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		<title>About</title>
				
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	Publishing under the name T. J. Bacon and creating artwork
using the name tjb, Dr Tōmei June Bacon is a trans-femme pansexual person with
hidden disabilities. An interdisciplinary visual artist, scholar and author,
she is also the founder and artistic director of Tempting Failure. 
She is keen to collaborate with artists, scholars and activists who foreground
transdisciplinary applications of artistic practice with social engagement and
particularly welcomes the consideration of strategies that advocate for
transgender inclusion and celebration.

BackgroundBorn in 1980, she has exhibited artwork internationally for over 20+ years.
From 2001 to 2008, this work spanned writing, theatre direction, public
interventions, club performances, live art, cabaret, and visual art. From 2009,
refining her craft through experimentation she began focusing on solo practices
in noise and performance art, exploring phenomenological perception,
researching and establishing the notion of a multiplicity of self/s, while her
curatorial, directorial, and producing work delved into themes of risk and
failure. In 2012, she founded Tempting Failure, an international performance
art festival that has supported over 800 artists to date. By 2017, her solo
practice started to align with her emerging understanding of her gender
identity, sexuality, and disabilities. This began by unpacking indoctrination
from growing up under the UK’s oppressive Section 28 law, which had erased
queer representation in education, deeply impacted her formative years,
delaying her self-acceptance and exploration until much later in life. From
2017 to 2019, her solo work helped her navigate, express, and reclaim her
identity, embracing a queer phenomenological approach to her perception.
Between 2020 and 2023 her live practice transitioned to include painting and
sculpture, alongside ongoing academic and multimodal writing. During this
period, she became more comfortable with her authentic sense of being a
trans-femme person, appreciating her pansexuality and the power of no longer
running from her disabilities. Today, her interdisciplinary practice spans
performance art, visual art, and curation; it engages with transgender studies,
queer theory, crip theory, and queer phenomenology. Despite facing personal and
systemic adversity and being the victim of incidents of hate crime for living
her life as herself, her current work explores hope amid oppression. She
advocates for a radically queer reimagining of traditional phenomenology,
curation and academia. And, through the lens of queer acts of hope, she explores
transdisciplinary practices that move beyond trauma, while acknowledging its
existence and the oppressions that cause it, to advocate for positive
possibilities for the future.
PhD Supervision EnquiriesIf you are interested in being supervised for your PhD, Dr T. J. Bacon is open to applications via two institutions. The Guildhall School of Music and DramaThis Postgraduate Research Programme has a distinctive focus on research in, through and for the performing arts. As a world-leading conservatoire, they welcome research projects that integrate creative practice with scholarly enquiry. A unique aspect of the researcher experience at Guildhall (UK) is the year-long training programme during the first year of study which equipes PGR’s with the tools to vision and realize a project. This is in addition to the supervisory team, a bespoke set of advisors who have the appropriate combination of academic and artistic expertise to supervise your work as it develops. Apply Here&#38;nbsp;Trans Art Institute for Creative ResearchThis is validated by Liverpool John Moores University (UK) and delivered by the TransArt Institute (USA). This is a low-residency programme (supporting global participation) focused towards transdisciplinary practice/research. The Creative Research PhD is for everyone who desires to: bring their praxis to a significantly new level in terms of creation and articulation; to contribute beyond their particular field to a broader artistic/academic context; to teach at all levels, transdisciplinarily or in more than one field; to continue to exhibit, publish, curate, and perform in and beyond our international community. This programme draws together its international cohort at key points in the year and supports them with tailored expertise.
Apply Here&#38;nbsp;
Important Note
When applying to either insitution it is very important to name Dr Tōmei June Bacon as part of your preferred supervision team. 
Profiles: 
TransArt Institute 
Guildhall School of Music and Drama


Access Document&#38;nbsp;An access document is available upon request in advance of working with new
partners. Access documents are used by disabled artists/producers to ensure
that their needs are supported wherever possible. 
This document will help to cover important issues prior to beginning a working
relationship, allowing any given institution/gallery/organisation/funding-partner/allies
and collaborators to feel confident and comfortable in their interactions with
each other.


