Oblique view of glowing window with the bust of a woman Window with a metronome Window with upstretched hand Window with teleprompter
The artist performing, lecture-style, with a large projected image in the background, before a seated audience

The audience is invited to arrive before the performance begins, so as to sit with setting sun as it illuminates the windows. Each window contains a transparent coloured image: a lady, a metronome, and a hand—flanked on either side by the double sided figure of a speech prompter. The window 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 words of historical feminine figures that inhabit a broad field of research.

Monologues: patriarchal traditions and the New Age, video documentation of performance at Western Front, (excerpts, 4 mins), 2018

Monologues: patriarchal traditions and the New Age (a score), acetate and hand-cut lighting gels, (detail), Western Front, Vancouver, 2018

Monologues: patriarchal traditions and the New Age (a score), performance still, Western Front, Vancouver, 2018