Date/Time: Friday, 30 August 2024, 16:30-17:10
Venue: 11F Studio 3, Taipei Performing Arts Center
Artist: Emma Maye Gibson
QA Moderator: Kate Britton / Artistic Director of Performance Space
Language: In English (QA)
Bury the Beast
Bury the Beast will call upon my experiences of crisis as a reaction to compounded grief and cultural silence. Through movement, poetry and song I will share the ways in which accessing ancestral power and gifts has aided in my recovery and ability to be of service.
Bury the Beast is about fire. It is about learning how to tend to a fire that can crack open, light the way and create life, but also how mismanaged or insulted can implode, burn out or rage uncontrollably. In this work is an ongoing wish toward an ecosexual relationship that can soften the sharp edges of overwhelm, paranoia and paralysis.
Bury the Beast is an ongoing ecosexual wish towards flesh, force and the fecund.
This work is supported by Performance Space.
Emma Maye Gibson, Australia
Emma Maye Gibson (AKA Betty Grumble) is a Warrane/Sydney based performance artist. Largely through the avatar/war mask/love letter/critter of Grumble she engages her body as a hopeful and medicinal site for catharsis and pleasure. Often moving in a genre smash of ritual theatre, autobiography, cabaret, performance art and multi-media, she is a proud ecosexual and believes in art as an action of her spirituality. She has her Masters in Fine Arts/Arse and has presented work at The Sydney Opera House, Glastonbury, Edinburgh Fringe, Perth & Adelaide Fringes, The Melbourne Comedy Festival, The Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Griffin Theatre, Belvoir St Theatre, The Bearded Tit, Red Rattler Theatre, OUTsider Festival (Austin, Texas), MoMA (NYC), Joe’s Pub (NYC), The Glory (London), LiveWorks, The Old Fitz, AsiaTOPA, Dark Mofo, Mona Foma, Sydney World Pride, Ted X, AGNSW, MCA, Berlin Fringe, Rising Festival and beyond. She believes in the flesh riot, leads Grumble Boogie ‘Thank You Body’ aerobic psychic love energy dance classes and is currently engaged in developing a new work under the guidance of mentors Dr Annie Sprinkle, Elizabeth Burton and Victoria Spence. Major works include: Sex Clown Saves The World, Love & Anger, The Unshame Machine, GRUMBLISM, Grumble Boogie, Goddess – The Elizabeth Burton Story, Mini Beast Disco, A Midsummer Night's Cream, A Composting Cabaret, 24HR Grumble Boogie, 6HR Grumble Boogie & Enemies of Grooviness Eat Shit.
Photo courtesy of the artist
Key visual photo © Joseph Mayers
