Tamara Tyrer is a moving image installation and performance artist.
Using the medium of immersive film installation, Tyrer's work re-envisions and recuperates images of women from film, dance, fairy tale and mythological history. Through this lens she focuses on manifestations of the imaginary, the invisible spaces in our minds, bodies and inner worlds. Her work explores spatio-temporalities, movements and gestures that embody interior and mental states. The practice creates intermedial spaces between the invisible and visible, interior and exterior, dance, stillness and the moving image.
At the heart of Tyrer's practice is an exploration of female subjectivity and interiority. The work evokes an interior space-time, with filmic techniques such as slow motion, effects, sound and circular timescapes, which aim to reconfigure, vision and re-vision a female subjectivity. The films aim to create images as corporeal, sensory experiences through the elemental and filmic materiality. Through immersive evocations of female subjectivity, the work explores metaphysical states of being, that aim to move away from dominant phallocentric paradigms.
Tyrer has a PhD entitled 'Of Space and Time: Film and the Female Perfomer' from Central St Martins, London.
Tyrer's work has been exhibited at, amongst others, The Windows Gallery, Central St Martins (London), Fisura Experimental Film Festival (Mexico City), The Lethaby Gallery (London), The National Gallery (London), The Courtauld (London), The V&A (London), ERBAN, Galerie des Beaux Arts, Nantes (France) and The Rochelle School (London).
Tamara Tyrer has given papers, presented her work and taken part in panel discussions at: The House of Fairy Tale's 'The Great Imagining' 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 Symposiums at Central St Martins UAL, London.
As part of Tyrer'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. For Whoopee, Tamara directed and co-produced shows at, amongst others, The Blackpool Tower Ballroom, The Blackpool Grand Theatre, The Blackpool Winter Gardens, The V&A, The ICA, The Thames Festival, Fierce Performing Arts Festival (Birmingham), The Great Eastern Hotel, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Hackney Empire, The Porchester Baths and The Atlantic Bar.
Tyrer has written a chapter with Lara Clifton, entitled 'The Whoopee Club', in an upcoming publication (March 2025): Sex on Stage. Performing the Body Politic (Bloomsbury Academic). Edited by Alison J. Carr and Lynn Sally.
Tyrer is an Associate Lecturer at Central St Martins, UAL, London.
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