Sheila Ghelani
Covet Me Care For Me
Hovering just outside the lab, she thought; “I’ve had it, I really have. I’ve been made to feel so mixed up, so messy, so undignified, so unclassified, and it’s a load of old codswallop…I’ve had it, I really have…I’ve got to do something, I’ve got to try and make them see.” And, mustering all her strength in she marched, announcing loudly, “that’s it lads. Tools down. I’m taking over. Dash the bloody consequences, dash them.”
Sick to death of being placed ‘outside’ Covet Me, Care For Me is an attempt to produce and stage a series of covetable ‘mongrel’ objects, with the intention that they will be wanted, taken home and cared for by the viewer… Objects to be talked about, placed in pride of place and above all else desired.
Well anyway…
Would you like to take one home?
Will you wear me? Will you care for me? Will you covet me? Will you love me? Will you let me be part of this history of yours, this so called history of yours, this history you own, the history of the world.
Sheila originally trained in contemporary dance, and worked as a choreographer, dancer and teacher for several years before making the crossover into Live Art/Performance.
Her solo practice addresses ideas that stem from notions of mixing and ‘being mixed’. She is interested in hybridity, crossings, blood, skins, skinning, carefully controlled experiments, well-oiled machinery, colour, genetics and love.
Sheila also works collaboratively and is a longstanding member of Pacitti Company and a Blast Theory Associate artist. She has toured and performed nationally and internationally for both companies and regularly lead artists’ workshops for Pacitti Company in the UK, and abroad. She also teaches in Academic contexts.
Originally commissioned by PACITTI COMPANY for the SPILL Festival of Performance, London 2007.