October 2005 – idea for video performance.

Launching her unique new Therapy Empire, Baker offers a set of life-changing techniques in a show guaranteed to effect results in ordered and disordered minds alike.

DVD by Deborah May. This item is part of the Study Room Guide On Disability and New Artistic Models by Rachel Aaron Williamson (P1529)

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR).

Includes:

Traversee (2004), Morsures (2004), Bleu Provisoire (2001), Coeur Affome (1997), Autoportrait dans une fourmilere (2003).

Inhabits a liminal space, hovering somewhere between reverie and spectacle, hesitantly attempting to map the troubled psychic territory of our millenarian obsessions, anxieties, daydreams and nightmares.

London, May 2004.

Offers an accessible introduction to post-war avant-garde performance.

Reflects the body as source of language, the image as the parameter of expression and the sound (such as noise, language) as medium of meaning.

Considers how the artist’s ever-fluctuating reconstructions of her face question idealized beauty and female identity, persuasively arguing that Orlan’s surgically reinvented face succeeds in both reinforcing and breaking apart corporeal subjectivity and representation.

Seperate article in folder

Pulls together a diverse selection of artists whose work embraces the possibilities of personality and appearance, racial and sexual stereotype, role-playing and reality.