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Sid Jonah Anderson

  • Show duration: 40-50 mins
  • Number in company: 2
  • Get-in time: 2 hours
  • Type of work/venue/location: Small, black box intimate
  • Available to tour: Immediately up to August 2008 - only available until Sid's first birthday, 7 August 2008. For later bookings please consider Medea/Becoming British

This live art event features my third baby Sid, who was born on the 7th August 2007. This performance stages the daily labour of mothering, in particular the bathtime/bedtime routine.

In addition to performing ‘baby bedtime routine’ on stage, I will deliver extracts from my diary, which I have kept on a daily basis since the last month of pregnancy. This diary has for me become a generative, critical and contemplative space which charts, marks and critiques the notions of the maternal in the time around the baby’s birth. The diary will also take the form of audio-visual footage projected as a backdrop to my action on stage.

My aim with ‘Sid Jonah Anderson by Lena Simic’ is to de-authorise a private-intimate/public-citizen binary and acknowledge the labour of parenting within an arts context.

Lena Simic

Lena Simic, performance artist, born in Dubrovnik, Croatia, living in Liverpool, UK. Trained in theatre directing/acting at Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia and London Academy of Performing Arts. Recently completed practice as research PhD ‘(Dis)Identifying Female Archetypes in Live Art’ at the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts at Lancaster University.

Currently spending her time with her new baby boy Sid, contemplating the maternal, dissent, bad citizenship and devising a live art event centred round Sid’s bathtime/bedtime.

Also developing a solo performance inspired by the character of Masha Serghyeevna from Chekhov’s Three Sisters.

Recent solo performances Medea/Mothers’ Clothes, Magdalena Makeup and Joan Trial, a series of interventions into female archetypal figures, question contemporary assumptions about motherhood, the ‘naming’ of Others and heroism.

Lena has collaborated with Bluecoat Arts Centre in Liverpool, Nuffield Theatre in Lancaster, Art Workshop Lazareti in Dubrovnik and toured her performances nationally and internationally. Her work has been presented at the National Review of Live Art in Glasgow, Leeds Met Studio Theatre, V&A Museum, Odin Teatret in Denmark, Teatro Guinol in Santa Clara, Cuba amongst others.

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