A
few years ago I began a work titled Kitchen/Witch.
It
was to be a web project linking narratives of architecture,
technology and gender. I wanted
to examine politics, tropes and
spaces of telecommunication throughout Western history, by presenting
fictional/critical images and texts from feminist perspectives.
As
I continued research for the project, it became clear that my scope
was potentially encyclopaedic. Also, while I initially wanted to examine how
women's inventiveness had been historically overlooked, many other artists
and
cultural theorists had already beautifully mapped this terrain.
What
began to interest me more immediately were my own (and others')
practises of witnessing and inventing subtle technologies in everyday
life.
bent aerial hovers in the present, but also understands that time
is likely more than linear.
Though
Kitchen/Witch informs
and is part of bent aerial,
I see it as oscillating between an archive and a blueprint.
Like bent aerial,
it will alter and transform over time.
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initial plan for Kitchen/Witch.
* skip
plan - go straight to story/storage


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