Give/Take/Women/Space
Shaped from interviews with creative mothers, this digital artwork explores the struggle to carve out time and space for themselves during a global pandemic.
We know the Covid-19 deepened the pre-existing fault lines of how we live now, and so it comes as little surprise that is has damaged many facets of gender equality. Give/ Take/ Women/ Space began as a response to Lockdown 3 in the midst of home-working and home-schooling. As our homes suddenly became the locus of all activity (work, school, play, rest) and were occupied more of the time by more people, we began to reflect on what was happening to our literal and figurative rooms - those same rooms without which Virginia Woolf believed that women could never be creatively free...
We interviewed a host of fantastic mothers who openly and generously discussed the impact of the pandemic on their creativity. They talked to us about their homes, the space they gave up, the space they claimed, shifting identities, and how they are reassessing their relationship to their domestic and creative space.
Give/ Take/ Women/ Space is a 30-minute audio work with visuals. It was first shared as part of POW! Festival Fringe in April 2021.
Watch & listen here:
Contributors
Kait Borsay
Broadcaster/ journalist
Jessica Boyde
Actor/ voiceover artist/ executive coach/ trainee psychotherapist
Emily Corcoran
Filmmaker
Corinne Kempa
Voice over artist/founder of Millie et Hector
Jo Kornstein
Set decorator
Tracie Peisley
Kelly Phoenix
Anna Tolputt
Theatre Director
Judita Vivas
Performer/physical theatre artist/educator
Emma Wilcox
Project Director, Creative Estuary
Sarah Winn