Interview with Anna Felicity Friedman aka the Burlesque Butcher
ET: On your website, alongside a photo of you, is a caption that I love: “Just a small feminist note…this is what a real, non-photoshopped, 5′ 7″, 127 pound, size 4 to 6 body looks like. Yes, I look chubby by magazine and fashion-industry standards, which gives you an indication of how misleading and manipulated […]
Zackary Drucker “The Story of Lynn Harris”
The theme of Thursday’s video series was Corporal Discomfort, a concept that echoed the unease brought about by each of the day’s performances. They all involved some degree of suffering on the part of the performer, eliciting a kind of sympathy pain from audience members. The descriptor “hard to watch” came to mind frequently. Carlos […]
The Burlesque Butcher
Cleaver-wielding beauty Anna Felicity Friedman AKA the Burlesque Butcher provided a rousing kick-off to this week at the Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival with a provocative performance on Monday afternoon. Friedman’s process began with a thorough cleaning of the two parallel, street facing windows in front of the Defibrillator gallery. Drop cloths were placed, […]