Category: Suicide
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Small Steps and Art Activism
Last Thursday saw Small Steps events take over Make on North Liverpool Docks. Small Steps runs events to highlight social issues through the arts. Last Thursday saw an eclectic mix of performance, a breathtaking visual arts exhibition and engaging workshops drawing attention to Mental Health. Cork-based artist Ann Mechelinck showed us how craft-based practice can…
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Light Night Performance
Greenery, the Guardian is the latest poem from Alison Little, it will be performed as part of Light Night Liverpool. Greenery, the Guardian Green surrounds, the greenest of green Green forever, then, green some more Long grass, a simple fragment of sky I wake sober in the distant field My thoughts now clear and renewed…
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Suspended: Bold Place
The Female Suspension The female suspension takes over 5 Bold Place until the 8th of April. The lower bodies were hooked through the groin and suspended from chains earlier in the week. In the shadows of the Bombed Out Church, Bold Place lies directly beside St Luke’s Church, Liverpool City Centre. The Female suspension is an…
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Artist Talk: The Female Suspension
The Female suspension is an installation which addresses a world of sexual violence. The lower bodies and limbs of numerous women who have been raped are suspended by chained, hooks penetrating their groins. Meat like, a waste product, violated then disposed of like an animal carcass meat still to be stripped from the bones. This…
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Starlet
Starlet is a fictional work from Alison Little, none of the charters or events are based on real life. Starlet She brushes her hair after her mid-morning bath, her routine so much more leisurely than her childhood days of rushing between casting and filming. She had become a star at the age of three, the…