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		<title>Writing</title>
				
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		<description>WritingDr Tōmei June Bacon’s academic research and other writing is published under the name T. J. Bacon. She does this to draw distinction between her visual art practice and her writing. However she acknowledges the blurring between both through framing her written practice as an artist-philosopher. She is particularly interested in exploring writing that queers traditions of scholarly correctness, disrupting what is appropriate “form”, and will write to explore multimodal frames of expression; enhancing both the capture of phenomenological encounters and the way in which we experience reading them.


	Peer Reviewed Authored Books
Bacon T.J., 2025. The
Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art, Taylor Francis Routledge, London.


Bacon T.J., 2022/2024. An Introduction to the Phenomenology of Performance Art, Intellect Books, UK.&#38;nbsp;


Bacon T.J., 2017. Experiencing a Multiplicity of Self/s (thesis), University of Bristol.
Co-Authored Peer Reviewed BooksBacon T. J., Andronikidis I., Cremers P., Damhof L., Fryer N., Guadagni A., Gudanowska A., Gulmans J., Kazemier E., Komorowska K., Kononiuk A., Kozłowska J., Loukopoulou K., Magruk A., Mazur R., Mulhern K., Papaterpou A., Pasta G., Profitiliotis G., Rollnik-Sadowska E.,&#38;nbsp; Senna P.d.,&#38;nbsp; SiderskaJ., Zadeh K. R., Walaszczyk L. 2023. Replay your futures: training manual high school facilitators. Łukasiewicz Research Network - Institute for Sustainable Technologies. Random, Poland.
Bacon T. J., Cremers P., Damhof L., Guadagni A., Gudanowska A., Gulmans J., Kazemier E., Komorowska K., Kononiuk A., Kozłowska J., Magruk A., Mazur R., Papaterpou A., Pasta G., Profitiliotis G., Rollnik-Sadowska E.,&#38;nbsp; Senna P.d.,&#38;nbsp; SiderskaJ. 2022. Replay your futures – Labs for exploring undiscovered pathways. Łukasiewicz Research Network - Institute for Sustainable Technologies. Random, Poland.


Peer Reviewed Books Edited by T. J. Bacon
 

Bacon T.J., 2025. The
Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art, Taylor Francis Routledge, London.


Peer Reviewed Chapters Edited by T. J. Bacon


Intentionality of a Moment: Three Stages of a Reduction By Stuart Grant DOI: 10.4324/9780429200571-3 

The Phenomenology of the Visceral Response By Lynn Lu DOI: 10.4324/9780429200571-8 

Being Shattered: Fragility and Our Psychogenesis By Kelly JordanDOI: 10.4324/9780429200571-11 

Tainted Blood? Thinking Blood and Bleeding with Race By Amber Jamilla Musser DOI: 10.4324/9780429200571-16 

Bleeding Pulsing Biding Time: Durational Performance and Phenomenological Unmuting in the Work of MC Coble By Raegan Truax DOI: 10.4324/9780429200571-21 

Reclaiming the Body: Blood, Trauma, Protest By Roberta Mock DOI: 10.4324/9780429200571-22 

Experiential Traces: The Aesthetic of Absence By Chelsea Coon DOI: 10.4324/9780429200571-13 

In Conversation: Mirabelle Jones and Chelsea Coon By Chelsea Coon DOI: 10.4324/9780429200571-14 

In Conversation: Paola Paz Yee and Victor Martinez Diaz By Chelsea Coon DOI: 10.4324/9780429200571-15 

In Conversation: Jelili Atiku By Chelsea Coon DOI: 10.4324/9780429200571-17

Peer Reviewed Articles
and Chapters in Edited Books 

Bacon T.J. 2025 (expected). Hidden Disability: A Queer Phenomenology of
Disorientation: a queer phenomenology. In: Ladron De Guevara V. G., Mock R.,
Young H., The Routledge Companion to Bodies in Performance; Routledge.
Bacon T.J. 2025. The fluidity or
transmutability of borders held in the lived body of trans and non-binary
bodies. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance
Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
 

Bacon T.J. 2025. The phenomenology of
bloody pain. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in
Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
 

Bacon T.J. 2025. The phenomenology of
bloody care. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in
Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
 

Bacon T.J. 2025. The phenomenology of
bloody disruption. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in
Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
 

Bacon T.J. and Coon C. 2025. The
phenomenology of bloody performance art! In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The
Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
 

Bacon T.J., Coon C. and Haghpanah-Shirwin, B. 2025. In Conversation: Franko B and Andre Molodkin. In: Bacon T.J. and
Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis
Routledge.
 

