Women's Writing for Performance

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Artists' Forum

with Bobby Baker, Marisa Carnesky, Vayu Naidu and Leslie Hill & Helen Paris (of Curious)

This event took place on Saturday 11 November 2006 at the Theatre Museum, Covent Garden, London

About the Forum

Audience

The event was a final celebration of a three year, AHRC funded, research project exploring the process and practice of women's writing for performance. Over seventy artists, students and scholars attended the forum, hearing contributions from internationally renowned performance artists Bobby Baker, Marisa Carnesky, Leslie Hill and Helen Paris (of the theatre company, Curious) and storyteller Vayu Naidu, all of whom have held workshops at Lancaster as part of the project and talked about the process and practice of their performance work. The forum was chaired by Elaine Aston and Gerry Harris of Lancaster University. During the event Bobby Baker presented a short performance centred on her Meringue Ladies.

Artists' Biographies

Leslie Hill and Helen Paris

the panel

Bobby Baker is a performance artist based in London. During the last three decades she has produced an extensive repertoire of work principally concerned with an exploration of aspects of daily life and human behaviour. She has worked in a variety of media including food, site-specific installation, radio, TV and drawing. Major works include: "An Edible Family in a Mobile Home" 1976, "Packed Lunch" 1979, "Drawing on a Mother's Experience" 1989, "The Daily Life Series" 1991-2001 - five shows including "Kitchen Show" 1991 and "Box Story"2001. Her work has been shown widely in the UK and abroad.

Marisa Carnesky is influenced by illusion, folklore, burlesque and inspired by her own Eastern European heritage, live performers in the fairground, and particularly the tradition of the tattooed lady. She has been making inter-disciplinary performance work for over a decade. Trained as a dancer, visual artist, and performance artist, her shows combine modern performance with the spectacular style of the cabaret and the freakshow. Marisa's recent work includes: Carnesky's Ghost Train and Jewess Tattooess.

Leslie Hill and Helen Paris are London-based artists working in performance, video and digital arts, known for their edgy, humorous interrogations of contemporary culture and politics, work which has been called ‘as smart as it is seductive'. Their company 'curious' was formed in 1996.

Vayu Naidu is a storyteller and artistic director of the Vayu Naidu Company, a company dedicated to new writing for theatre and performance storytelling of the diaspora. She is Lecturer in drama at the University of Kent, Canterbury. She performs solo and conducts process and performance workshops on storytelling.

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		EVENT ARCHIVES Artists' Forum with Bobby Baker, Marisa Carnesky, Vayu Naidu and Leslie Hill & Helen Paris (of Curious) This event took place on Saturday 11 November 2006 at the Theatre Museum, Covent Garden, London
	About the Forum	The event was a final celebration of a three year, AHRC funded, research project exploring the process and practice of women's writing for performance. Over seventy artists, students and scholars attended the forum, hearing contributions from internationally renowned performance artists Bobby Baker, Marisa Carnesky, Leslie Hill and Helen Paris (of the theatre company, Curious) and storyteller Vayu Naidu, all of whom have held workshops at Lancaster as part of the project and talked about the process and practice of their performance work. The forum was chaired by Elaine Aston and Gerry Harris of Lancaster University. During the event Bobby Baker presented a short performance centred on her Meringue Ladies.
	Artists' Biographies	Bobby Baker is a performance artist based in London. During the last three decades she has produced an extensive repertoire of work principally concerned with an exploration of aspects of daily life and human behaviour. She has worked in a variety of media including food, site-specific installation, radio, TV and drawing. Major works include: "An Edible Family in a Mobile Home" 1976, "Packed Lunch" 1979, "Drawing on a Mother's Experience" 1989, "The Daily Life Series" 1991-2001 - five shows including "Kitchen Show" 1991 and "Box Story"2001. Her work has been shown widely in the UK and abroad. Marisa Carnesky is influenced by illusion, folklore, burlesque and inspired by her own Eastern European heritage, live performers in the fairground, and particularly the tradition of the tattooed lady. She has been making inter-disciplinary performance work for over a decade. Trained as a dancer, visual artist, and performance artist, her shows combine modern performance with the spectacular style of the cabaret and the freakshow. Marisa's recent work includes: Carnesky's Ghost Train and Jewess Tattooess. Leslie Hill and Helen Paris are London-based artists working in performance, video and digital arts, known for their edgy, humorous interrogations of contemporary culture and politics, work which has been called ‘as smart as it is seductive'. Their company 'curious' was formed in 1996. Vayu Naidu is a storyteller and artistic director of the Vayu Naidu Company, a company dedicated to new writing for theatre and performance storytelling of the diaspora. She is Lecturer in drama at the University of Kent, Canterbury. She performs solo and conducts process and performance workshops on storytelling.


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