Doll Yoko
Doll yoko aka Francesca da Rimini
Dr Francesca da Rimini (she/her) lives and works on Kaurna land in South Australia. She is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and performer who also works as a precarious academic researcher. Her literary and performative art practice oscillates between solo and collaborative work. Paying careful attention to visual style and language, the works play with identity in-flux, location and knowledge-making. In 1999 Francesca da Rimini was awarded an Australia Council New Media Fellowship. She has made numerous online and installation artworks that explore madness, gender, sexuality, power and the prophetic voice, including the international award-winning dollspace. She collaborates with VNS Matrix (1991 ongoing), intercontinental art group identity_runners (1999 ongoing), Bodyweather dance company deQuincy Co (2000-2007), Mongrel/Harwood’s Netmonster (Perth 2005), Bumpp Projects/Sydney Roller Derby League’s Bloodbath (Sydney 2010), Shu Lea Cheang’s Moving Forest (London 2012), Hexecutable II for Beyond The Interface (London 2015), and In Her Interior’s (with Virginia Barratt) Tender Alembician’s Suite (New York 2019). da Rimini’s installation Lips becoming beaks (12,000 nautical leagues) and performance (tongues of quickened silver) was locally researched with birdwatchers and Boandik elder Ken Jones for the Women at Work show (Mt Gambier 2017). Current projects include Open Sorcery Poetry with identity_runners, and Tell me what you see outside with In Her Interior. Francesca was inspired by the social and ecological urgency of the themes driving _this breath, and the opportunity to have poetry live outside its normal confines.