Unbosom is a performance drawing from Lynn Lu's current research on the figure of the Crone, and the lived experience of female ageing. Though there is much literature on menopause, very little of it has been written by women. When Virginia Woolf tried to bring menopause and menstruation into her greatest novel, Mrs Dalloway, these references were edited out of later versions. Before 2000, there was hardly a female voice writing about our experiences of ageing, and of reaching the end of reproductive life.
In Unbosom, Lynn will bring women's voices on these themes back onto the pages of Mrs Dalloway by inscribing in milk excerpts from Miranda July's All Fours, Darcey Steinke's Flash Count Diary, Susan Mattern's The Slow Moon Climbs, Victoria Smith's Hags, Germaine Greer's The Change, and many others. Lynn will then rip out pages from Mrs Dalloway and iron the pages individually. In doing so, the heat of the iron will reveal the excerpts invisibly scripted in milk. Audiences are welcome to pick up the sheets to read the texts.
Surrounded by walls of personal data redactions by artist Joanne Lim, Unbosom inversely mirrors this work by inscribing a polyphony of intimate female experiences back onto the pages of Woolf's masterpiece.
Event Date: 21 December 2024
Event Time: 4pm-5pm
Event Location: 39+ Art Space, Gallery B
Entry is free