Louise Liliefeldt is performing in Toronto on Saturday at midnight... in her own home! Yikes! It will for sure be good, but I might be too scared to go. I have seen her perform before and its an intense experience. Here's a snippet I wrote for an exhibition catalogue about Liliefeldt's 2003 performance at York University’s Vari Hall: When Louise Liliefeldt is performing, she cuts the air at a different angle from the rest of us. Dignified and dangerous, her actions are offered as a challenge and a gift. Through endurance and simple exertions, she objectifies herself, and we experience a shadow of the pain that dehumanization inflicts on the subjugated.
All three of these women are favourites of mine - reading about Ukele in books got me all excited to be an artist in my youth. Liliefeldt and Belmore both have that in-the-moment charisma of great performers (the lack of which people like me try to make up for by talking too much and employing fanciful stage props).
My own work-around for a lack of charisma is to be lit lovingly ...and carry a puppy.
you set yourself on fire while holding a puppy?!!
Duh! ...well like, ya!
(now I'll spend the rest of the day thinking about how I could have written that earlier sentence differently)
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Louise Liliefeldt is performing in Toronto on Saturday at midnight... in her own home! Yikes! It will for sure be good, but I might be too scared to go. I have seen her perform before and its an intense experience. Here's a snippet I wrote for an exhibition catalogue about Liliefeldt's 2003 performance at York University’s Vari Hall: All three of these women are favourites of mine - reading about Ukele in books got me all excited to be an artist in my youth. Liliefeldt and Belmore both have that in-the-moment charisma of great performers (the lack of which people like me try to make up for by talking too much and employing fanciful stage props).
- sally mckay 10-08-2005 1:10 am
My own work-around for a lack of charisma is to be lit lovingly ...and carry a puppy.
- L.M. 10-08-2005 6:44 pm
you set yourself on fire while holding a puppy?!!
- rusty_k 10-08-2005 7:32 pm
Duh! ...well like, ya!
(now I'll spend the rest of the day thinking about how I could have written that earlier sentence differently)
- L.M. 10-08-2005 7:56 pm