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Ah, Christ...Guardian writer finds a new pet ~

Catherine Hoffmann: The performance artist fighting class shame with drop scones and dead rats

In Written on the Body, the performance artist got audience members to write an erotic memory out, in pen, on the relevant part of her body. In The Guilt and Shame Hotline, she collected people’s stories of woe, drew them on a paper bag and popped the bags on their heads. And in her new show, Free Lunch With the Stench Wench, she strips down half naked, nurses a dead rat, cooks some drop scones, smothers herself in hot chocolate and acts out her memories of growing up, in her words, “as one of the feral underclass in the 70s and 80s”.
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https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...erine-hoffmann-performance-artist-class-shame
 
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Ah, Christ...Guardian writer finds a new pet ~


https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...erine-hoffmann-performance-artist-class-shame
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Wow that venue she's performing at puts on some weird stuff.

ROSANA CADE

MY BIG SISTER TAUGHT ME THIS LAP DANCE

SAT 11 JUN

This event is part of:

BEYOND BLOODLINES


Produced By The Cockpit As Part Of BEYOND BLOODLINES


Presented by Rosana Cade



MY BIG SISTER TAUGHT ME THIS LAP DANCE

Saturday 11th June

Individual performances from 3pm

This performance is strictly 18+.

There will be 18 performances for one person at a time between 3pm - 6pm. If you would like to be an audience member for this, then please complete a reservation form here.
When it has been processed we will e-mail you with further information (Allow 24 hours for this). This performance is included in the day and weekend tickets.

I'm a queer woman with a hairy body.
She used to lap dance in a wig and call herself Rosanna.
She was my idol. She is big my sister.

This intimate one-on-one performance is an exploration of lap dancing, feminism and familial relationships.

In a small enclosed space you experience performance artist Rosana Cade take on her older sister Amy's persona and perform the lap dance she taught her.
Through the performance Rosana attempts to understand her sister's experience and perspective, as well as the ways in which her identity has affected her own relationship with femininity.

It was first created in September 2012 for Arches Live where it received a 5* review in the Herald. It has since toured to Month of Performance Art – Berlin, Circuit in Leicester, Steakhouse Live in London, and Calm Down Dear at Camden People’s Theatre. This is part of a longer collaboration with between Amy and Rosana Cade that resulted in the performance, Sister, which toured across the UK in 2015.

***** “Brave, clever, provocative – by an artist to cherish.” Mary Brennan, The Herald, 2nd Oct 2012

“Intense, courageous and disarming.” Andrew and Caitlin Webb-Ellis, Month of Performance Art- Berlin
 
"Just shoot me." SteveJ, the Caf.
 
I'm guessing 'yes', chief. Although I could always claim it was ironic arousal.
 
SteveJ said:
I'm guessing 'yes', chief. Although I could always claim it was ironic arousal.
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:lol:That'll be my defence, although 'I'm a queer woman with a hairy body' does not scream titillation.
 
Funnily enough, that chat-up line's never worked for me.
 
:lol:*laments his lack of hirsutism*
 
Tbh, it's not so much the acts mentioned above that bother me - it's the patronisation in articles like that. You'd think people like Ms Hoffman, Caitlin Moran et al escaped from being sacrificed by poo-lobbing Neanderthal savages, the way their working class upbringings are written about in the Guardian.
 
SteveJ said:
Tbh, it's not so much the acts mentioned above that bother me - it's the patronisation in articles like that. You'd think people like Ms Hoffman, Caitlin Moran et al escaped from being sacrificed by poo-lobbing Neanderthal savages, the way their working class upbringings are written about in the Guardian.
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I guess she's using an irony above most people's intelligence levels (in her head), but there does seem to be a fine line between playing on her 'feral childhood', which she managed to 'escape' and critiquing it, condemning the 'demonisation of the poor'. Not sure about the linkage to hirsute, lesbian lap-dancing with incestuous overtones, but then I suppose I am not that 'edgy'.
 
It's probably wrong of me, but I have this vision of baited breath over a latté while the Tales of Plebian Horror are related.

"And you didn't even have an Aga? Oh God..."
 
SteveJ said:
It's probably wrong of me, but I have this vision of baited breath over a latté while the Tales of Plebian Horror are related.

"And you didn't even have an Aga? Oh God..."
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It sounds exactly right. I remember one fund manager moaning to me that during the credit crunch, his firm stopped getting freshly cut flowers in the office lobby every day, to save a few quid. All in it together.
 
Oh f*ckin' hell... :lol::lol:
 
Guardian said:
Taylor Swift condemns Kim Kardashian's release of Kanye West phone call
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I have been worrying about this since 2009. I'm glad some of its been clarified now. I can stop playing Taylor's and Kanye's thoughts through my head and start concentrating on my kids.
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OMG - I forgot to have kids! Damn you, Kanye!
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Just like Bush and Blair before the second Iraq war we will probably never know the full details of the conversation that took place and what was actually going on in their heads. History will tell its own story.
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Jippy said:
The quotes in this story made me laugh- they sound like they belong in the Man Utd Facebook thread.

They've had to shut that massive glass mountain bridge in China for urgent repairs and people are pissed.



