As if by magic - work in progress
Kindly part-funded by Jerwood Arts and Freerange.
Our idea is to use ‘Vanishing’ as a jumping-off point for exploring particularly women’s experiences of caring – for others and for themselves. We were interested in how COVID disproportionately affected women in terms of increased domestic labor, but also in feminist thought that positions vanishing as an act of resistance. Ideas of spectacle, trickery and magic will be generative for developing performance and film, and material that relates to what it means to be a mother and an artist. We are interested in setting up an experience and a space that embodies some of the contradictions at play.