A Hole Is
a Hole
photography by Aidan Zamiri
London Performance Studios presented A Hole Is a Hole, a solo performance by Lily McMenamy. Drawing on the arts of clowning, mime and avant-garde theatre, A Hole Is a Hole explored the construction of the female performer as an endlessly metamorphosing and multiplying vessel.
Staged in front of a mirrored backdrop, A Hole Is a Hole took shape through quickfire vignettes and tableaus, occupying infinite egos, crossing continents, studios, nightclubs and forests in order to stage the subconscious. Travelling through a swarm of personae, the performance asked who is subject to our aesthetic and erotic drives, when the relations between artist and model, monster and maker, are thrown into the blender of one singular body.
A score composed by Felicita accompanied the performance. This presentation was co-produced with Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi. With special thanks to Than Hussein Clarke and Clown Consultants Peta Lily and Liv Ello.
This event was organised by Lily McMenamy, as part of the Associate Artists Programme.
Dates and Times
Tue 3 September – Wed 4 September 2024
Location
Studio 1, London Performance Studios
03/09
04/09
Creative Team
Created and devised by Lily McMenamy
Direction by Evie Fehilly
Music & Sound Design: felicita
Costume: Monique Fei
This performance contained strong language.
About
Lily McMenamy (she/her) is a model and theatre maker born in the US living in London. She holds a diploma in physical theatre from L'École Jacques Lecoq and a Masters in Performance Making from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work appropriates and transforms languages, archetypes, and gestures in order to disarticulate the performance of marketplace femininity and to celebrate the grotesque as a vehicle for freedom. McMenamy’s work has been presented at Cabinet Gallery, London (2021), and the Volksbühne Berlin where she was resident artist in 2018 amongst others. Her writings have been featured in CURA magazine and she is a regular contributor to Marfa Journal.
Photography
Nick Ash & Emile Clarke