Artist Alison J Carr (also known as Allie) talks to Daniel Sumption of Peakrill Press about her work and about her book The Night, currently crowdfunding.

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Here's what we talked about:

• 00:55 Alison's name
• 01:37 How we know each other
• 01:56 "Just For Fun" performance art karaoke/cabaret, with WebsterGotts and Robin Close
• 03:26 Dance, and being a dancer
• 03:58 Her restaging of 1939 cigarette cards, and how the questions it raises have led to further work
• 05:07 "staging the self" and her photographs of theatre spaces
• 06:45 Her book "The Night" and the events which led to it, including the murders of Sarah Everard and George Floyd, and the #metoo movement
• 12:05 Alison's own "discordant" relationship to the night and risk
• 13:36 More about the book The Night
• 17:19 The book Sex on Stage – Performing the Body Politic which Alison edited
• 18:53 Alison's night work as a club stripper and her writing about it on the Spiritual Stripping Substack
• 23:49 Her current work, including Intimacy Stages and Tiller Girls
• 28:33 Outro

Find Allie's work on her official website, and her writing on both her "day" Substack Joy Development and her "night" Substack Spiritual Stripping.

Visit the Peakrill shop for more Peakrill strangeness.

Many thanks to Arfa Collier for the music.

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Podcast transcript:

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