MUFFIA C.V

March 2010

Performed at the lunch of UK FEMINISTA at the Women's Library, London

Engagement with the public on the 7th of March for International Women's Day (see photos in current activities)

January 2010

Presentation at a Long Table event for 'Heteronormativity' forum

Queen Mary University

 

October 09

Performed at The Iguana Bar and the greenroom

 

August 09

Edinburgh Fringe Festival - Performed 6th - 30th August

Just the Tonic Caves, Cowgate

July 09

Performed at Gay Shame, Brixton Academy

 

May 09

Performed at a Red Room event at the Bethnal Green Working Man Club

Filmed for a France 4 documentary called 'Global Resistance'

 

April 09

Featured in the Guardian and on BBC Manchester radio  

 

February 09

'New Hands, New Hymen' guerilla street performance

 Loads of Stand up gigs for our political satire 'Tight Women'

 

December 08       

     

Guerilla street performance - 'Dancing in the Streets'

Oxford Street, London and the Arndale Centre, Manchester

 

First Stand up gig, London

 

November 08           

Performed 'Tight Women' at Ladyfest Manchester and at The Lab Collective, London

 

October 08               

Debuted 'Tight Women' at greenroom's Vaudeville 100^th Anniversary, Manchester

 

We are writing a show about different female identities and how they are influenced by mainstream culture. We are performing 'Tight Women' in the style of a chat show .

 

September 08           

Guerilla street actions 'Pit Stops'

Adding hair and comments to adverts                

 

July 08                      

The Muffia: Under Construction

Hazard Festival          

Manchester

 

We dressed as builders and ogled men for the day, had tea breaks with the tabloids, waltzed on construction sites and itched our genitals in public. No concept. We wanted to question male and female behaviors in public spaces and the work place. What would be considered undesirable in women? Why do women need to be desirable? We wanted to discover new responses. This is part of a bigger project in which we are interviewing builders about stereotypes and about their attitudes to women, men and other builders. We are making a documentary from our findings. Our aim is to try and question if the stereotypes of builders are justified in particular their views on women.

  

May 08                       

Art Interrupters                                            

East End Collaborations       

London

 

We went to this event in the guise of a fragmented fe(male) identity exposing our fake menstrual blood. We felt frustrated at this event and felt that the questions we were asking in our practice had no relevance or meaning in this setting. We decided to react to the work and attendees at the event. We asked people the following questions:

 

-    Is live art dead in a theatre when it could be alive on the streets?

-    Who are artists talking to and what about?

-    Has live art just become institutionalized?

-    What did you think of the piece you saw?

  

May 08                      

Guerilla street performance 'FHM Girls'                

London

We dressed up as FHM (For Him Monthly) girls, dumbing it down and posing as sexually as we could on the streets or whilst talking to members of the public. We wore fake homemade merkins under our short skirts and exposed our real armpit and leg hair at every opportunity. When we received a lot of attention from passers by and comments we would flash our hairy muffs and armpits. Generally we got a smile or a laugh unless we showed off our armpits, which mostly caused disgust.