Lydia
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I am a London-based artist and performer. I am interested in exploring the body in various ways, using it as a source of artistic expression and pushing its boundaries to discover its limitations. My background is in dance and circus, and I'm inspired by the macabre, the grotesque and the sublime. I perform sideshow acts, piercing shows and neo-burlesque. I'm interested in gender and sexuality, and in juxtaposing ideas of femininity with the visceral and obscene. |
| Interests | circus, art, suspension, piercing, tattoos, showgirls, feminism, body-based art, fetish, s&m, philosophy, erotica |
| Favorite movies | The Night Porter, Night of the Hunter, Blue Velvet, Brazil, Pi, The Red Shoes, Fight Club, Barton Fink, Blade Runner, Delicatessen, Videodrome, The Cook, The Thief, His wife and her Lover, In the Company of Wolves, The Devil's Backbone, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Betty Blue, The Libertine, The Pillow Book, La Reine Margot, Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead |
| Favorite music | The McCarricks, Rykarda Parasol, Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, The Dead Brothers, The Tiger Lilies, Lydia Lunch, Kate Bush, Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Miranda Sex Garden, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Einsturzende Neubauten, FM Einheit, The Cramps, Foetus, Godspeed you Black Emperor, Swans, Cranes, Recoil, Meg Lee Chin, Underworld Nicole Blackman, Benedict Edwards, Civil Wars, Michael Nyman, Ryuchi Sakamoto, Christian Fennez |
| Favorite books | The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, And the Ass saw the Angel by Nick Cave, 1984, Animal Farm, Keep the Aspidistra Flying and Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell, Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, The Outsider by Albert Camus, Exquisite Corpse by Robert Irwin, The Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, Geek Love by Katherine Dunn, Nights at the Circus and The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, Bigot Hall by Steve Aylett, Paradoxia by Lydia Lunch |