Fiona Templeton; London

Series No.: SM Templeton

ISBN: 978-0940650343, Pages:

Scottish Literature, Poetry

A Sun & Moon title.

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"...the comparison that comes to me is that of a feminist version of some of Beckett's best writing: not exactly Waiting for Godot... but rather, Molloy, because of the... complicated and anguished relationship with mundane objects and daily gestures. As Godard put it, 'It is not anxiety that is complex and things simple, but anxiety that is simple, and the things complex.'"

--Berenice Reynaud, High Performance (in a review of The 7 Deadly Jealousies)

Born and raised in Scotland, Fiona Templeton co-founded London's Theatre of Mistakes in the 1970s, and lived for many years in the East Village of Manhattan.

Green Integer published her play about the French sculptor Camille Claudel, Delirium of Interpretations.

Her poetry has appeared in Partisan Review, Sun & Moon, Zone, Musics, and Wallpaper.

Her performance-art works Thought/Death, Against Agreement, Defense, The 7 Deadly Jealousies, You-The City, and Experiments in the Destruction of Time appeared at the Whitney Museum of Art, the Red Bar, Art on the Beach, the Performing Garage, Franklin Furnace, and elsewhere. She co-wrote Elements of Performance Art with Anthony Howell. In 1983 she was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for performance.

In 2000, she founded The Relationship, a performance-art group based in both New York and London.