It Was Meant To Be
Centre Charles Peguy, London
In several works, I have used hypnosis and hypno-regression as an ‘accessing’ tool. In 1979 with the artist Peter Davey (see Anxtions) we experimented with hypnotic techniques for the Hayward Annual 1979. I also went to a hypnotherapist to recall a UFO experience. This recording was used in a work at the ICA in 1997, An Angel Called Gravity, in which the entire audience was led from the theatre to St James’s Park to re-create the UFO. In 1982 I went to a hypno-regressionist with Paul Burwell and recorded the session on a cassette player. A labyrinthine story emerged beginning with myself as a girl during WW1 wearing a gas mark and feeling suffocated. I played the recording of the session during a performance ‘It was meant to Be’ at Centre Charles Peguy, as part of Café des Alliés, two weeks of performance art related to the Great War organised by David Medalla and Hermine Demoriane. Whilst the recording played I covered my head with latex making it very hard to breath and projected images of my crying face onto the rubber. My suffocated strangled sounds and breath interspersed with the dream-like quality of my voice. Paul ‘s regression involved being shot down in WW1 as a pilot and he suspended his drum–kit as a flying machine whilst I voiced his terrifying story
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In 2014 as a sequel to Café des Alliés, 32 years previously, I performed at Sacy ‘Two English artists foresee their death.’ The artist Stephen Cripps had done his last performance at Cafe des Alliés in which he launched small burning toy aeroplanes whilst he recited Yeats’s poem ‘An Irish Airman foresees his Death.’ This performance along with Paul’s prompted this performance, ‘Two English artists foresee their death,’ reflecting on the works of both these artists who had since died. Cripps and Burwell’s performances were both concerned with premonitions of death and plane crashes.
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It Was Meant To Be
Centre Charles Peguy, London
In several works, I have used hypnosis and hypno-regression as an ‘accessing’ tool. In 1979 with the artist Peter Davey (see Anxtions) we experimented with hypnotic techniques for the Hayward Annual 1979. I also went to a hypnotherapist to recall a UFO experience. This recording was used in a work at the ICA in 1997, An Angel Called Gravity, in which the entire audience was led from the theatre to St James’s Park to re-create the UFO. In 1982 I went to a hypno-regressionist with Paul Burwell and recorded the session on a cassette player. A labyrinthine story emerged beginning with myself as a girl during WW1 wearing a gas mark and feeling suffocated. I played the recording of the session during a performance ‘It was meant to Be’ at Centre Charles Peguy, as part of Café des Alliés, two weeks of performance art related to the Great War organised by David Medalla and Hermine Demoriane. Whilst the recording played I covered my head with latex making it very hard to breath and projected images of my crying face onto the rubber. My suffocated strangled sounds and breath interspersed with the dream-like quality of my voice. Paul ‘s regression involved being shot down in WW1 as a pilot and he suspended his drum–kit as a flying machine whilst I voiced his terrifying story
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In 2014 as a sequel to Café des Alliés, 32 years previously, I performed at Sacy ‘Two English artists foresee their death.’ The artist Stephen Cripps had done his last performance at Cafe des Alliés in which he launched small burning toy aeroplanes whilst he recited Yeats’s poem ‘An Irish Airman foresees his Death.’ This performance along with Paul’s prompted this performance, ‘Two English artists foresee their death,’ reflecting on the works of both these artists who had since died. Cripps and Burwell’s performances were both concerned with premonitions of death and plane crashes.
www.chateaudesacy.com/news/e_news.php#2014