Bacon T.J. 2025. In Conversation: Louis
Fleischauer and Ernst Fischer. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of
Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
 

Bacon T.J. 2025. Blood Rituals – A
Provocation to Queer a Phenomenological Soil. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The
Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
 

Bacon T.J. 2025. In Conversation: Hermann
Nitsch. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance
Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
 

Bacon T.J. 2025. In Conversation: Mike
Parr. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance
Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
 

Bacon T.J. and Jordan, K. 2025. In
Conversation: ORLAN and Marina Abramović. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The
Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
 

Bacon T.J. 2025. In Conversation: tjb and
Ron Athey. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in
Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
 

Bacon T.J. 2025. In Conversation: Marissa
Carnesky and Poppy Jackson. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of
Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.&#38;nbsp;


Bacon, T. and de Senna, P. 2023. Performance for futures (Intellectual Output
3). in: de Senna, P., Gulmans,
J. and Kononiuk, A. (ed.) Replay Your Futures: Training Manual for High School
Facilitators Radom, Poland Łukasiewicz Research Network - Institute for
Sustainable Technologies. pp. 54-74.

Bacon, T. J. and de Senna, P. 2022. Performance for futures (Intellectual Output
2). in: Replay your futures:
Labs for exploring undiscovered pathways Radom, Poland Łukasiewicz Research
Network - Institute for Sustainable Technologies. pp. 189-229.

Bacon, T. J. 2022. The argument for queering 'The origin of the
work of art'. in: An
introduction to the phenomenology of performance art: SELF/s Bristol, UK
Intellect. pp. 243-246 DOI:
10.1386/9781789385304_5

Bacon, T. J. 2022. Embodied experience. in: An introduction to the phenomenology of
performance art: SELF/s Bristol, UK Intellect. pp. 19-88 DOI: 10.1386/9781789385304_1

Bacon, T. J. 2022. The intersubjectivity and intercorporeality
of noise and sonic arts. in: An introduction to the phenomenology of performance art: SELF/s
Bristol, UK Intellect. pp. 139 – 177 DOI:
10.1386/9781789385304_3

Bacon, T. J. 2022. The rapture and rupture of the lived body. in: An introduction to the phenomenology of
performance art: SELF/s Bristol, UK Intellect. pp. 93 – 139 DOI: 10.1386/9781789385304_2

Bacon, T. J. 2022. Introduction to phenomenology and SELF/s. in: An introduction to the phenomenology of
performance art: SELF/s Bristol, UK Intellect. pp. 1-19.

Bacon, T. J. 2022. An introduction to the phenomenology of
performance art: SELF/s. Bristol, UK Intellect.

Bacon, T. 2020. T. J. Bacon reflects on CHTHONIC. in: Guttenplan, Z. (ed.) Emergency index:
an annual document of performance practice New York, US Ugly Duckling Presse. pp. 286-7.&#38;nbsp;
Bacon, T. 2018. Psychogenesis series. in: Gluzman, Y. and Cleary, S. (ed.)
Emergency index: an annual document of performance practice New York, US Ugly
Duckling Presse. pp. 116-117.&#38;nbsp;
Bacon, T. 2018. Foreword [The furthest point in space is also inside
our body]. in:
Dolphin-Krute, M. and Martinez, C. C. (ed.) No one thing is the root of all
anything: phases and performance of the imminent by Chelsea Coon Los Angeles,
CA Not a Cult. pp. 1-6.
Peer-Reviewed Articles in Academic Journals
 

Bacon T.J., 2011. ‘Traces of Being: a document of absence in
words.’
activate, Issue 1, Volume 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 1-19.


	Inspirational Music&#38;nbsp;


Non-Peer Reviewed Articles
Bacon T. J. Bean A., 2020. ‘CHTHONIC reflection.’ Come Hell or High Water Zine.

Bacon T.J., 2018. ‘Tempting Failure in 2018,’ Exeunt.

Bacon T.J., 2018, ‘Public money should fund art for everyone, even if some hate it!’ The Stage.&#38;nbsp;

Bacon T.J., 2016. ‘Top Pick by Thomas John Bacon, Artistic Director Tempting Failure 2016,’ This is Unbound, Live Art Development Agency.&#38;nbsp;

Martin A., 2016. ‘Tempting us to the Edge of Art,’ Croydonist.

