live art, performance, induced lactation, puppets, prosthetics, cross-species suckling, people dressed as animals, adult nursing, kids workshops, super 8, masks, dolls, pinhole photography, pornography, botched taxidermy, boot sales, myths, fairytales, singlish, erotica, eating without using my hands, sploshing, hiking, apple bobbing, foraging and scrumping, swimming in mountain lakes, forests, food, organic farming, nursing bras, feral cats
'Cimon and Pero', circa 1500-1550 by Hans Sebald Beham
anonymous pony play postcard, circa 1930's (from Katherine Gates' Deviant Desires)
'donkey play' devon 2007, camera by richard andersen
Music
winter circus, stephen's New Noise comps, ethan's burlesque gypsy mixes, klezmer, accordian, louise bourgeois lullabies, birds, piano, beautiful screaming, junk opera, fairgound tunes, 4-track recordings, occasional sound art and automata
Movies
Peau d'Âne, Paris Texas, Black Moon, Last Tango in Paris, Svankmajer's Alice, Valerie's Week of Wonders, The Tit and the Moon, Les Yeux Sans Visage, Blue Velvet, Les Jours où je n'existe pas, Claire Leona Apps' Gweipo, La Belle et La Bête, The Piano Teacher, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover, Klute, Rushmore, Black Cat White Cat, The Labrynth, Betty Blue, The Shining, werewolf and vampire films
Television
She-wolf of London, Black Books, Queer as Folk, Twin Peaks, The Kingdom
Books
Stephen Vickery - The Sun is Often Out, Fiona Giles - Fresh Milk: The Secret Life of Breasts, Urnica Zürn - The Man of Jasmine, Pauline Réage - Story of O, George Bataille - Story of the Eye, Marina Warner - From the Beast to the Blonde, Steve Baker - The Postmodern Animal, Medlar Lucan & Durian Gray - Decadent Cookbook, Antonella Gambotto - The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide, Sophie Jabes - Alice, la Saucisse, Sharman Apt Russell - Hunger: An Unnatural History, Marie Darrieussecq, Magaret Atwood, Jack Sargeant, Susan Sontag, Haruki Murakami, Angela Carter, Helen Dunmore, Wei Hui - Shanghai Baby, Nabakov - Lolita, Goscinny-Sempe - Le Petit Nicholas, books from Offstage
Heroes
2 gyrlz performative arts, dog eared films, the soil association, the singapore zoo, kids at the little angel marionette theatre, girls at the preda centre, ethan the literary acupuncturist, offstage bookshop, the montplaisir menagerie, gina the donkey
'she wants it, she wants it not' les pyrénées 2007, camera by blaise merino
Dartington College of Arts
Totnes, United Kingdom
Graduated: 2007
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Visual Performance
2006 to 2007
University of the Arts London
London, United Kingdom
Graduated: 2004
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Photography (first class)
2001 to 2004
University of the Arts London
London, United Kingdom
Graduated: 2001
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Other
Major: Art Foundation - lens based media (distinction)
2000 to 2001
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'Exquisite Fall' 5x4 pinhole Polaroid, Kent 2006, camera by Tom Hunter
'daddy's chair (9 minute self-portrait in 3 roles)' pinhole photograph, london 2002
'bestilalia (I never imagined life without you)' installation detail, devon 2007
'L'abreuvoir I (fille)' performance for video, les pyrénées 2008
'like a pig in shit' performance for video, les pyrénées 2006/7
'so she ate it all up' performance for video, les pyrénées 2006/7
'tasting flesh' performance for video, les pyrénées 2006/7
'gas towers' pinhole photograph, london 2003
'one night stand' super8 film, london 2003
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Sept/Oct 2009, tbc.
1 week residency, 1 week performance exhibition
with Anna Maria Pinaka and Deniz Unal
in St Mary's Old Church, Stoke Newington, London
16 - 19 April 2010
(untitled) performance, tbc Transit Station Copenhagen at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art
29 April - 16 May 2009
'Long Live Romance'
Franko B, workshop (participant)
Academia di Belle Arti di Macerata, Marche, Italy
1 May 2009 video installation
'De Ferme en Ferme'
La Borde, organic sheep cheese farm, Les Pyrenees
La Nourrice (come drink from me my darling) 2009, camera by Richard Andersen
12 April 2009
'La Nourrice' performance Visions of Excess
co-curated by Ron Athey and Lee Adams, SPILL Festival, London
photos by Richard Andersen: http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/luximages/VisionsOfExcess#slideshow
review by Alex Eisenberg: http://spilloverspill.blogspot.com/2009/05/becoming-child-or-lamb-by-alex.htm
7 November 2008
'La Nourrice (come drink from me my darling)' one-to-one performance
'Like a pig in shit' and 'She wants it, she wants it not' video screenings, ACT ART 06
at The Arches, London
11-12 July 2008
bestilalia (i never imagined life without you) performance installation as part of 'The Graduates' festival at
Battersea Arts Centre London
'bestilalia' 2008, camera by claire leona apps
3 April and 5 April 2008
'bestiphagia (come eat from me my love)' and 'la nourrice (come drink from me my darling)' performances alongside Ron Athey
curated by
2 Gyrlz Performative Arts
at Hippodrome in Portland Oregon and by John G. Boehme as part of
Viscera II
at
Open Space
vancouver island, canada
'bestiphagia (come eat from me my love)' 2008, camera by blaise merino
performer in
Quiver
by Victorine Müller and Kirsten Reese, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Bonjour Sam, j'espère que tu vas bien... Je t'écris de ma nouvelle maison, j'ai quitté Lyon avec soulagement... Je commence une nouvelle vie, je dors maintenant sur la mousse. bises.
hi samantha!!! how are you? I am happy to see you also here. have you seen the blog of Long Love Romance? I uploaded something new (not photos yet). I hope you are well. kiss L
PRAYER FROM A LONELY CHILD (life will be the death of me) k (banks)dallesandro sorta music 2009 BMI
I can't recall it being easy Living on your own Nobody to protect you No one to call your own And all I find that age brings Is weariness and pain Finding what you had before Will never be the same
Dreams are the invaders The shoot straight to the soul Until you try to reach for one And like a man they go Life will be the death of me I find it rough and hard Me the unlucky poker player Waiting for that winning card
Then I found a gentle stranger Drifting through the sea I'd been waiting for so long Waiting for his company I threw away the pain and I pushed aside my pride I had waited for so long For someone by my side
// This is a prayer from a lonely child Lost in a world that is so big and wild You were the cool breeze of the evening The warmth of every summer day Let me hold you tight one last time Then I'll watch you fly away
I suppose I'm alittle selfish That's what people say I only wish that I could somehow Make you say you'd stay Your head is in the city And your heart is way back home So hold me tight one last time Then leave me all alone
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