Bedding Out is a 48-hour around-the-clock live performance by artist-activist Liz Crow
Salisbury Arts Centre & via Social Media
10 – 12 April 2013, starting 2.00pm
Bedding Out emerges from the current welfare benefits overhaul, which threatens many with poverty and a propagandist campaign that has seen disability hate crime leap by 50%. Coinciding with the introduction of the Personal Independence Payment, which replaces Disability Living Allowance from 8 April 2013, it sees Liz taking her private bed-oriented life and placing it in the public arena for all to see over a 48-hour period.
“I wear a public self that is energetic, dynamic and happening, but I am also ill and spend much of life in bed,” explains artist-activist Liz Crow. “The private self is neither beautiful nor grownup. It does not win friends or accolades, and I conceal it carefully, but the benefits system demands a reversal - my private self paraded to justify support.”
As she contends with the contradictions of the benefits system, Liz explains: “For some months, I have lain low for fear of being penalised, but instead of letting fear determine who I am, I’d rather stare it in the face. Bedding Out is a performance in which I take my private self and make it public -something I have not done in over 30 years.”
In a gallery, over a period of 48 hours, Liz will take to her bed, performing what she describes as the other side of her fractured self - her “bed-life.”
“Since the public me is carefully constructed, this will be a kind of un-performing of my self. I want to make a twilight existence visible, but more than that, I want to show that what many people see as contradiction - what they describe as fraud - is only the complexity of real life.”
So here’s how you can join in:
In Bedside Conversations members of the public gather round the bed to talk about the work, its backdrop and its politics.
Watch online at www.roaring-girl.com
Wed 10 Apr: 2.00pm and 6.00pm (GMT +1)
Thu 11 Apr: noon (via Twitter) and 3.15pm
Fri 12 Apr: 10.15am
Free Entry. Duration 40 minutes. Sign up at Salisbury Arts Centre website: uk.patronbase.com/_SAC/Productions or phone 01722 321744. BSL interpreter and notetaker present at all Conversations.
Via the web: You can watch Bedding Out, including all Bedside Conversations, throughout its 48 hours at www.roaring-girl.com.
Bedside Conversations will be live streamed with audio, BSL interpretation and live subtitles.
On Twitter (@RGPLIzCrow #beddingout):
Follow @RGPLizCrow and use the #beddingout hashtag to take part in the conversation.
Join our Twitter-based Bedside Conversation on Thu 11 Apr at noon.
By text message: Anyone not on twitter can text us: 07784 899514 (outside the UK take away the 0 and add +44) and we can upload what they say to twitter. Typing ‘MySecret’ before the text, means we will tweet messages anonymously.
@rgplizcrow | #BeddingOut | 07784 899514 | www.roaring-girl.com
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