Helena Walsh - Live Art and Video Performance

In the performance the artist relates her experience of working as a pregnant waitress, while tending to twelve of the audience seated around a large dining table. Discussing her observations of class and ethnic divisions in this line of work. The performance twists the role of the waitress between being servile and dominant. Displayed on menu boards are the placentas sourced from the different ethnic origins featured on an equal opportunity form. Through combining pain with pleasure, hope with tragedy, fine dining with self-service, rawness with the reservation this performance questions our capacity to consume the barriers both corporeal and material that fence in human fear. The performance is rich in text, twists, tension and visual actions.


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In the performance the artist relates her experience of working as a pregnant waitress, while tending to twelve of the audience seated around a large dining table. Discussing her observations of class and ethnic divisions in this line of work. The performance twists the role of the waitress between being servile and dominant. Displayed on menu boards are the placentas sourced from the different ethnic origins featured on an equal opportunity form. Through combining pain with pleasure, hope with tragedy, fine dining with self-service, rawness with the reservation this performance questions our capacity to consume the barriers both corporeal and material that fence in human fear. The performance is rich in text, twists, tension and visual actions.