An audio performance by Anna Kinbom, Choterina Freer and Rut Karin Zettergren, with acknowledgement to Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy and (1976) and Zeros and Ones by Sadie Plant (1997).
Image: Performance at Tallinn Feminist Forum (TALFF), Tallinn, Estonia, 2019.
Image: Performance scripts in English and Estonian for Tallinn Feminist Forum (TALFF).
Image: Photo of script with paintings by Rut Karin Zettergren.
Image: Photo of script with paintings by Rut Karin Zettergren.
Image: Photo of script with paintings by Rut Karin Zettergren.
Image: Photo of script with paintings by Rut Karin Zettergren.
Image: Photo of script with paintings by Rut Karin Zettergren.
Image: Performance at Tallinn Feminist Forum (TALFF), Tallinn, Estonia, 2019.
Image: Audience at WH!PH! Side Affects, Minsk, Belarus 2019.Nina, Connie and K
An audio performance by Anna Kinbom, Choterina Freer and Rut Karin Zettergren, with acknowledgement to Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy and (1976) and Zeros and Ones by Sadie Plant (1997)
Year: 2019
Material : Audio performance
Performed: Futureless Festival in Stockholm (2022); Tallinn Feminist Forum (TALFF), Tallinn, Estonia (2019); and WH!PH! Side Affects, Minsk, Belarus (2019).
In Nina, K and Connie we imagined possible utopian futures through a short piece of speculative fiction on collectivity. This fiction was in response to a comment from Marge Piercy in her text “Woman on the Edge of Time Forty years on” (2016). In this she writes about how in the second-wave women’s movement many utopias were created and now they aren’t. Piercy says “[in the 1970s] Feminist utopias were created out of a hunger for what we didn’t have, at a time when change felt not only possible but probable. Utopias came from the desire to imagine a better society when we dared to do so. When our political energy goes into defending rights, and projects we won and created are now under attack, there is far less energy for imagining fully drawn future societies we might wish to live in.” The aim of this work is to focus on historical and contemporary ideas of collectivity to imagine new feminist futures.
The performance-text is invoked from Woman on the Edge of Time (1976) by Marge Piercy and Zeros and Ones (1997) by Sadie Plant, alongside positive aspects of our own experiences living and working in collectives. Our performance draws on the hopefulness of these historical and current texts, and pauses to imagine feminist utopian ideas of collectivity.
With thanks to:
Georgie Jordan
Tallinn Feminist Forum (TALFF)
WORK HARD! PLAY HARD! (WH!PH!) Festival
IASPIS international cultural exchange
Nordic Cultural Point
Choterina Freer