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What has Involuntary Dances achieved? Well, it's achieved an increase in Rita Marcalo's bank balance. It's also been "controversial" enough to get her at least two articles on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ website and any amount of exposure in the blogosphere. Exposure and money, isn't that what every artist wants?

Just read Jo Verrent's account of Rita Marcalo's event and whilst many may be disappointed she failed to have a seizure, I believe that wasn't the point of the exercise. Art is never neutral, therefore one has to judge its function; in my view this was just a petty bourgeois "freak show" where the person with an impairment employed her body for exploitative reasons and the middle class idiots at the Arts Council followed like Little Bo Peep's sheep.

Emma:

Thanks, for the information regarding the story about, strobes & lights....


=Dennis Junior=

Fewer than5% of people who have E are actually photosensitive. I don't recall having read anywhere that Rita Marcalo is photosensitive. Therefore, there are two possible reasons for the performance to include the alleged trigger of strobes: 1) Theatrical effect. 2) Theatrical effect.

As someone who has had epilepsy all their life I cant believe anyone with epilepsy anyone would prostitute their condition like this. Its certainly not art! Baggierobert hit the nail on the head when he called it a 'Freak Show', thus reducing the audience to the same level as the fascinated gawpers who congregate around anyone unlucky enough to have a grand mal siezure in public. So she made money out of this little stunt, despite not having a siezure. Maybe she could do something laudable and actually benifitial to people with epilepsy and donate the money to epilepsy research.

What puzzled me was the headline to the above article. I mean, in view of the fact that being photosensitive is rare, would it not have been more realistic to entitle this piece SLEEPLESS, BUT NO SEIZURE. Perhaps it might have been an even better idea to call it AED STRIKE, BUT NO SEIZURE. Why are these non E-Types so obsessed with strobe lights? You'd think they'd know better on Ouch! Strange old world....

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I am very much delighted to read this article.AS Baggie Robert says Art is never neutral, therefore one has to judge its function.

I'm not sure if this link will be permitted, but we'll give it a try.

At least this info is authentic.

Does anybody know what happened to the second and third parts of this "trllogy"? Surely it would be worth while for Ouch! to report on them. How about it, Emma?