Muehlemann N., 2016. ‘Challenging Spaces: Access and Performance Art – A roundtable discussion at Tempting Failure festival,’ Disability Arts Online.&#38;nbsp;

LaGaccia D., 2016. ‘Coverage of TF2016’, Incident Magazine, New YorkBacon T.J., 2014, ‘Interview with Thomas John Bacon’ Don’t Panic Online.&#38;nbsp;

Alexander F. K., 2014. ‘Theatre of Risk,’ Exeunt Magazine.&#38;nbsp;

Martin D. D., 2014. ‘In conversation with Thomas John Bacon,’ Exeunt Magazine.&#38;nbsp;

Gardner L., 2014. ‘What makes a great theatre festival?,’ The Guardian.&#38;nbsp;

Bacon T.J., 2012. ‘Why aren’t people writing about theatre in the south west?,’ Nom De Strip, Plymouth University.

	
Non-Published Conference Contributions
 Bacon T.J., 2024. Queer Acts of Hope (line of enquiry launch) as part of De-Centre for Socially Engaged Practice and Research. Guildhall School of music and Drama, London.
Bacon T.J., 2023. Performance for Futures Symposium. Featuring Pedro de Senna, Nic Fryer, Katerina Loukopoulou. Middlesex University, London. 
Bacon T.J., 2017. Lunchtime Crit, Turf Projects Gallery, London. 

Bacon T.J., 2016. In-Utero Roundtable, Featuring: Thomas John Bacon, Anne Bean, Esther Neff, Lois Keidan, Chelsea Coon, Adam York Gregory &#38;amp; Gillian Jane Lees - Live Art Development Agency, London. 

Bacon T.J., 2015. Evolving a Curatorial Practice, Featuring: Thomas John Bacon speaking as FK Alexander, Association for Performance Art Berlin (APAB) - GlogaAir, Berlin. 

Bacon T.J., 2014. Paying Artists: programming performance platforms - the challenges and successes, Chaired by Kerry Irvine (ScenePool / Bath Spa University), Featuring: Thomas John Bacon - Tempting Failure , Hannah Clark - Bristol Biennial, Simon Day - Theatre Bristol, BE Festival, &#38;amp; Plasticine Men, Tania Harrison - Latitude Festival, Adam Young - LAB, Joseph Young - a-n Artist's Information Company. Tempting Failure, The Island, Bristol. 

Bacon T.J., 2014. Bodily Boundaries: duration &#38;amp; limits of Self, Chaired by Dr. Paul Clarke (University of Bristol / Uninvited Guests), Featuring: Thomas John Bacon, Hellen Burrough, Chelsea Coon &#38;amp; Kali Rose. Tempting Failure, The Island, Bristol. 

Bacon T.J. (chair), 2013. Perceiving a Lived Body through Transgression, Play, Failure &#38;amp; Duration (Space), Featuring: Tom Bresolin, Dani Abulhawa, Vera Chok, Ernst Fischer.&#38;nbsp; Tempting Failure, The Island, Bristol
Bacon T.J. (chair), 2012. Sound/Music/Noise in Performance Art, Featuring: Ron Athey, Leif Elggren, Vicky Langan and Holly Ingleton. Extreme Rituals, Arnolfini, Bristol. 


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		<description>ExhibitionsThis is a list of select highlighted commissions and residencies and is not an exhaustive list of the artworks made by tjb. Following this, is a list of curatorial work in her capacity as an Artistic Director.&#38;nbsp;

Commissions40 - August 2020 - Center for Arts, Design + Social Research; Boston, USA

CHTHONIC film and written reflection in collaboration with Anne Bean - June 2020 - Come Hell or High Water Zine; London UK

CHTHONIC - June 2019 - London Festival of Architecture, Bow Arts and Raw Labs; London, UK

Lines in the Landscape Residency - April 2017 - Sidney Nolan Trust; Presteigne, UK

PRESENCE/s in collaboration with Joke Lanz - December 2015 - Ausland; Berlin, Germany

AIR in collaboration with FK Alexander (Sound: Kylie Minoise) - August 2015 - Forest Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe Festival; Edinburgh, Scotland

 PASSION:flower in collaboration with Ernst Fischer - July 2015 - Latitude Festival; Suffolk, UK

