Vein - One of four parts - Performance

Performative Reading with live audience, Particpants requested to stand or sit silently with their eyes closed while I moved between them performing the text. The work uses voice and presence of the performer to invite listening, through - my northern dialect; the work explores memory, place and the trauma of domestic violence; witnessing and experiencing that violence as a child; finding ways of surviving, standing up and saying no to that abuse, while supporting others to do so, which then develops into positive and fantastic imagery, through a participatory, creative, feminist, and poetic act. The performance then invites the audience to open their eyes and the scroll is slowly taken down and it cascades to the floor; I then slowly proceed to roll myself up in the transparent scroll which creates a very loud sound score as it rolled in and out of, the performer wraps and unwraps herself from the words. The work is therfore transformed and left discarded and changed across the floor.