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...loses-for-maintenance-two-weeks-after-opening
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Well it's not for repairs...
They expected 8000 people a day but are getting ten times that so it's to get improved roads, car parking, access and egress from the bridge and facilities such as toilets etc
 
sun_tzu said:
Well it's not for repairs...
They expected 8000 people a day but are getting ten times that so it's to get improved roads, car parking, access and egress from the bridge and facilities such as toilets etc
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The picture makes it look a horrific tourist experience. They're packed in like sardines and probably see feck all.
 
Jippy said:
The picture makes it look a horrific tourist experience. They're packed in like sardines and probably see feck all.
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This can apply to pretty much any tourist hotspot in China during holidays. I've learned the hard way to never travel here during peak season.
 
Bizarre news story of the day here

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...r-five-day-old-baby-punched-supermarket-Tesco

Man arrested after five-day-old baby 'punched in supermarket'

Duckers was showing her new daughter off to friends and neighbours in the shop at the time.

It is then alleged that a man came over and punched the baby, leaving a “very big fist mark” on her forehead, according to Duckers.

The “mortified” parents called security. A witness said the man apologised and said he thought the baby was a doll.
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"Sorry love, thought it was a doll."

Jesus Christ Powell.
 
Jippy said:
Bizarre story. Who the feck walks round punching other people's dolls?
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So many levels of bizarre:

As you say, who punches other peoples dolls, who carries dolls around in public over the age of 10? It's absolutely outstanding, truly tremendous levels of baffling.

It's not every day you go to tesco and end up arrested for punching a baby.
 
Adzzz said:
So many levels of bizarre:

As you say, who punches other peoples dolls, who carries dolls around in public over the age of 10? It's absolutely outstanding, truly tremendous levels of baffling.

It's not every day you go to tesco and end up arrested for punching a baby.
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Speak for yourself mate.
 
Has the begging bowl banner link at the bottom of the page removed the close function? Every time I click the 'X' on the banner the link opens, whereas before it would close. Have they become this desperate in their quest to fund Jonathan Jones' latest Kanye Kardashian musings?

Just die already, it's sad to watch.
 
The comments beneath this article are both ignorant in general and regarding the history of Franklin's men & their relations with the Inuit; not to mention the ire - often racist in tone - directed against anyone who took Inuit testimony seriously during the Victorian era.

From the article:

Inuit traditional knowledge was critical to the discovery of both ships, she pointed out, offering the Canadian government a powerful demonstration of what can be achieved when Inuit voices are included in the process.

In contrast, the tragic fate of the 129 men on the Franklin expedition hints at the high cost of marginalising those who best know the area and its history.

“If Inuit had been consulted 200 years ago and asked for their traditional knowledge – this is our backyard – those two wrecks would have been found, lives would have been saved. I’m confident of that,” she said. “But they believed their civilization was superior and that was their undoing.”
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Inuit argue for say as Canada and Britain decide fate of HMS Terror wreck ~
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/16/inuit-canada-britain-shipwreck-hms-terror-nunavut

Scapegoating the Inuit: cannibalism and Sir John Franklin's lost expedition ~
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble...ism_and_Sir_John_Franklin.27s_lost_expedition
 
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The comments beneath this article are both ignorant in general and regarding the history of Franklin's men & their relations with the Inuit; not to mention the ire - often racist in tone - directed against anyone who took Inuit testimony seriously during the Victorian era.

From the article:


Inuit argue for say as Canada and Britain decide fate of HMS Terror wreck ~
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/16/inuit-canada-britain-shipwreck-hms-terror-nunavut
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That ship name reminds me of:
 
Revenge of the Tabloids
Rocked by the phone-hacking scandal and haemorrhaging readers, the rightwing tabloids seemed to be yesterday’s news. But now, in Theresa May’s Brexit Britain, they look more powerful than ever

Guardian said:
Consider some headlines from the Express this autumn: “Migrant Influx Is Threatening To Destroy Our Way Of Life”; “Muslim Bus Driver ‘Put Children’s Lives At Risk’ By Stopping For Prayer”; “Benefit Cheats Spared Jail As Fraud Rockets”. For the rightwing tabloids, they are unremarkable – such themes and stereotypes and phrases have run through the papers for decades: on front pages, in news stories, in features, editorials and pieces by columnists, almost all the articles agreeing with each other, almost every day. The papers have tirelessly devoted themselves to what the Italian political theorist Antonio Gramsci referred to as the manufacturing of “common sense”, by which he meant the partisan but often unnoticed and unchallenged assumptions that tilt public opinion rightwards. In 2013, an in-depth survey by Ipsos MORI revealed that Britons vastly overestimate the number of British immigrants, Muslims and benefit fraudsters.
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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/27/revenge-of-the-tabloids-brexit-dacre-murdoch
 
Ten Hagg would be the best manager in the worlds, I hope he be Man Utd manager in 2022.
 
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He was waaay ahead of his time.
 
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CBA to read the article, don't agree with the headline's reasoning but agree that it's the worst of all. The amount of absolute morons that use it is incredible.

Just had pasta for dinner *cryingsmilie*
 
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