Handbag Readings, performance at Fete Encounter, TRUCK festival, September 2007 Delpha Hudson Adopting the character of failed palm reader Madame Marina Sac-a-mano, Delpha will 'read' the handbags (or for those without this essential item, the contents of pockets...). What can the objects that we choose to carry about with us, tell us about ourselves, our present, our past, even our future....? Sac-a-mano is an extreme, fictitious caricature of a charlatan, gypsy seer. Sac-a-mano is a parody and slips between reality and fiction as the 'act' is at best amateur. The intentional slippage between the character and the artist, plays with performativity, theatricality, and live art. Whilst intentionally humorous, dealing with peoples' things is a delicate, and private transaction. Publicly exploring what people own, why, and what it might say about them, has currency with a body of work in which I explore the relationship between people and things. What do the objects we choose, and value say about us? What are the deeper psychological meanings and messages about 'our' objects? Are they transitional, comforting, do they constitute who and what we are?
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