ADIPOSE

Adipose' is a body art opera that calls into question and re-examines the subject of fat. It is also a cautionary tale. It is an exploration of the dystopian present. It is a comedy.
A woman in the occident can be many things but the most important thing she must not be is fat. Fat is feared, people are repulsed by it, they are repulsed by themselves when they perceive themselves as fat. Sometimes people can't even bring themselves to say the word fat and the words, plump, curvy, ample, shapely or just 'big' replace it.
The cyborg extended body of the internet age is even more redundant if it is fat. The pressure on female performers today to conform is getting worse and worse. Even Michelle Obama has been accused of being a man because she doesn't conform. To be a woman in the public eye is to court instant disapproval and disdain unless your measurements and proportions are 100% in accordance to unrealistic digital and cyber images of the perfect flower of femininity. We now compete not only with each other, but also with images of women who don't, can't, never did, never will, never could exist.
Imagine how seductive it would be then if in a faustian pact, you could transform yourself into the vision that our society wants to see. You could have it all with one mephistophelean wish. But what if that wish goes too far? You will lose yourself completely and dissolve away.
This is the dilemma and tragedy of my anti-herione, the opera singer,  'Adipose' as she eats and sings and runs and  eats and sings and runs and dies.
First performed at 'THE VOICE AND THE LENS FESTIVAL 2' at Rich Mix in London 2013, its a through composed live art opera, with live performance and singing against film,  with a flesh screen and a lot o