Here’s the performance paper I delivered at ‘Who Do We Think We Are: Representing the Human’, in March 2011 at the Royal Holloway The Showgirl Speaks! Paper
Alison J Carr is a Fine Art PhD researcher and lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. She completed her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in May 2009 and BA (Hons) Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University in 2001. She works in photography, video, performance and writing. Her research; How do I look? uses the figure of the showgirl as her method: developing her own ‘Showgirlian’ approach to negotiate feminism and femininity, new viewing strategies, the voice of the viewed, the relevancy of glamour; all whilst trying to reconcile her personal desires to be a ‘showgirl’ and a ‘theorist’.
This is her website; here you will find completed art works and writing, current-in-progress works, PhD ideas and thoughts. A web-scrap book. If anything interests you do comment.
Jan 202012
Nov 242011
The show that I’m involved in at LoBe is finally happening! The show is opening on 16th December, come say hi if you are in Berlin. For more info, here’s a link to the press release: press_Carr_Honeit-final
Aug 222011
Jun 232011
I’m in Berlin until mid-July on a residency at LoBe gallery lobeart.eu. I shall be showing at LoBe later in the year with Berlin-based artist, Kerstin Honeit.
I’m in LA 6th-26th April, mainly for How Do We Look? symposium, but also for watching burlesque, photographing theatres, going to archives. Perhaps also working* on the beach. Would love company for all the above, if you’re in LA.
*on my tan ;)
Mar 132011
I shall be taking part in How Do We Look?, a one day symposiym at MOCA, LA, 9th April 2011, howdowelook.com
Mar 062011
I just put my first chapter online, it is under ‘Writing’, or here Literature Review.
Feb 192011
I’ve uploaded the ‘script’ for my RF2 (half way exam for PhD) presentation on Tuesday, you can find it here The Showgirlian Method or under ‘Writing’.
The paper I delivered at Transmission: Hospitality has now been published on their website at http://extra.shu.ac.uk/transmission/papers/CARR%20Alison.pdf
Nov 122010
I shall being performing a paper of collected showgirl voices at Who Do We Think We Are?: Representing the Human, Saturday 19th March 2011, a postgraduate symposium hosted by the Drama and Theatre Department at Royal Holloway, University of London http://www.rhul.ac.uk/dramaandtheatre/news/newsarticles/whodowethinkwearerepresentingthehumanpostgraduatesymposium.aspx