“A performance for the house”
We construct homes around ourselves to have something which protects us from the
outside like a shell. Inside this space offers us the comfort of a warm nest. Yet this is
also the very place where we negotiate our deepest questions about our lives.
Home can sometimes feel claustrophobic.
The series displacing documents me entering all sort of awkward places in my home.
I squeezed into cupboards and shelves; laid below a matrass, a radiator, a small table, and sat
in the dishwasher as well as in the bathroom sink.
In order to fit into some if these spaces I had to fold my body to become very small.
Pretty much jammed in I was astonished about how large in fact I felt and I was reminded
of Alice in Wonderland. (2008)
In spring 2008 I received the invitation to submit a personal statement of “critical optimism”
for Jacob Wren and Pieter de Buysser’s online archive & lecture performance An Anthology of Optimism.
I feel very honoured that they work with these images on stage!