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The performance artist and ‘sex clown’ shares her list of (mostly) wholesome
clips: the cutest children, the best dog and the glitziest aerobics workout
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I am a person who believes in laughter. I work in live art. My main medium is
performance. In art-making I revere legacies of border-riders, defiant
sexualities, witches and rascals. I have been known as a sex clown and I am
proud to invoke laughter.
Some of the best laughing is out of absurdity. Laughter erupts and massages.
Purrs and murmurs. It erodes calcified, rational, top-down thinking. It appears
mysteriously, sometimes even when we think we should not laugh. My grandmother
Betty used to say to my brother and I: “You’re laughing now, you’ll be crying in
a minute!” We need our tears and hope; I wouldn’t be laughing so hard if it
wasn’t so deeply serious.
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