On Tuesday 1 April the Front Café and Gallery in Lyneham hosts Canberra’s first Tableaux Vivants Showcase and Peepshow, presenting the art of Min Mae, Canberra’s Tableaux artist, along with works inspired by her efforts. The night will also feature live music and further living installations in the form of Peep Shows.

Tableaux Vivants are an art form that combines performance with still life imagery. Combining narrative and the contemporary context it is usually performed in a series and presents the audience with living images to interpret as they will. As the Tabelaux artist writes “I choose to create in the realm of Eros because it inspires and thrills me. Tableaux Vivants is what I have found in the quest for an erotic art form that does not degrade or exclude. I found a place for my passion, and many beautiful hearts and hands assist in its delivery.”

Set to the music of singer/songwriters Andi Kerwin of the Andi & George band and the saucy Alice Cottee, along with the villainous musician Grahame Thompson, the evening will be a showcase of photography, sketches and spoken words inspired by the three previous Tableaux Vivant performances hosted at the Front and the Corinbank Music Festival. With roving performances from the Gadjo Family and The Horny Vagrants, songs from the sordid comedy trio Lettuce Play and the electro smut merchants Babyfreeze, as well as the burlesque of Liberty Belle, the audience will be transported to a medieval Carnivàle.

The audience will also be treated to an entirely new series of living installations in the form of Peep shows, as they are taken into unexpected realms through the collaboratory efforts of Min Mae and her performers. “Amazing things happen at Tableaux Vivants, the muses themselves become conduits of inspiration and long dead artistic passions are reborn.”

So, for a mid-week feast of the extraordinary, the seductive, the unexpected, that will stimulate every sense, come to the Front Café and Gallery at 1 – 2 Wattle Street Lyneham, on Tuesday 1 April.