Off to teach a visiting lecture/seminar with my mate Rebecca Louise Collins on the MA in Performing Arts Practices and Visual Cultures at the University of Alcalá (Madrid) and Reina Sofia Museum!
Read more about the program HERE !
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT EVE SPEAKS
"...Eve (of Garden of Eden and Original Sin fame) offered one-to-one confessionals in a dimly lit corner of the bar, asking visitors about their regrets and guilty secrets in exchange for apples with “embrace original sin” and her autograph written on their skins. Ali Matthews, aka The Bitchuationist, made the process of seducing her visitors into forgiving our own (and her) sins thoroughly engaging, and played neatly on the idea that in the modern world, the fallen woman possesses a power and appeal that would – were the Bible ever replayed across current media formats – ensure Eve herself a long career of personal appearances, celebrity interviews and opportunistic autobiographies, biopics and record contracts fit to make the likes of Madonna blush at the opportunism...in the one-to-one context of a seemingly casual exchange across a bar Matthews makes all this very convincing"
- Wayne Burrows, Hatch Nottingham
"To get to the source of gender unbalance you might have to go all the way back to the Book of Genesis, which Ali Matthews has done in her sassy cabaret Eve Speaks (pictured below). "If Eve never came back to Adam, got the hell out of Eden and took up waitressing, and raised a snake baby on her own - I wonder what stories that would bring", she coos while gently strumming a ukulele. For all his handsome attributes, Adam is ultimately incompetent, and now the seductive serpent seems to have caught desiring Eve's attention. Blasphemous perhaps but Matthews's voice is heavenly, her performance daring and relevant as, when a Dalek-voiced God insists she disclose her sexual intimacies, a chord is struck with recent controversies of male control over female bodies."
- Musings in Intermissions blog (Ireland)
"in tune with the moment" - Peter Crawley (Irish Times)
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