PERCEPTON:Lab - June 2015 - Mobius; Boston, USA

SELF/s Portrait - June 2015 - Panoply Performance Lab; Brooklyn NYC, USA

FIRE in collaboration with FK Alexander (Sound: Kylie Minoise) - 2015 - Buzzcut Festival, Pearce Institute; Glasgow, Scotland

The Lived Body: REDUX (Sound: Lee Chaos) - November 2014 - Tempting Failure, The Island; Bristol, UK

PASSION:flower in collaboration with Ernst Fischer - May 2014 - MPA, Das Theater der Zukunft; Berlin, Germany

SELF/s Portrait - October 2013 - HFWAS, Birmingham Cathedral, UK 
SELF/s Portrait - May 2013 - MPA, ACUD Gallery; Berlin, Germany

The Lived Body (Sound: llewyn máire) - March 2013 - Buzzcut Festival, Old Shop; Glasgow, Scotland

[RE]authoring through Sacrifice - March 2012 - Buzzcut Festival, The Glue Factory; Glasgow, Scotland

Traces of Being: IDENTITY EXISTENCE OBJECT (Sound: llewyn máire) - March 2011 - Seven Arts; Leeds, UK

Traces of Being I - June 2010 - Act Art 8, Metalworks; London, UK

Psychosis ii (Sound: Stephen Hughes) - November 2009 - Camden People’s Theatre; London, UK

Purification - &#38;nbsp;2009 - Rifrazioni Festival; Anzio, Italy

Tintarella Di Luna in collaboration with Ernst Fischer and Helen Spackman - 2009 - Rifrazioni Festival; Nettuno, Italy

Psychosis i - February 2009 - Camden People’s Theatre; London, UK

Erosion - 2008 - Sacred Festival, Chelsea Theatre; London, UK

Book of Blood in collaboration with Leibniz - 2008 - Sacred Festival, Chelsea Theatre; London, UK

 
Curation &#38;nbsp;


A night of performance art in aid of Mind - 2023 - Venue: Ealing OPEN Gallery 
A night of performance art in aid of Ealing Foodbank and SOS MEDITERRANEE - 2022 - Venue: Ealing OPEN Gallery

at/tempting failure - 2020-1 - Venue: online only [COVID-19 pandemic]
Tempting Failure - 2018 - Venues (in alphabetical order): Braithwaite Hall, Croydon Council Chambers, David Lean Cinema, Front Room, Matthews Yard, Surrey Street Market, Turf Projects, Whitgift Centre and Young Roots
Tempting Failure - 2016 - Venues (in alphabetical order): Barberette, D:NA, Hackney Downs Park, Hackney Showroom, HM Home Office, Matthews Yard, Turf Projects and Theatre Utopia &#38;nbsp;
Tempting Failure - 2015 - Venue: Latitude Festival
Tempting Failure - 2014 - Venues (in alphabetical order): Bear Pit, Castle Park, Edwardian Cloakroom, The Island Bristol and Peoples Republic of Stokes Croft 
Tempting Failure - 2013 - Venue: The Island Bristol 
Tempting Failure - 2012 - Venue: Performance Space
Live Art for Amnesty International - 2009 - &#38;nbsp;Venue: Meantime Gallery
Live Art for Amnesty International&#38;nbsp;- 2008 - &#38;nbsp;Venue: Gloucester Docks
 Formative Professional Work

Before establishing a body of work in curatoiral practice, visual art and performance art, tjb began her professional carerr in theatre direction and choreography, with solo and ensemble performance across cabaret, theatre and live art. The following is a selection of curated credits from this period. &#38;nbsp;


	Directing


The Failed Method - 2012 - Olympus Theatre

Mountain Language by Harold Pinter - 2012 - Taylor Theatre

New World Order by Harold Pinter - 2012 - Taylor Theatre

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare - 2012 - Llanthony Priory

Polar Bears by Mark Haddon - 2011 - in aid of Mind

Phaedra’s Love by Sarah Kane - 2010 - Taylor Theatre

100 by Christopher Heimann - 2009 - Taylor Theatre

Celebration by Harold Pinter - 2008 - Taylor Theatre

The Gas Heart by Trsten Tzara - 2008 - Taylor TheatreButoh Choreography/Dance&#38;nbsp;

