More Funny Feelings

Artist and performer Lisa Watts presents three new works titled More Funny Feelings involving video installation and two live performances: Crying Sport, Cry and Running machine.

More Funny Feelings tours to Glasgow, Colchester, Leeds, Belfast, London, and Gloucestershire.

More Funny Feelings - One of the triptych - Cry - A performance whereby an actress will cry for you as a live performance. You will watch her go in and out of crying for half an hour while she reads an academic lecture. Crying Sport - Who can cry the most over one day? Lisa Watts also filmed two actresses as they went in and out of different states of crying. Can you cry all day? Can you cry on cue? What makes you cry? Are you willing to pass on your emotional baggage on to a friend, so that you can have a supporter for you to cry? Crying is for people who have nothing to do. The Hollywood 'tear-jerker' movies of the 50s were described as 'wet wasted afternoons'.

Lisa Watts is an artist who has shown internationally, and developed a wealth of original and acclaimed work. Her art practice has included training with an escapologist, signing up with a local modelling agency, and holding a residency in a gym.

Over the past eight years, Lisa Watts has shown performative work at the Serpentine Gallery, London, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, Hull Timed-Based Arts, Hull, Prema Arts Centre, near Bristol and The Greenroom, Manchester as well as Dublin, Ireland, Hamburg, Germany. Her film work has been shown globally, Canada, Bombay, Mexico, and broadcast in several countries in Europe.

Lisa Watts

More Funny Feelings next seen at Tramway, Glasgow

Video installation - Fri 19 – Sat 27 April - Tue – Sat: 12-8pm, Sun: 12-6pm

Live Performance on - Thur 18 April, 7pm