: thedailywhat, via petewentz-)
THE CHOSEN ONES…
WHAT DID YOU LEAVE BEHIND IN THE BARBIE DREAMHOUSE??
(all photos from barbie’s disposable camera from inXclusion festival, Feb 2012
get excited about…
the long-awaited inXclusion pictures from Barbie’s disposable camera.. It’s been a long time coming but it’ll be worth it. Going up tomorrow.
Also- in other news I will finally be blogging about GLASGOW BUZZCUT- which deserves a pleasant word or ten.
programme notes and audiences
putting together some programme notes for Humiliation Piece ahead of the show in Glasgow. Making me think about lots of important things like: audience expectations, being nice to audiences, making audience members feel safe, and a whole lot about making your audience your contractual partner in crime for the evening….
‘this is just as much about me as it is about you… but its mostly about you’
Really hoping this new angle goes down well in the show on Friday- such a good slot too: Friday night at 8.15pm. We all know what this means: BOOZE. This can surely only make the show better.
Thinking lots about the ‘dual reactions’ of audience members that was discussed a lot at the scratch in Brighton- really trying to bring this out more in this show, have worked on a new ending (or coda as i like to say when i’m feeling really pretentious).
excited: cant wait to see how it all goes down!
It’s just the feeling when you start thinking about your ancestors and DNA that the grounds open below you and you can feel your mother and her mother, and her mother, and her mother, and her mother 30,000 years back. So suddenly you’re this kinda tunnel, or trunk of DNA … All these ghosts come up so it ended up begin a Halloween song and quite gothic in a way … It’s like being part of this everlasting necklace when you’re just a bead on a chain and you sort of want to belong and be a part of it and it’s just like a miracle.
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I LOVE THIS. Bjork talking about her idea behind the song ‘Hollow’… she is a madgeniuscreativeprolificpioneeringmiracle of a woman. She should be an inspiration to us all.
Have a peep at this article where the music director-cum-scientist describes the concept behind the video:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/03/01/147756106/bjork-explores-the-world-within
Gearing up for a corker of a scratch in Brighton this Weds- if anyone’s in Brighton and is up for some fun and games head down to The Basement to catch the next installment of Humiliation Piece…
Come if you dare. Barbie will be OCCUPYING for 9hrs at inXclusion Festival, Leeds 25th-26th
2012: Beginnings…
So after a lazy start to the year (read: quietly planning and masterminding in my own way, mostly in bed), 2012 has finally BEGUN.
Here is where you can see me over the next couple of months:
Feb 18th: The Hunt - ?
- I will be doing a little sumthin’ sumthin’ (installation-y) for this exciting event… Mum’s the word for now though…
http://www.richmix.org.uk/whats-on/event/snapshots-the-hunt-2012/
Feb 24th: InXclusion Festival (Leeds) - ‘Barbie: For your eyes only…’
-In this exciting 24hr LiveArt event, I will be performing the latest development in my Barbie series (more info to come soon)
March 7th: Scratch! at The Basement (Brighton) - ‘Humiliation Piece’
- scratching this little number again, in time for….
http://www.thebasement.uk.com/
March 15th: Buzzcut Festival (Glasgow) - ‘Humiliation Piece’
- Cant wait to do this piece at such an exciting new festival
http://glasgowbuzzcut.wordpress.com/
Pleased as punch.
(and if that’s not enough…see below for a taster of what’s to come for 2012 beyond these dates…)
Long overdue trailer for I’ll be your Barbie if...
NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY
