This week: Crisis Cabaret, 2013.

In March 2013 I performed a chapter from my first novella Common live onstage at the Barbican, London.

Common was written as Self-Appointed Artist-in-Residence in the City of London during the financial crisis of 2011. In this performance I read from the chapter Crisis Cabaret, while the specially formed dance group Loose Change perform a collectively developed routine with penny shields by Cat Phillipps, originally made for her interactive art-work Small Change, which took place on the anti-cuts demo March for the Alternative in 2011. My dress is a wearable painting by Lisa Milroy and I am accompanied by Steve Beresford on the piano.

Loose Change ensemble: Bea Bonafini, Caroline Smith, Cristina Planas, Eleanor Morgan, Freya Bramble-Carter, Helena Hunter, Jean Eisenman, Juntae TJ Hwang, Katie Lerman, Lara Mackenzie-Lee, Mimi Winsor, Naomi Fitzsimmons, Nicholai Nicholai, Rachael House, Sally O’Reilly and Xtina Lamb.

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