"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in." Virginia Woolf (2016:23)
The screening will be followed by a presentation by Juliette Blightman on Room After Woolf, practice-based investigation into the boundaries of domestic space, creative production, and gender. Blightman recently completed her PhD at the Royal College of Art (GB).
Her research explores how a consideration of contemporary artists' practices, in particular their embodied experiences of creative production and physical space, might shed new light on Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own (1929). The PhD maps artists' work and methodologies onto specific domestic spaces/rooms as a means of locating them within the home; it also uses various feminist strategies to straddle and unpick dominant cultural expectations and norms of gender roles, particularly with regards to work and domestic labour.
