Tamara Tyrer is a film and video installation and performance artist.

Tamara’s practice explores female subjectivity and interiority. The practice examine female gesture and movement, often exploringintermedial spaces between stillness and motion, dance and cinema, narrativeand non-narrative.

Using the medium of immersive film installation, and also live performance, her work re-visions and recuperatesimages of women from film, dance, mythological and cultural history. Her work evoked the imaginary, the fictional spaces in our minds and inner world. Her work explores how this imaginary is influenced by the external and internal imagery around us – films, fantasies, stories, myth and fairy tale. Tyrer often re-visions what could besaid as familiar or cliched imagery, but by doing so draws attention to thatimagery and what is under the surface.

Tyrer’s practice examines a female interior space-time through the use of such filmic techniques as slow motion, sound, circular timescapes and loops in order to explore and re-vision a female subjectivity. The films aim to create images as corporeal, sensory experiences through movement and sound. Through immersive and visceral evocations of female subjectivity, the work aims to explore alternative visualities that move away from a phallocentric paradigm of occularcentrism andobjectification.

Tamara has just been awarded a PhD entitled 'Of Space and Time: Film and the Female Perfomer' at Central St Martins, London.

Tamara's work has been exhibited at amongst others The Lethaby Gallery, The National Gallery, The Courtauld, The V&A and The Rochelle School.

Tamara has given papers, presented her work and taken part in panel discussion at, amoungst others: The House of Fairy Tales' The Great Imagining Event at Gavin Turk's Studio, London, 'Revisiting the Gaze' Conference at Chelsea College of Arts, 'ErotICA' at The ICA,'Style Lounge' at The V&A and The Spotlight Symposium at Central St Martins UAL, London.

As part of Tamara's practice she also created Whoopee, a pioneering and radical immersive and fantastical site-specific experience, juxtaposing a nighclub, live art and dance with burlesque, cabaret and vaudeville traditions.


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