I am an artist and mother of two (a daughter aged 4 and a son aged 1). I make live art performances with my partner Pete Phillips as Search Party. Since 2005 we have made duo performances for theatres and public spaces, and have performed in venues and festivals in the UK and Internationally, including Culturegest (Lisbon, Portugal), The National Review of Live Art (Glasgow, UK), ANTIfestival (Kuopio, Finland), Plateux (Frankfurt, Germany), Nuit Blanche (Amiens, France), PAD (Mainz, Germany), InTacto (Vitoria de Gadiz, Spain), ArtBatFest (Almaty, Kazakstan) and Junction Arts Festival (Launceston, Australia). I’m interested in the family as site for performance practice. www.searchpartyperformance.org.uk
Website: http://www.searchpartyperformance.org.ukShe won’t remember any of this. It was a bright and breezy April morning. Afternoon. Morning or Afternoon. And the car seat won’t fit in the back. Only the front. Which isn’t recommended. And we drive very slowly. He checks … Continued
Shades of pink fill the advertising space. The TV ads have started, the supermarket have already ‘politely’ reminded us (for the past month) not to FORGET. The high street chains tell us to ‘love your mum’ and ‘give your mum … Continued
To my children There isn’t anything for you. There won’t be anything for you. There isn’t a last will and testament; there isn’t a handshake, a verbal understanding, an unwritten, unspoken acknowledgement. There’s nothing for you, nothing left, nothing preserved. … Continued
I read recently that newborn killer whales do not sleep for a whole month after birth. Not even for a second. Therefore, of course, neither do their mothers. I like to think that there are far too many extraordinary things … Continued
I’ma party, I’m gon’ dance, put your hands up on my body. On my body, on my body, put your hands up on my body. I’ma party, I’m gon’ dance put your hands up on my body. On my … Continued