| Eva Weaver
has been devising and performing durational, time-based and site-specific
solo-pieces over the past six years. Eva’s performances are
challenging, yet humorous and are informed by her experience of being
German and living in the UK, dealing with issues of cross-cultural
identity, stereotyping, historical trauma and belonging. Her work
is visceral, highly visual and richly layered with a strong emphasis
on the body as site, drawing on concepts of the grotesque body, hybridisation
and the Burlesque to explore possibilities of transgression and to
unmask and deconstruct cultural stereotypes. Drawing from myths, history
and autobiographical material, she uses bi-lingual language, voice,
song, video and performance-action as well as the transformation of
materials into sculptural objects, artefacts and costumes. Although
dealing with uncomfortable issues, humour is a crucial element and
always present in her performances. Eva’s work has been
performed at Live Art events and platforms such as East End Collaborations
and Betsy’s Salon (London) ‘Tract’ (Penzance), The
Basement and in spaces as varied as Hoxton Hall, St Peter’s
church, Vauxhall, Fields Gallery in Brick Lane and at Clubs (Duckie’s
for ‘Euroshame’). Eva has an MA in Performance from Queen
Mary University, London.
Performance
History
| 2006 |
The Bread of Those Years,
a solo performance using ‘BREAD’ as a focus through
which issues of cross-cultural identity, history and belonging
are explored employing bi-lingual storytelling, song, sound,
action, video and sculpting from bread. Performed at The Basement,
Brighton, Betsy’s Salon, London, Cockpit Theatre, London
and Burton Taylor Theatre, Oxford.
Mermaid’s
Calling a site-specific piece devised for ‘Tract’,
Penzance
The German Bread Oracle
Created for “Euroshame’-
Duckie’s Club night, London. |
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| 2005 |
When Time Folds An exploration into
the joys and pains of commuting including repetitive and increasingly
fast movements to a metronome, paper-cutting and German songs
at ‘Clock Works’ – Live Art in a shop window,
Brighton Fringe Festival. |
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| 2004 |
Strip! 4,3,2,1 A performance
of four strip-pieces exploring the potential subversiveness
of striptease through elements of the Grotesque, Hyper-feminine
and humour shown at East End Collaborations, London, OMSK at
Area 10, and Sirens, Brighton. |
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| 2002 |
Skeleton Woman – a Public
Ritual Performances at Fields Gallery,
Brick Lane, London, Vauxhall Open 2002, St. Peter’s Church,
Vauxhall, London and Cockpit Theatre, London.
Durational performances over five consecutive days. Skeleton
Woman concerned issues of cultural and personal trauma
and history in regards to Eva’s German heritage, particularly
the Jewish Holocaust and the German witch burning. Audiences
were invited to reflect on themes of death, trauma, transformation
and how we deal with the wounds of history. |
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| 2001 |
Skeleton Woman Four-hour durational
performance at Westminster College. |
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| 2000 |
Skeleton Woman London
Biennale, 291 Galleries, Hackney |
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| 1997 |
The Goddess Series Multi-media
project with slide-projection and video. |
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Workshops
/ Education
| 2006 |
Head To Head, Brighton
with Stacy Makishi. Mentoring by Helen Paris from Curious. |
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| 2005 |
Head to Head, Brighton
with Rose English |
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| 2004 |
Conceptual Vaudeville, as
part of the International Workshop Festival, London
Rose English
Costume in Live Art, DIY2 Live Art Development
Agency, London lead by Amy Sharrocks Cutting
it Up, London, four-day workshop around William Burroughs’s
collage technique and performance with Julia Lee Barclay
Striptease, two courses at London School of Striptease
with Jo King Self Sign: The Artist as Material,
workshop with Joshua Sofaer, Tate |
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| 2003 |
Summer school Centre of Performance
Research (CPR) Aberystwyth with Guillermo Gomez-Pena,
culminating in a performance. |
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| 2002 – 2004 |
MA in Performance at Queen Mary
University, London with Lois Weaver, Ali Campbell,
Dr Martin Welton, Joshua Sofaer, Maria Delgado. |
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| 2001 |
Still Live into Live Art with Jolanta
Jagiello and Stuart Mayes,Stratford The Outsidedness
of Things, Summer School with Kneehigh Theatre, Cornwall
Performance Lab, monthly experiential performance workshops
with Gary Stevens, at Artsadmin, London |
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| 2000 – 2002 |
MA in Art and Media Practice at Westminster University,
London. |
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| 1995 – 1997 |
Postgraduate Diploma in Art Psychotherapy
at Goldsmith’s College. |
Contact
www.evaweaver.com
info@thebasement.uk.com
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