JAZMINE ROSE PHILLIPS & COURTNEY RODGERS

Dead flowers all piled up.

sell me your salt and i’ll give you mine.

Are the flowers dead or dry?

Will this body be honest when you view it?

Licking Lilies, the inside of my mouth.

Where bacteria and love sit on teeth

Will this mouth be wet when you are deciding what it all fucking means.

Inside of my mouth is an interactive exhibition by Jazmine Rose Phillips and Courtney Rodgers; with film, sounds of secrets and shells imitating bodies performing human. Jazmine and Courtney have worked together with photo series’, film and unravelling. Exploring the relationship between the chanciness of performance art, political discourse, discomfort, and the dream state of capturing it forever.

Jazmine Rose Phillips (Auckland/Tāmaki Makaurau, NZ) a performance Artist, Sound designer, and producer. They seek to embrace the grit and beauty of the human experience. Their creations use; pleasure, pain, sound, spoken word, film, ritual and the body to evoke and embody transparency and healing. Often motivated by the destruction we all take part in as humans.

Courtney Rodgers (Gippsland, Australia) is a queer film maker and photographer. Using imagery to connect to reality and step away from distortion of self-view. Their main medium is film photography, working with the body and interpersonal relationships to things, places, and the wider self to share an understanding.

This piece was performed as part of Performance Art Week Aotearoa in 2021.
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