Danielle Freakley

18th of October


Danielle Freakly is an Australian born artist. Her practise involves performance, sculpture, sound and text. However; she is very open to this and doesn't confine herself to certain materials. I found Danielles work quite peculiar as it reaches out to daily social communication and relationships.
Currently Danielle Freakley is working on a project she started in mid august called "Tell me what to Say". This project gets the audience to accidentally perform with her as it is in fact directed by what they want her to say. 
Although this may come across as a pointless performance I found it very interesting. Danielle was restricted, she couldn't open up and tell us about herself, when told what to say she manipulated in how she said something or with a vivid expression which made it clear her thoughts on that particular subject or statement. 
In my theoretical opinion "Tell me what to Say" did leave Freakley to be quite vulnerable the audience was taking over her right of free speech.
In the Question and Answer section after the lecture it was very awkward and uncomfortably intimate. It was forcefully opening the audience up to speak and to be interpreted.
One thing I noticed through out the whole morning was that it opened up a strange hidden part of your mind and things were said that maybe would not of been said in a conventional conversation between artist and audience.