Michelle Horacek

Still/Desire

Hands
Touching eggs.
Eggs
Rolling over body.
Sex to mouth – Awaken
Stillness. Desire. Reaching. Open.

This work aims to explore bodily perception through repetitive actions, gestures and dialogue of the female body with eggs. Canadian-Czech Performance Artist Michelle Horacek will work with 144 eggs. She will lie next to the eggs, naked, covered in white body paint. Horacek will work with single eggs, rolling them up and down her torso between her mouth and her sex. She will use her mouth and hands to explore the tension and texture of life potential within the eggs. She will describe the exchange between her body and the fragility held within the eggs.

This performance uses what is set as a podium for mystery to open. By describing an arched body in contrast with the tenderness of lips and flight motions, there is some beautiful discovery of a quiet feminine force…

Michelle Horacek trained as a classical actress in Canada and the Czech Republic. Her practice now includes devised theatre, multi-media works, digital video and investigates the body in relation to time and place. In 2006 Michelle completed her MA in Visual Performance at Dartington College of Arts in Devon.

Michelle has worked in various parts of Canada, New York, Prague, Kyoto, Edinburgh, and the Southwest of England. She is currently based in London.

Commissioned by Body Parts Festival 2007, hosted by The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.