"Nicholas Girls shows the entwined and mutually sustaining dynamics of humour and anxiety. As a very small child I did not get this joke. Having no sense of shame about my genitals, I could only interpret the punch line as good advice for avoiding awkward grazes while tree climbing. Shame in my body and fear of being photographed or recorded came later, instilled through jokes. Painfully aware of humour as a disciplinary force, I still can’t resist the libratory joys of wielding it myself."
Nicholas Girls (2009)
Other works by Claire Harris
Claire Harris
It’s the Only Way I’m Getting up This Fucking Hill (2012)
The artist uses her phone to film herself walking, propelling her exhausted body home.
Fantasing / Bek Coogan / Claire Harris / Sarah Jane Parton / Gemma Syme
A Party Political Broadcast (2017)
A work from the Party Political Broadcast series presented in association with The Physics Room.
