| Description: | Ashworth Hospital is a maximum secure
hospital housing patients suffering
mental illness and personality disorders.
While Bobby Baker's poignant, yet
humorous performances adopt an
autobiographical voice, they are, more
accurately insightful evaluations of many
women's lives; as well as perceptive
observations on the
unchallenged 'masculinisation' of art's
materials. Always using food as
the 'stuff' of her art, the first performance
in her The Daily Life Series began with.
Kitchen Show 1991, How to Shop 1993,
Take a Peek 1995, to be followed by
Jelly Game 1997 & Box Story 1999.
Diane Clarke has been making video
since 1991 and works as an independent
producer in collaboration with writers,
performers, dance and theatre. She is
currently Course Leader in Time Based
Media, Television and Video, Southport.
Collaborators:
Anwen, Tracey, Julie, Fiona, Rapella.
Tracey, Tania, Tina, Heather, Kerry,
Tracey, Brenda, Patricia, Ruth, of
Ashworth Hospital, Merseyside; Bobby
Baker, Diane Clarke.
| | Description Source: | "Video Positive 97: Ecsaping Gravity", exhibition catalogue | | Description Source Date: | 1997 | | Type: | group |
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