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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:
HUMILIATION PIECE
Humiliation Piece
‘Louise wants to share everything with you, in this, her last desperate attempt to keep you, her audience captivated. Watch her squirm and struggle through a dastardly game of Truth or Dare controlled and judged by you: she’s willing to go that extra mile to keep that smile on your face, but if she fails, she knows punishment lies in your hands. A one-woman crusade to the ultimate exhilarating performance, think tell-all game of Truth or Dare meets X-Factor judgement-day meets Fun House gunge-tank: what does entertainment mean to you?’
have a look at the teaser trailer here: http://vimeo.com/33223720
First scratch performed at:
PILOT NIGHT 9th November 2011
//PAST PERFORMANCES//
NOVEMBER 9TH (2011): PILOT NIGHT, (Birmingham)
MARCH 7TH (2012): SCRATCH! at The Basement (Brighton)
MARCH 15TH (2012): BUZZCUT FESTIVAL (Glasgow)
AUGUST 4TH (2012): SUMMERHALL BUZZCUT (EDINBURGH)
NOVEMBER 19TH (2012): FLINT MICROFEST (Wiltshire)
MARCH 1ST (2013): SUPPER CLUB, The Basement (Brighton)
UPCOMING DATES:
MARCH 21ST: InXtricable (Leeds)
APRIL 13TH: POOLSIDE POSTEROUS (Liverpool)
NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY
