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Artistic Directors: Permiso
(Todd Shalom & Niegel Smith)
Associate Director: Andrea Williams
Performers:
Jarah Moesch
David Shaenfield
Shannan Shaughnessy
Andrea Williams |
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We performed in the semi-public space of a bathroom inside a bar/performance space. I disrupted normalized bathroom codes by interacting with users of the restroom by encouraging them to use my 'better' toilet paper, choosing music to listen to while using the facility, and asking them for assistance in washing my face, applying lipstick and eye-shadow. |
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blotting lipstick in the bathroom |
dancing in the bathroom
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By requesting help from feminized bodies with rituals that all 'women' are supposed to know, such as how to apply lipstick, people were forced to decide whether to help or not, to ignore or assist, and perhaps think about the 'normalcy' in following these rites of womanhood. |
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the jarah tree dot com . the artwork of jarah moesch