Rachelle Beaudoin and Eric Baus, Saturday, March 16, 2013
On Saturday, March 16 at 7:30 p.m. there was a performance by Rachelle Beaudoin and a reading by Eric Baus.
Rachelle Beaudoin performed three live pieces: “Locker Room Tease,” “Absolute Control,” and “Booty Pop.” These pieces relate to the body, intimacy, and figure-shaping using various clothing and underwear as props.
Rachelle Beaudoin is an artist who uses video, wearables, and performance to explore feminine iconography and identity within popular culture. She attended the College of the Holy Cross and holds a Master’s degree in Digital+Media from Rhode Island School of Design. She has exhibited at Intimacy: Across Digital and Visceral Performance Goldsmiths London UK, the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi Finland, Low Lives 3 and Itinerant Festival of International Performance Art, Queens NY. Rachelle is currently an artist-in-residence at Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO.
Eric Baus, featured in the above video, is the author of three books: The To Sound (Verse/Wave Books, 2004), Tuned Droves (Octopus Books, 2009), Scared Text (Center for Literary Publishing, 2011). A new book, The Tranquilized Tongue, is forthcoming from City Lights Books. He recently wrote a series of commentaries “Notes on PennSound” for Jacket2 ( https://jacket2.org/