Photographer: Something Human

The Pudding Club
Performed at The Proud Archivist London on Halloween as part of the Cross Cultural Live Art Project 2014 curated by Something Human

This performance referenced ancient rituals related to the Celtic festival of Samhain, which influenced many of the rituals associated with the celebration of Halloween today. Some of these rituals were deployed to foretell the identity of one’s future spouse or the number of children women would have. With reference to her native Ireland Walsh playfully repeated these archaic rituals in her ‘pie kitchen.’ In doing so she considered the continuation of outdated patriarchal norms that limit women to motherhood and domesticity in our contemporary times. In particular, the performance considered Ireland’s anti-choice laws which were criticized by the United Nations Committee of Human Rights in 2014 for treating women as a ‘vessel and nothing more.’

Materials used: 20kg of flour, eggs, apples, water, hand mirror and hairbrush