Les Bijoux Indiscrets, or, Paper Tigers
Performance, text
A whimsical and magical world of female friendship and immodesty, where jewels sing and books talk and geometry descends in octagons and hexagrams, in crushing cascades and nervous nebulas, Les Bijoux Indiscrets, or, Paper Tigers presents star-gazing conversations with Margaret Cavendish, Denis Diderot, Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, and Karl Marx, to experiment with anachronistic astronomy, feminist and queer utopias, the silliness of rationality, and the politics and forms of erotic Platonic dialogues.
Performances:
[SPACE], London (2019)
Performed by: Sophie Seita, Emma Attwood, Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain, Jocelyn Spaar, Erin Robinsong, Simone Kearney, Naomi Woo
Set design and jewellery: Anna Moser
Photographs: Laura Cobb
Bold Tendencies, London (2017)
Performed by: Sophie Seita, Vahni Capildeo, Nisha Ramayya, Adrianna Liedtke, Emma Attwood, Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain, Celine Lowenthal
Set design and jewellery: Anna Moser
Photographs: Natalia Jaeger
Issue Project, Brooklyn (2016) and La MaMa Galleria, New York (2017)
Performed by: Sophie Seita, Constance DeJong, Lucy Ives, Cecilia Corrigan, Corina Copp, Wendy Lotterman, Ada Smailbegovic, Jocelyn Spaar, Bridget Talone,
Set design and props: Emmy Catedral
La MaMa Galleria performance commissioned and presented by NYPAC, the New York Performance Artists Collective, an organisation dedicated to advancing the production, accessibility, and scholarship of performance and intermedia art
Photograph: Sam Draxler
Video documentation:
Duration: 21:22 min
Edited by Tom Varley
Published:
Gauss PDF (2017)
Emergency Index (2017)
Press:
Reviewed by So Mayer in Hix Eros (2018)