TELEVISION LOUNGE

TELEVISION LOUNGE

SPILL FESTIVAL OF PERFORMANCE

IPSWICH 2014

THE OLD IPSWICH POLICE HEADQUARTERS

PHOTOGRAPHY BY GUIDO MENCARI / FILM BY CHAMELEONEYEFILMS

Created + Performed by Poppy Jackson

Produced by Sally Rose

▲ Old Ipswich Police Headquarters Television Lounge, menstrual blood > 7 hour duration

Jackson stands motionless in the old Television Lounge of a derelict Police Headquarters, in the corner where the TV-set was previously situated when the building was a working Police Station. 

She faces the wall continuously for 7 hours whilst menstruating, so that over the duration of the work blood slowly drips down her legs and onto the carpet.

“Phenomenal”

- Lois Keidan, Director, Live Art Development Agency

"It was a simple image, which required complete commitment and intense focus as a performer – and was beautiful with clear politics. There was a rigour and simplicity to the arduousness of the action. It was a work that rippled through the festival, and the artistic intention was felt."

- Sally Rose, Producer

All images © 2014 - 2019 Poppy Jackson