Category Archives: Research

The Power of Cinema and the ideal of sitting next the ‘other.’

Now and again as an audience saturated with media and entertainment, Cinema is a huge social gathering to which we can all come together in an intimate space to watch a film of any genre. Sitting down next to a … Continue reading

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Annie Sprinkle

One of the most intimate acts that two people can share is the art of ‘love making’, or in other words sex. This act connects people and incorporates skin on skin contact which creates chemical reactions within the body. Annie … Continue reading

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What is Intimacy?

What is Intimacy? To me intimacy is where you feel comfortable with the other person/s, where you are never on edge, never unsure as to whether you can voice your opinions or not and most importantly intimacy with someone is … Continue reading

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Committment

So we finally had an idea for our performance. The idea was that each of us would have a separate tent to which we could each explore intimacy in our own one to one performance, whether this be the ideas … Continue reading

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Olivier De Sagazan: Identity and Transfiguration.

Exploring different performances, I came across one that stood out to me more than anyone I’d seen so far. Olivier De Sagazan is a performance artist who provokes a very different way of experimental performance, through the use of make-up … Continue reading

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