Potter is a contemporary performance artist and writer who creates and embraces a whole new attitude and technique too reading and writing. She is well-known to write and recite dramatic sequences focussing on the witty and tricky elements of life whilst bringing a dark satire to the experience. Her readings are performed in an unusual and uncomfortable format for the audience - she slumps over onto the floor stuttering her readings and only making eye contact with the ground in eyelash distance. She likes to consider the articulation of her joints as well as her words embracing any mistakes from grammatical, timeline and speech errors enjoying her ‘own failings of articulation’. Her writing is never proof-read and she often enjoys the instability of typing her works on a typewriter.
One of her performances, “Posh man’s Pet” was read in fragments and repetitively recurrently from torn up bits of paper as she tried to piece the segments of writing back together. We hear slurred mismatched readings of the same pieces in different orders whilst she moves pieces of torn up A4 around until they are as one and the audience hears all these recurring words collide into this powerful reading.
Watching this performance was so powerful as all this confusion which relates to day to day life suddenly comes together and makes sense. This relates to mine and, I’m sure, sure most people's lives, experiences, and memories enormously. Potter says that she embraces all elements of fragmentation from memory to speech and writing and I feel like this relates to another level as it brings peace to humanity’s confusion of the past and present.
Moreover, she brings fluidity to writing which traditionally is perceived as static: her writing equates to tumbling form and seems like it is always moving and under construction; it’s never safe and can’t be displayed.