Woman on Fire (2019)
Hymn to Bloodletting, Sacrifice of Becoming (2019)
two experimental audio performance works
Composed, performed, recorded, and audio designed/ edited by Anna Goodman Herrick.
First presented: Radio Bloomsday, WBAI NYC (2019)
Invited to create and perform experimental 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.
Hymn to Bloodletting, Sacrifice of Becoming explores gender, sexual & reproductive rights.
Woman on Fire is an experimental 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 work incorporates Dadaist and William S. Burroughs cut-up practices, deconstructions of documentary forms, and explores early DJ remixing with records, applied to investigating text as narrative music.