Requiem - 2013 - Choreography tjb, Olympus Theatre; Bristol, UK

Absence - 2012 - Choreography tjb, Taylor Theatre; Gloucester, UK

Mined - 2011 - Choreography tjb, Taylor Theatre; Gloucester, UK

Products of Conception II - 2008 - Choreography SilverSmith Dance Co. Nightingale Theatre; Brighton, UK

Products of Conception - 2006 - Choreography Lorraine Smith Laban; London, UK

Forest of Shadows - 2005 - Choreography Marie Gabrielle Rotie, Chisenhale Dance Space, London, UK

	Ensemble/Cabaret/Live Art
[meditation] - 2007 - Wired Up Festival; London, UK 

the abject scream - 2007 - Whitechapel Gallery; London, UK
 
avarice + envy - 2007 - Fuck the Back Row Festival; London, UK 

pi (version 3) - 2006 - Battersea Arts Centre; London, UK 

Frightened Ones (Dresden Dolls Tour) - 2006 - &#38;nbsp;Cambridge Junction; Cambridge, UK 

The Keeper (Dresden Dolls Tour) - 2006 - The Astoria; London, UK

Club Class - 2006 - Dir. FrenchMottershead, Tate Modern; London, UK 

where did all the colour go? - 2005 - Goldsmiths; London, UK 

Deep End - 2005 - Dir. Geraldine Pilgrim, Corridor Co. Marshall Street Baths; London, UK

what AKTION ii - 2003 - &#38;nbsp;site specific: Islington, London, UK 

wounDED - 2002 - East End Collaborations Platform; London, UK 

what AKTION i - 2002 - site specific: London Bridge, London, UK 

Abjection Monologues &#38;amp; WOTSpring - 2001 - site specific: Tower Hamlets, London, UK


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		<title>Introduction: Trans Hope</title>
				
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		<description>2024-. TRANS HOPE
	CW: contemporary transgender lived experience.Commencing in 2024, she returns to the elemental materiality that has been consistent throughout her practice to began a new phase drawing upon an avocational interest in queered applications of esoterica. A protective invocation for the trans+ lived experience emerges to queer the linear perception of time and challenge seemingly immovable oppressions faced by herself and her community. 


Foregrounding esoteric measures of time such as through Queer Moon Magick (invoking the divine feminine) and Seasonal Sabbats, the trans+ lived experience is protected and elevated. While linear time, which can seem to dictate a loss of agency forcibly upon trans+ bodies, becomes challenged as the dominant measure for any trans+ experience.&#38;nbsp;


Her current artistic practice is therefore an act of resistance where hope is held in the queered esoteric: change is real, but time is not. Time is only a reflection of the seasons of change. Here the artist will respond to the queer elemental materiality of Fire, Water, Earth, Air, and Spirit across an interdisciplinary practice that celebrates elemental rebirth for trans+ people through mediums such as painting, sculpture, and ritualised acts of performance, protection, endurance and hope.

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		<title>Introduction: Honouring Survival </title>
				
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		<description>2020-2023 HONOURING SURVIVAL
	CW: Artworks during this period feature reference to mental health and transgender lived experience.
As the world suffered the trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic, many found the imposition of geographical lockdown shifted the way we understood and experienced our daily life. Grief and loss was a constant for all but a need for hope emerged.  


2020 marked tjb’s 40th birthday and in the year following CHTHONIC, she continued to openly acknowledged the beginning of her journey through transition. Expressions of her own authenticity were foregrounded as she became increasingly comfortable with her gender, sexuality and hidden disabilities. Her artistic practice through this period honoured surviving the trauma that had forcibly repressed and almost destroyed her in her formative years through Section 28. And though suffering would continue to be present in the lives of everyone through the pandemic, this was an important period to centre and ground herself in queer hope. 


Her practice during 2020 to 2023 would evolve across painting and sculpture, alongside her ongoing and expanding work as an author and scholar (under the name T. J. Bacon) exploring queer phenomenology and multimodal forms of writing.


