Trout House Replica & So the Red Rose / Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre/ 11 Nov 23 - 17 Feb 24.
Trout House Replica & So the Red Rose / Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre/ 11 Nov 23 - 17 Feb 24.
Paula Chambers took over Vanda Chan's Arcadia for the performance ‘ARTEMIS (LIVE ON THE CUT)’. In 1992 I bought an old wooden house boat called Artemis. My father had died unexpectedly and left me a small amount of money. With this money I did two things, I enrolled on an MA in feminist art history, and I bought a boat. 1990s Britain was, in retrospect, an optimistic decade, it seemed to us all I think, that things were finally moving forward. The horror of AIDS and the legacy of the Thatcher years were starting to fade, and in their place we had shell suits, mobile phones, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas, and the Spice Girls.
‘ARTEMIS (LIVE ON THE CUT)’ presents a grungy narrative account of her years living on the dilapidated boat in the 1990s, interspersed with song fragments by Bjork, PJ Harvey, The Spice Girls, Madonna…
Paula Chambers is an artist , academic and arts educator. She has exhibited widely including Shoplifting at Woolworths: And Other Acts of Material Disobedience at Barnsley Civic, West Yorkshire. Paula is Subject Leader for Sculpture on BA(Hons) Fine Art at Leeds Arts University and has presented at national and international conferences on feminism, contemporary art and the domestic. She has chapters published in Feminist Visual Activism and the Body , and in Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms, and has had articles published in Performance/Research Journal (special issue On The Maternal ) and in JourMS.