Remember Me. She is interested in how history is formulated through narrative: how we talk, teach and learn, and how society reproduces and considers itself.
This method aims to extend the Marxist contention that by revealing the structural conditions for the existence of capitalist society, it is possible to read the past as something that survives in to the present.
Primarily presented as a performative lecture, this exhibition will discuss the stories of radical women from three different times, over a period of six hundred years. The lecture will be held on the opening evening, and the film element will be shown for the duration of the exhibition.
Site-specific to the locale of Public Exhibitions, the characters were all at some point residents of what is now the Borough of Tower Hamlets, in the east of London — Medieval embroiderer and sex worker Eleanor Rykener; notorious brothel owner and Civil War republican Elizabeth Creswell; and Sarah Wesker, a Jewish radical and garment trade unionist.
The lecture is underscored by ideas of gendered labour, precarity and resistance articulated within the capitalist structure par excellence the global textile industry. Experimenting with non-linear, transhistorical narrative forms, the work aims to question conventions of prescribed or authentic histories.