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		<title>Love// Rage//</title>
				
		<link>https://tjbacon.com/Love-Rage</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2022 09:10:48 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>T. J. Bacon &#124; tjb &#124; Tōmei June Bacon</dc:creator>

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		<description>Love// Rage//Love// Rage// would manifest over 5 variations. Each capturing tjb’s love of working in oil as a process that challenges the artist with patience and captures an often extended period of time in her process, whereby she may begin an image years before finally settling upon a conclusion. For tjb, oil painting is durational performance, capturing movement and immobility. Love// Rage// is a good example of this, commencing prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, the artist first making marks in 2019 and documenting an evolution of frustration and turmoil from the external world up against the love, care and support in their private life.&#38;nbsp;


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		<title>Black Cross Series</title>
				
		<link>https://tjbacon.com/Black-Cross-Series</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2022 12:20:38 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>T. J. Bacon &#124; tjb &#124; Tōmei June Bacon</dc:creator>

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		<description>Black CrossThe black cross represents survival. Originating for tjb in 2016 and emerging into xis practice post-residency at the Sidney Nolan Trust in 2017. It would not be exhibited in any form until its use in CHTHONIC in 2019. Where, at the end of 17 hour durational action, the ash and bone remains of 500 knuckles were bound and sealed into the black cross motif and left as installation.&#38;nbsp;

The images of the before and the after were created over an extended period of thought and reflection on tjb’s “in/visible” hidden disabled lived experience.


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		<title>Hung Body '20</title>
				
		<link>https://tjbacon.com/Hung-Body-20</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2022 10:11:42 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>T. J. Bacon &#124; tjb &#124; Tōmei June Bacon</dc:creator>

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		<description>Hung Body (’20)Reclaiming a period of difficult mental health, tjb returned to an earlier image from thier practice from over a decade prior to create a celebration of survival in this large scale painting on canvas.&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp;


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		<title>Manifesto</title>
				
		<link>https://tjbacon.com/Manifesto</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2022 10:44:43 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>T. J. Bacon &#124; tjb &#124; Tōmei June Bacon</dc:creator>

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		<description>


	Manifesto for the performance artist as artwork


THE ARTWORK IS DEAD ← THE ARTWORK IS FOUND THROUGH PRESENCE/S&#38;nbsp;←&#38;nbsp;


THE ARTWORK IS TEMPORARY ♡&#38;nbsp;THE ARTWORK FEELS&#38;nbsp;♡&#38;nbsp;


THE ARTWORK IS IMMEDIATE&#38;nbsp;︎&#38;nbsp;


THE ARTWORK SURVIVES&#38;nbsp;︎ THE ARTWORK IS PERMANENT ◇&#38;nbsp;THE ARTWORK IS AN ARGUMENT︎


THE ARTWORK EXISTS IN EVERY/ONE AND NO/ONE →&#38;nbsp;


THE ARTWORK IS UN/LOVED&#38;nbsp;♡ THE ARTWORK IS UN/SEEN︎&#38;nbsp;


THE ARTWORK RISKS △ THE ARTWORK HAS HAD A BAD DAY︎


THE ARTWORK HAS BEEN FUCKED AND IT LIKES IT ◁&#38;nbsp;

THE ARTWORK IS A FADING MEMORY ◇&#38;nbsp;


THE ARTWORK FAILS&#38;nbsp;︎&#38;nbsp;


THE ARTWORK IS AN ANECDOTE ︎&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp;


THE ARTWORK&#38;nbsp; HURTS ◇ THE ARTWORK IS UN/HEARD&#38;nbsp;︎&#38;nbsp;


THE ARTWORK IS A FADING MEMORY ◇&#38;nbsp;


THE ARTWORK IS [NOT] AN INVESTMENT ︎&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp;


THE ARTWORK IS AILING ︎&#38;nbsp;


THE ARTWORK SAYS SOMETHING OR NOTHING AT ALL&#38;nbsp;︎ THE ARTWORK IS IN THE FUTURE/PAST/PRESENT&#38;nbsp;︎&#38;nbsp;


THE ARTWORK CONTRADICTS ︎&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp;


THE ARTWORK IS A CONVERSATION ◇ THE ARTWORK IS MIS/REMEMBERED&#38;nbsp;︎&#38;nbsp;


THE ARTWORK IS DISORIENTATING ︎&#38;nbsp;


THE ARTWORK HAS NO/POINT ◇&#38;nbsp;


THE ARTWORK IS ALIVE&#38;nbsp;︎ THE ARTWORK IS SELF/S&#38;nbsp;︎


	T J Bacon 
© 2022 Intellect Ltd.
Info: An Introduction to the Phenomenology of Performance Art


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