Slow Dancing and Fluid Encounters (FLORENCE PEAKE)

Guest artist FLORENCE PEAKE joins ELIZABETH FULLERTON to discuss her multi-faceted, performance-led art practice via 'Stone Butch Blues' 1993 by Leslie Feinberg. It tells the story of life as a butch lesbian in 1970s, working class America and is particularly unique due to the writer gaining full rights to the text, making it fully accessible online and for free. Florence and Elizabeth talk about hysterical clay, collapsing paintings, mark-making without sight, rigid heteronormative conventions, the patriarchy's rule which brings a perpetual fear of violence, butch lesbians in the 70s, drag queens, sex workers and femmes, extractions of earthly matter and energy, the dance floor as a space for belonging and expression, splattering the audience with clay, tenderness and care, finding comfort in the face of shame, and encountering ourselves imaginatively in relationship to objective reality. Please support this podcast via patreon.com/ARTFICTIONSPODCAST FLORENCE PEAKE florencepeake.com insta florence_peake Richard Saltoun Gallery 2023 16 April - 2 July 'Factual Actual Ensemble' at Southwark Park Galleries then touring to Fruitmarket Gallery and Towner Gallery 2023 11 Feb - 7 May 'Earth Spells: Witches of the Anthropocene' at RAM Museum, Exter with Caroline Achaintre, Emma Hart, Kris Lemsalu, Mercedes Mühleisen, Grace Ndiritu, Florence Peake, Kiki Smith, Lucy Stein 2023 18 Feb - 6 May 'Body Poetics' at Giant, Bournemouth with Penny Slinger, Helen Chadwick, Florence Peake, Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Charlotte Edey, Enam Gbewonyo, Rosie Gibbens, Guerrilla Girls, Evan Ifekoya, Ad Minoliti, Senga Nengudi, Niki De Saint Phalle, Carolee Schneemann, Tai Shani, Kiki Smith, Rae-Yen Song, Holly Stevenson curated by Marcelle Joseph and Bella Pelly-Fry 2021 Factual Actual at National Gallery 2021-22 Crude Care for British Art Show at Aberdeen Art Gallery then touring UK 2019 Apparition Apparition at Venice Biennale 2018 RITE: on this pliant body we slip our WOW! at De La Warr Pavillion 2015 Voicings for Block Universe at Modern Art Oxford, Somerset House ARTISTS + PERFORMERS Cameron Armitage Carolee Schneeman 'Meat Joy' Donald Judd Emma Hart Eve Stainton Fabian Peake Igor Sravinsky 'The Rite of Spring' Gabi Agis Grayson Duitu Jo Moran Jordan McKenzie Kate Bush Lee Bowie Lindsey Kemp Mercedes Grower Michael Clarke 'I am a Curious Orange' Rosemary Butcher Siobhan Davis Studios Tai Shani The Fall Yvonne Rainer BOOKS Juliet Jacques 'Variations' 2021 Carmen Maria Machado 'In the Dreamhouse' 2019 Octavia Butler

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