If you are interested in seeing/ experiencing some of my work you can go to:
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Year Long Performance:
Title: “Re/Cre8” by Lady Kitt
Where: Room 029 Squires Building, Northumbria University (for the dates below) and various (for all other dates between June the 12th 2008 and 12th June 2009)
When: Thursday 12th June 2008 6-8pm, Thursday 19th June 2008 1-3pm, and Thursday 26th June 2008 1-3pm
Duration: A year
Action:
During the above dates Lady Kitt, as her character Id Turpin, will perform Re/Cre8 in a clear PVC tent. In the space is a mobile phone and a collection of “play” and art items (for example twister board, paints, canvases, a ball, a set of furry dice, an etch a sketch, the complete works of Shakespeare, a guitar, a pack of cards, a plastic gun, a baby doll). For the duration of the performance the only actions she will perform are her interpretations of directions communicated to her via text messages sent to the Re/Cre8 mobile. The messages can be from viewers in the space or further away. Images will be uploaded to the Re/Cre8 Myspace so distance viewers can see the interpretations of their directions.
A year of Re/Cr8-ing: The12th of June marks the start of a year long version of Re/Cre8. From 6pm on June the 12th 2008 until 6pm on 12th June 2009 Lady Kitt will check the Re/Cre8 mobile phone daily between the hrs of 6-8pm and respond to any texts within the following 48hrs. All texts and the actions they promote will be recorded through writing, drawing and photography and posted on the Re/Cre8 Facebook (Ladykitt Yearlongperformance).
To Get Involved: After June 12th send texts to 07982 912803 and see the Facebook to find out how Lady Kitt interprets them.
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Title: “Eat Your Own Words”
Where: Georgian Theatre, Green Dragon Yard, Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, TS18 1AT
When: 5-8pm, Saturday June 21st 2008
Action: As Part of “It’s Not The End Of The World” Lady Kitt, as her character Maria Diogeneva, will ask viewers to write down their three favorite words. The words will then be used to inspire the creation of a series of edible artworks made from biscuits*.
To Get Involved: Viewers write their three favorite words on “Word Slips”. Each slip will inspire an individual artwork which can be purchased for a donation of one pound.
Tickets available from: www.georgiantheatre.co.uk
For More info: www.myspace.com/lady_kitt. or www.myspace.com/endoftheworldfestival
*Biscuits made by artist Claire Rowland
4) Title: Church Builder Illustrations
Where: http://www.kiddycad.com/ or
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When: Anytime
What: Lady Kitt has created a series of illustrations for Kiddy CAD’s new 3D Modeling Software. KiddyCAD is owned by the Deanery of Business and Computer Sciences within Liverpool Hope University. It houses the development of 3D modeling educational software within the Deanery's School of Computing.
5) Title: “Hide” with Skimstone
Where: Various venues throughout the North East
www.skimstone.org.uk and www.myspace. com/hide_project
When: NOW!
What: We invite you to tell us your stories of the things you have hidden in e-space………
E-Space if full of aspects of our identity that we may wish to hide from others: bank details, medical records, family trees, tax records, physiological profiles, fingerprints.
These are examples of stories we have already heard:
A girl who sells pictures of her feet to a foot fetish website to pay her way through medical school….the man who’s wife ruined their marriage by having affairs on the internet…. the 14 year old who secretly used his parents credit cards to gamble away 4 thousand pounds online because he wanted to be like James Bond….
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"Lady Kitt: The next Banksy"
Jim Railton (Fine Art Auctioneer), 2007
Lady Kitt Artist Statement:
I am Lady Kitt. I am a live artist. In a practice which is increasingly socially engaged I explore creative ownership, private and public rituals associated with creativity, and the mythology of the artist; looking at the role of the audience in the realisation of work.
I use performative work and information technology to open lines of communication between viewer, work and artist thus inviting the relationships between these elements to transform. In my work I explore creative authorship, offer viewers the opportunity to become involved in activities and ideas. I regularly use everyday, non-threatening materials; things that most people have access to, often using items that are absurd. In my most recent performance I asked viewers to make pictures with toothpaste.
In my work the internet functions as an egalitarian platform, allowing individuals the freedom to perform (sometimes otherwise hidden) aspects of their identity. Traditionally in performance art, the artist has become the object. Performing via the internet allows the artist, art and viewer to all become non-objects. Reduced to binary digits, with no fixed meaning or being; these elements can successfully metamorphose, establishing a new context for making sharing, appreciating and being art.
I work with a variety of alter egos* to explore the function of performance within art and life. By adopting an alter ego and then making work as that character, I explore the potential of performance as a tool for making art as well as a method for presenting it. The histories and motivations of the characters might be interesting to people who view their work, but the viewer doesn’t need to know anything about how it was made- or who it was made by- to engage with it.
I want my work to be beautiful, playful, entertaining and just a little enigmatic. I am utterly dedicated to making art accessible to as many people as possible to view, participate in and buy. I passionately believe that increased public involvement in the arts has the potential to enrich the cultural landscape and the quality of individual lives.
Just a quick note to ask you to come to our gig on 19th October at The Underworld in Camden. We hope you’re free and can make it because we’d welcome your support! Please click on the flyer below for a link to our site to buy a ticket (and you’ll save about 4 quid!)…
…and for doing so, clicking on the link below will open a new window for you to download the She EP for free…a way of saying thanks!
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We’re playing new material including RIP (our version of Gary Numan’s song from his Pure cd) so it should be a really cool night!
You are cordially invited to help us... Judge the World’s First online Bollywood dance competition. It’s called Bollypop, and it’s going on right now! Contest winners receive a trip to India and a chance to dance in a Bollywood movie!
***Attention DEADLINES are approaching Quickly***
Deadline for video entries is October 7, 2008
Voting ends October 15, 2008
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