Uppsala Municipal Theatre
"By the way, My name is Peggy-Sue. My dream is recently to have my own Cooking Show on TV" my story
This is a quote from Jenny Grönvall's homepage www.trailerheart.org, where the artist pretends to be a rather sloppy young woman, expressing herself without limits and taste. Peggy Sue Svensson in fact turns out to be a charming creature, and her homepage a nice place to dwell on! It is a work where duration plays an important part. Grönvall has continued her impersonation in different media since 1998. I think it may have affected media in Sweden to accept lives of self expressing women as being of common interest. Today it is possible to see Dolly Parton or Viktoria Silvstedt talk about themselves in Prime Time television. Not that their lives or attitudes were ever of a second grade quality, but in the public sphere they traditionally tended to be treated with ridicule and looked down on.
Thus Jenny Grönvall works with a subtle irony, with a thought provoking long lasting after effect.
At Friction II, we were presented with a talk and slide show where Peggy Sue presented herself and her view on Art. But, I am sorry to say it, I fell asleep during the performance and lost it almost completely. As in a dream I can recall Peggy Sue mentioning her three monochromes, while pointing at a photography which showed practically nothing of the works. Of course this was very embarrassing to me. Not Peggy Sue's slides, but me falling asleep. To make it evermore agonizing I was not alone, but together with to ladies who laughed at me afterwards. Perhaps my reaction was a delayed effect from the shock of experiencing a bearded young man impersonating a woman performance artist the night before, or perhaps it was no reaction on the artwork at all, but simply the consequence of having a late dinner after a hard days work.
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