Video, Audio, metal, soft sculpture with repurposed fabric, screen print on recycled paper, digital print, natural dye, repurposed keg, abortifacient plants, 2022
Down in the Basement/Rave for the End of the World is a reaction to the callousness of our political systems and interpersonal relations, imagining the near future where the climate crisis has tipped too far and our human/women’s rights have been completely eroded. In the wreckage of the patriarchal apocalypse this is an ecofeminist attempt to come to terms with the damage, to piece together a new non-hierarchical religion drawing motifs from British histories of folklore and Christianity entwined with the freedom of dancing on a night out, in a collage of collective care. It’s a shared environment to dance, be present and be kind when there’s little else to hold onto. Taking back our bodies, femininity and fertility using materials, technologies and plants that are easily at hand & democratised, being conscious of ourselves.
Down in the Basement/Rave for the End of the World is a reaction to the callousness of our political systems and interpersonal relations, imagining the near future where the climate crisis has tipped too far and our human/women’s rights have been completely eroded. In the wreckage of the patriarchal apocalypse this is an ecofeminist attempt to come to terms with the damage, to piece together a new non-hierarchical religion drawing motifs from British histories of folklore and Christianity entwined with the freedom of dancing on a night out, in a collage of collective care. It’s a shared environment to dance, be present and be kind when there’s little else to hold onto. Taking back our bodies, femininity and fertility using materials, technologies and plants that are easily at hand & democratised, being conscious of ourselves.
