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Mary Paterson is a Writer and Curator with a specialism in Live Art and performance. As a member of Live Art UK's 'Writing from Live Art', she is involved in promoting critical debate around performance based work. Mary's curatorial projects have explored performativity, political relations and fantasy. She has produced exhibitions of fine art and performance in the UK and Ireland, both independently and as Co-Director of the Curatorial group Art-3.
In a short film called Surviving in Shawbridge, a teenage boy from Glasgow tells the camera that he is often called a “black bastard”. Another boy remarks, casually, that the only asylum seekers who don’t get attacked on the Read on…
DVD, CD and 2 Booklets, Across the UK
1 January 2001 - 31 December 2006
Cheesy music? Check. Party nibbles? Check. Social awkwardness? Bucket loads. Christopher Green and Ursula Martinez’s Office Party Xmas 2007 at the Barbican Pit Theatre had all the necessary ingredients for Read on…
Pit Theatre, Barbican, London
12-29 December 2007
Apart from the turquoise-leotard wearing dancers who perform in them, each of the spaces chosen by Pablo Bronstein for his Plaza Minuet have one thing in common. These grand halls in New York’s wealthy financial district are all Read on…
New York - various venues, New York
7 November 2007
The black and white film in La Maison is a grainy journey through the rooms of a baroque country house. Shot on 16mm film in a single take, the camera’s gaze feels as continuous and fallible as that of a human being. As it moves through the Read on…
Saatchi & Saatchi, New York
12-17 November 2007
‘I know I’m Wow,’ said Carmelita Tropicana, an explosive Latina performer in a blue and gold jumpsuit, ‘But am I Now?’ Carmelita Tropicana was the first act in Wow and Now, a cabaret night of Feminist and Queer Read on…
Joe's Pub, New York
10 November 2007
The title of Harpstrings and Lava, the new film by the American artist Daria Martin, is taken from a nightmare that a friend of Martin’s had as a child. The nightmarish element is the conjunction of two seemingly impossible things – the Read on…
Tribeca Grand Hotel Screening Room, New York
4-19 November 2007
10 am on a chilly Saturday morning, and thirty or forty people are gathered at the top of a building on the Lower East side. We rub our hands together and pull our scarves round our necks to keep ourselves warm. All at once it starts Read on…
Artist's apartment, New York
3 November 2007
The lights go low. Conversations peter out. A single, clear, female voice resonates around Stephan Weiss studio. She is singing a Duke Ellington song and her lone voice – disembodied and unaccompanied – fills the hall and demands Read on…
Stephan Weiss Studio, New York
1 November 2007
There are some moments in life when I look round for the candid camera. One was in a visual culture lecture, when the lecturer played a recording of the sound of buttons being pressed. One was in a packed train at Waterloo Station, Read on…
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
30 October 2007
If you have to stand in a queue, make sure it’s an interesting one. The queue that snaked around the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum on Saturday night may have been long and dispiriting, but it was also one peppered with celebrities from the Read on…
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
27 October 2007
You might have heard of Annie Sprinkle as the former porn star and sex-worker turned performance artist, whose piece ‘Public Cervix Announcement’ invited audience members to look inside her vagina. You might also have heard of Read on…
Chelsea Theatre, London
17-22 September 2007
Grand Finale opens with an invitation to be absorbed into artifice. An elegantly dressed woman stands on stage wearing a muzzle like a lab animal. She’s a fiction, she tells us, and she asks us to make her up. Next the male performers Read on…
Shunt Vaults
4 April 2007 to 4 April 2007
Eve Bonneau is naked in an alcove, her eyes shut and a single, white bulb hanging from a mike stand in front of her body. We are in one of the smaller rooms in Shunt Vaults, a dirty cave where this strange, naked woman stands like an altar statue, Read on…
Shunt Vaults
4 April 2007 to 4 April 2007
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