A Showgirl Manifesto

Alison J Carr’s art practice and academic research takes entertainment seriously. Most often, she focuses on showgirls and theatres. Advertising images of women’s bodies that construct and repeat (ad infinitum) a connection between physical perfection and commodification drives her work. 

Through this talk, which is mostly an artist’s lecture, partly performance, Carr will demonstrate how she works across photography, performance, video, collage and sometimes sculpture and painting to ask if entertainment can be tooled to rupture our cultural conditioning towards neoliberal individuality.