Gyrl grip
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The gyrl grip is a performance art group established in 1998 by Llewyn Máire and Lisa Newman. It has had over 30 public showings in the past five years.
Notable performances include:
- Proud to Put Out - a text-based performance series - Portland, Oregon by 2 Gyrlz
- Participation in the Black Sun Gathering - Washington, USA, 2002
- Full Nelson 5 - Los Angeles, California, USA, 2003
- FluXconcert PDX - 2003
- Las Bás - Helsinki and Turku, Finland, 2004
- PSi#11 - 2005
[edit] About the work
Using video, movement, spoken word, sound sculpture, conceptual and text-based performance, endurance, and experimental music, the gyrl grip explores new possibilities of communicating what is incommunicable.
The themes of the work deal with: issues of oppression, the politics of identity and the influence of power, loss of culture through assimilation, (as seen in "War Pig" and "Hedge School") hybridization of cultures out of the need for survival, political and sexual resistance and exploitation, (as in Lisa Newman's "Kobe" performance), obsession and divinity.
