Mixed Blood Performance

Documentation of my sister, Gabrielle, and I performing as part of the Primavera 2011 Hiromi Tango Project, Hiromi Hotel - Mixed Blood.


Photo Documentation by Yu Fang Lai

Femme Foetals x Hiromi Tango

Documentation of an interactive performance project conceived during a period of collaboration under the direction of MCA Primavera artist, Hiromi Tango from September - November 2011. In response to Tango's ongoing performance and installation project, Hiromi Hotel - Mixed Blood, my sister, Gabrielle, and I performed an absurd rebirthing ritual in the foyer of the Cleland Bond building, The Rocks, Sydney. 

Dressed in the guise of our alter-ego duo, The Femme Foetals, we used costume and performance to explore boundaries between mother/child and self/body. Inspired by the transformation of the body during pregnancy, and by simultaneous processes of growth and loss that are integral to childbirth, we performed a series of ritualised actions in which we attempted to embody states of becoming Other. 

The following images provide documentation of the costume development and performance rehearsal.