curtains
2003
The Taxi Gallery, Cambridge
A three-week-long, day and night performance of ardent housekeeping
and spacious travel!
This project involved collaborations with many different people: Kirsten Lavers
is the artist/curator of the taxi gallery which is sited in her front garden
and her role as facilitator/neighbour/webcam operator was crucial; Hugo Danino,
who drives a London taxi, highlighted the driver/passenger divide; Anna Grimshaw
gave the project another layer by filming the performance with an ethnographer's
eye; and about fifty people responded to my request for material out of which
I made curtains for each of the taxi's windows.
Adopting the persona of Material Woman, and using the traditional skills of
sewing and of sleeping curled up, I transformed the taxi into a temporary
home and myself into a princess! Three separate films with each of the three
collaborators are in the making.
See more at the
taxi gallery archive
click on the taxi for more photos