The fools journey
Come with me, through this door she said.
But I am not allowed in there.
Why not?
It’s dark and I don’t know the way.
Yes, you do. And anyway, no one knows the way.
Then why are the walls so big and the doors so heavy?
To make you think they do.
…
I am not sure I can fit all of this in there. What if they notice?
So, what if they do? You don’t have to say anything.
So, I just carry it?
You can hide it in here if you like.
Come with me, through this door she said.
But I am not allowed in there.
Why not?
It’s dark and I don’t know the way.
Yes, you do. And anyway, no one knows the way.
Then why are the walls so big and the doors so heavy?
To make you think they do.
…
I am not sure I can fit all of this in there. What if they notice?
So, what if they do? You don’t have to say anything.
So, I just carry it?
You can hide it in here if you like.
This work draws on the potential role of the artist in residence to construct quiet disruptions, granting permission to transgress.
The artist in residence is typically an individual who temporarily works within, and responds to, a specific community or institution. My research embraces the residency within a social and community-based framework and acts as a catalyst to further explore how this concept has been co-opted.
This residency took place within my own domestic, work and educational setting, approaching the everyday as a space to theatrically manifest the unconscious and unseen barriers to accessing institutions as a working-class woman, living with and through non-normative circumstances. The work draws on lived, everyday experiences and documents the remains of the performance. These remains can be pushed, pulled, tried on an performed within this exhibition space, exploring alternative interactions and possible meanings.
Assembled in the spirit of Brechtian theatre, making visible the illusion of theatre in order to encourage critical engagement, the work is an exploration of societal expectation, how we occupy space and offers means to playfully intervene in this field. Navigating ideas of access and participation by confronting the relationship between art and the everyday, it is concerned with the domestic space as well as how we develop ways to coexist in communal spaces.
The artist in residence is typically an individual who temporarily works within, and responds to, a specific community or institution. My research embraces the residency within a social and community-based framework and acts as a catalyst to further explore how this concept has been co-opted.
This residency took place within my own domestic, work and educational setting, approaching the everyday as a space to theatrically manifest the unconscious and unseen barriers to accessing institutions as a working-class woman, living with and through non-normative circumstances. The work draws on lived, everyday experiences and documents the remains of the performance. These remains can be pushed, pulled, tried on an performed within this exhibition space, exploring alternative interactions and possible meanings.
Assembled in the spirit of Brechtian theatre, making visible the illusion of theatre in order to encourage critical engagement, the work is an exploration of societal expectation, how we occupy space and offers means to playfully intervene in this field. Navigating ideas of access and participation by confronting the relationship between art and the everyday, it is concerned with the domestic space as well as how we develop ways to coexist in communal spaces.