'This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh...'
'In their untrembling sleep
In Spite of the Skin was performed by Hannah Liddy, Kade Greenland, Gabriel Partington and Nikki Shiels and directed by Brigid Jackson in September 2007
'Bed becomes a forum in which struggles in a relationship are defused or intensified. Sex isn't about performance; it's about a certain kind of communication founded on trust and exposure and vulnerability that can't be expressed any other way.' (Nan Goldin, The ballard of sexual dependency.)
The first bed I ever shared with him was the single bed I had when I was a kid. He was squashed against the wall with his arm around my waist to stop me for falling out. I needed to go to the toilet but was too scared to leave the bed in case I couldn't fit back in. so I lay awake all night listening to him sleeping. I think I wt the bed.
A black man once asked me if I was and angel because I had the whitest skin he has ever seen, he said it as though he felt sorry for me.
Peep is a series of video works filmed inside a peep show where I learnt that my skin is reflective.
'Our degradation was entertainment; sadism was sexy; masochism was talent.' (June Havoc, marathon 33)
From August 29th, 1930 to April 1st, 1931 in a ballroom in in Chicago, Mike Ritof and Edith Boudreaux danced non-stop for 5,154 hours and 48 minutes. (Guinness World Records)
The Palace of Wasted Footsteps was performed by Brigid Jackson and John Brenard at Victoria University in November 2004.
