how do I look

How do I look
Performance research by Virginia Kennard
What does it mean to look and to be looked at?

Reversing the Gaze

Looking in to look out, looking back

Photo graphy by Zoe Platt-Young
for Halleujah Society 2014
The Lady Garden
A performance installation of live naked women as desexualised objects, asking the audience to renegotiate the lens with which they use to look at women and women's bodies.

Feature story TV3 Nightline
14 December 2012
Exhibition challenges attitudes to nudity

Feature story Radio New Zealand Upbeat
14 December 2012
The Lady Garden

World premiere, Matchbox Studios
Wellington, December 2012

NZ Fringe Festival, Matchbox Studios
Wellington, January 2013

Explicit: Implicit, The Porn Project
Auckland, August 2013

Winter edition, Understudy bar
Wellington, August 2014

promiscuous makes an entrance
Performed for S.A.M.P.L.E.
(Some Artists Make Performance Laboratory Experiments)
Monthly performance art night curated by Alana Yee
Performance research would become facets of The Lady Garden

Photography by Sara Cowdell

October 2011 - Virginia Kennard
March 2012 - Willow Newey and Jillian Davey
April 2012 - Salena Govind
how do i look?
The composition sounds like a woman who cannot speak, who is not allowed to speak.
Virginia and Emi developed the composition to include distorted recordings of a man speaking.
The resulting sonic work juxtaposes [un]gendered words with the gendered expectations of the gaze, to which Virginia performed a broken-hearted dance work, blind, for her ex-girlfriend.

photography by paul jennings

How do i look?
Movement performance by Virginia Kennard
Sonic composition by Emi Pogoni
Vocal artists Vincent Konrad and Rose Blake
Explicit: Implicit, The Porn Project
Auckland 2013

Sound::Gender::Feminism::Activism 2014
Featured sonic composition with Emi Pogoni
What in the historical present might constitute
an activist life in sound?

London College of Communication
University of the Arts, London
16 - 17 October 2014
what is body positivity?
Spoken word performance
Poetry in Motion, Heaven Pizza
October 2013

Is it my mum who
won't leave the house without makeup on
Is it my best friend from high school who cuts the size tags out of her clothes
Is it me who
is invisible if you aren't looking
Photography by Phillipa Clark
"Sometimes i talk out loud
whilst taking my clothes off" - Virginia
to and fro
in process

populating the gallery space with our performance practices
artspace, auckland, july - august 2014

Photography by peter jennings

Diary
Photography by Amelia Hitchcock
SPEAKING AS A BODILY ACT [WORKING TITLE]
Soundscape by Emi Pogoni
Photography by Nina Gastreich
notes on looking
Where am i looking if i am not looking at you?
That’s not me i see.

photography by aurynn shaw

notes on looking 2.0
Photo by Paradox Photography
The Menagerie
Fringe Bar, Wellington
27 June 2015

notes on looking 1.0
Photography by
Myah Flynn
Short & Sweet Festival
TAPAC, Auckland
September 2014
The Bloody Bride

Premiere performance 21 November 2014
Tease, In Good Company
Cuba Street, Wellington
Dress by Brides of Piccadilly, Sydney
for Nadia Cranganu, 2007

Body painting by Soumya Bhamidipati

Photography by Filippo Gasparini

welcome to my period party

[working title The Red Wedding]

Performance images featured at
Widening the Cycle
A Menstrual Cycle & Reproductive Justice Art Show, Suffolk University Law School
Boston, 4 - 6 June 2015

Featured at
You Occupy My Body By Looking
You occupy my body by looking

Toi Pōneke Gallery
17 day exhibition and performance season Toi Pōneke Gallery, 4 - 20 June 2015

Performance installation, collection of performance residue and rubble

Emerging materials, recordings, drawings, photographs, words, sonic compositions, dances, video footage, performance trace

You occupy my body by looking

Radio NZ interview with Sonia Sly
Naked Discourse

Toi Pōneke Arts Centre
61 - 69 Abel Smith Street
Te Aro, Wellington
Photography by Aurynn Shaw
Workshop session, The Pyramid Club
May 2015
voyeurist
Explorations in pole dance

Mashup by Betty Lightbulb
"Asylum Noir"
Photography by Rex Ostil Bustria
The Pole Room, November 2015
Sci-Fi Fantasy show, Fringe Bar
Wellington, New Zealand
coming up
more exciting art adventures to be had by
betty lightbulb
the naked brastrap
& virginia kennard

i'm selling shoes obviously - an homage to guy bordin
Mashup by Betty Lightbulb
Photography by Kowhai Montgomery
Teenage dreamer
Barbies are great
Because i love lip-syncing to Katy Perry
moral panic
Mashup by Betty Lightbulb
Photography by Fern King

Performance research by Virginia Kennard
What does it mean to look and to be looked at?

Reversing the Gaze

Looking in to look out, looking back

Photo graphy by Zoe Platt-Young
for Halleujah Society 2014

The Lady Garden

promiscuous makes an entrance

how do i look?

How do i look?

Sound::Gender::Feminism::Activism 2014

what is body positivity?

to and fro

in process

populating the gallery space with our performance practices
artspace, auckland, july - august 2014

Photography by peter jennings

Diary

SPEAKING AS A BODILY ACT [WORKING TITLE]

Soundscape by Emi Pogoni

notes on looking

Where am i looking if i am not looking at you?
That’s not me i see.

photography by aurynn shaw

notes on looking 2.0

Photo by Paradox Photography

notes on looking 1.0

Photography by
Myah Flynn

The Bloody Bride

You occupy my body by looking

Toi Pōneke Gallery

voyeurist

"Asylum Noir"

coming up

more exciting art adventures to be had by
betty lightbulb
the naked brastrap
& virginia kennard

i'm selling shoes obviously - an homage to guy bordin

Mashup by Betty Lightbulb

Teenage dreamer

Barbies are great

moral panic

Mashup by Betty Lightbulb

How do I look

Performance research by Virginia KennardWhat does it mean to look and to be looked at? Reversing the Gaze Looking in to look out, looking back Photo graphy by Zoe Platt-Youngfor Halleujah Society 2014

The Lady Garden

promiscuous makes an entrance

how do i look?

How do i look?

Sound::Gender::Feminism::Activism 2014

what is body positivity?

to and fro

in process populating the gallery space with our performance practicesartspace, auckland, july - august 2014 Photography by peter jennings

Diary

SPEAKING AS A BODILY ACT [WORKING TITLE]

Soundscape by Emi Pogoni

notes on looking

Where am i looking if i am not looking at you?That’s not me i see. photography by aurynn shaw

notes on looking 2.0

Photo by Paradox Photography

notes on looking 1.0

Photography byMyah Flynn

The Bloody Bride

You occupy my body by looking

Toi Pōneke Gallery

voyeurist

"Asylum Noir"

coming up

more exciting art adventures to be had bybetty lightbulbthe naked brastrap& virginia kennard

i'm selling shoes obviously - an homage to guy bordin

Mashup by Betty Lightbulb

Teenage dreamer

Barbies are great

moral panic

Mashup by Betty Lightbulb

Performance research by Virginia Kennard
What does it mean to look and to be looked at?

Reversing the Gaze

Looking in to look out, looking back

Photo graphy by Zoe Platt-Young
for Halleujah Society 2014

in process

populating the gallery space with our performance practices
artspace, auckland, july - august 2014

Photography by peter jennings

Where am i looking if i am not looking at you?
That’s not me i see.

photography by aurynn shaw

Photography by
Myah Flynn

more exciting art adventures to be had by
betty lightbulb
the naked brastrap
& virginia kennard