A Certain Jouissance:
A Day in the Life of a Radical Lesbian Feminist Bowling Activist
R.J. Christies, Vancouver, 1989
This piece grew out of a great number of factors in my development as an artist and a lesbian. Having just graduated from S.F.U with a concentration in dance, I had developed my identity in opposition to conventional gender norms within this practice. At the time my reading of the French feminists', Cixous, Irigary and Kristeva, encouraged me to create this work and embrace both the pleasure and the pain of becoming "the sex that isn't one".
The accompanying sound score to this piece was Gertrude Stein's poem, or text line:
"Have you at all been interfered with" in repeat, with sounds of bowling balls hitting bowling pins.
The accompanying sound score to this piece was Gertrude Stein's poem, or text line:
"Have you at all been interfered with" in repeat, with sounds of bowling balls hitting bowling pins.