Monologues II: patriarchal traditions and the New Age, 2018







The audience is invited to arrive before the performance begins, so as to sit with setting sun as it illuminates the windows. Each contains a transparent coloured image: a lady, a metronome, a hand, and the double sided figure of a speech prompter. The specific colours were developed through previous projects: the pervasive ‘ground of being pink’; the ‘basic subjective six’ of the lady’s eyes; and the metronome’s ‘synaesthetic alphabet’. The iconography is based on props, video of whose performance accompanies the second in a series of iterative lectures. “Monologues” of the title refers to the lecture itself but also the speech of historical feminine figures that inhabit a broad field of research.