Helena Walsh - Live Art and Video Performance

Triode: a semiconductor device with three connections, typically allowing the flow of current in one direction only.
The video performance “Triode” delves into the dark depths of the history of female fascism in Britain, responding to the fact that a woman Rotha Lintorn-Orman founded the first fascist movement in Britain, The British Fascisti in 1923. Taking the form of a triptych, structured in a three-screen format “Triode” forms uses this specific era of female history to question the contemporary politics of power associated with the female body. Investigating sexual submission, dominance and the cold mechanical use of the female body as a reproductive machine to serve the State. The differing screen colours refer to the British flag as the work questions the presence of right wing nationalism our increasingly multicultural world.


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Triode: a semiconductor device with three connections, typically allowing the flow of current in one direction only. The video performance “Triode” delves into the dark depths of the history of female fascism in Britain, responding to the fact that a woman Rotha Lintorn-Orman founded the first fascist movement in Britain, The British Fascisti in 1923. Taking the form of a triptych, structured in a three-screen format “Triode” forms uses this specific era of female history to question the contemporary politics of power associated with the female body. Investigating sexual submission, dominance and the cold mechanical use of the female body as a reproductive machine to serve the State. The differing screen colours refer to the British flag as the work questions the presence of right wing nationalism our increasingly multicultural world.