Special Salon Event
Richard Hancock & Traci Kelly
Nine Performances With Milk
12th November 2004


Nine Performances With Milk was a series of poetic and subversive actions. Through the universal and bodily nature of milk, the artists provoked the audience to reconsider their relationships to desire, memory and trauma.

An uncomfortable journey unfolded, as boundaries were breached and borderlines transgressed, leaving only contamination. Richard Hancock and Traci Kelly dealt with the uncontained, the discontained and the unfixed position.

Nine Performances With Milk restaged home as ‘unhomely’, scratching at polished surfaces and excavating memories; exposing sunken desires and closeted dreams. Questioning what one body can be to the next, from frame to frame, the work stands displaced and at risk.


Richard Hancock and Traci Kelly work collaboratively developing works of live art, performance and video, interrogating the inter-subjective space through an exploration of gender, desire and identity. They have performed as part of festivals and seasons across the UK, and have been remaking Nine Performances With Milk for various sites and contexts throughout 2004.

www.hancockandkellylive.com


home is a live art and performance production company which, researches, presents and promotes live events by contemporary artists in a range of spaces and contexts, with audience entertainment and participation as an underlying principle.
Our main space in London is a Victorian
semi in Camberwell, which serves as the
site for a programme of intimate salon evenings and larger scale performance events, based inside the unadulterated domestic surroundings of a family house.