swoosh lieu
frankfurt
For the process and research, we explored the interactive and digital rehearsal tool “Nota” (www.nota.space) and created the digital space “A Room of Our Own“.
An infinite room in which you can zoom in and move through with your mouse. If you lose orientation, just click on “Center” at the top. Google Chrome is recommended.
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write,” wrote Virginia Woolf in her 1929 essay ‘A Room of One’s Own’. Over 90 years later this allegory of financial and spatial independence is more relevant than ever. While we experience a feminist backlash during the crisis caused by the Corona virus, women are repeatedly finding that doors are being closed to them and their spaces are becoming smaller or being taken away entirely. In an audio-visual adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s text, Swoosh Lieu inquire into what the spaces must look like where we can emancipate ourselves and find self-fulfilment. What means do we need to use to talk about and imagine these spaces in order to actually allow them to come into being? Based on these questions, the camera moves through the empty theatre space during lockdown, exploring places and perspectives, visibilities and volumes, points of access and limitations. In between, it dives into real and virtual imaginary spaces, disappears into green screens and disco balls – until it finally takes off to a new horizon, beyond which there is room for everyone and we are not alone.
Links
Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own | Online Text
(Quarantined in) a Room of One’s Own
An office of one’s own: how work from home magnifies inequality
Gender in the Times of Global Sabbatical
The Impact of COVID-19 on Female Researchers
Learning from the Virus – Paul B. Preciado
Lockdown Theatre (3)/ The emptiness of the empty theatres — Schauspielhaus Zürich
Digital Dualism And The Glitch Feminism Manifesto – Cyborgology
2021, Mar 5
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