Monologues II: patriarchal traditions and the New Age, 2018 (installation & performance)
![Interior, dim space with several windows with transparent pink images, like stained glass](/images/projects/monologues-installation/11.jpg)
![Oblique view of glowing window with the bust of a woman](/images/projects/monologues-installation/6.jpg)
![Window with a metronome](/images/projects/monologues-installation/7.jpg)
![Window with upstretched hand](/images/projects/monologues-installation/8.jpg)
![Window with teleprompter](/images/projects/monologues-installation/9.jpg)
![The artist speaking to a seated audience, with a large projected image in the background](/images/projects/monologues-installation/10.jpg)
![Closeup of the artist speaking](/images/projects/monologues-installation/12.jpg)
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.