Woman on Fire (2019)
Hymn to Bloodletting, Sacrifice of Becoming (2019)
two audio works
Experimental audio performance works, Radio Bloomsday, WBAI NYC (2019)
Invited to create and perform text and audio performance work for event featuring John Lithgow, Marc Maron, Wallace Shawn, Alec Baldwin, and Jerry Stiller, who read works by James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. Curated and Hosted by Caraid O’Brien and Janet Coleman.
Written and performed by Anna Goodman Herrick:
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Radio Bloomsday, Father’s Day, Sunday, June 16th, on WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City and live online worldwide at wbai.org, hosted by Caraid O’Brien and Janet Coleman. Investigating the roles of fathers, dead and alive, absent and present throughout Ulysses, including a tribute to Joyce’s former secretary playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett
Hymn to Bloodletting, Sacrifice of Becoming is written in response to gender, sexual & reproductive rights.
Woman on Fire is a cut-up/mashup poem I composed from the words of, about, and relating to Lucia Joyce (pictured), James’ Joyce’s daughter, an experimental dancer reviewers and critics expected to eclipse her father in being known for her genius and creativity. Misdiagnosed and mistreated for her mental illness, she laughed at Carl Jung who tried analyzing her, “As if that man should try to get hold of my soul.” Incarcerated in an asylum in England, land of her colonizers, she set fire to her room.
This works incorporates Dadaist and William Bouroughs cut-up practices, documentary principles, and explores early DJ remixing with records, applied to text as narrative music.