MAXXI/ Future Architecture
(In) mura
In collaboration with the MAXXI (National Museum of 21st Century Art and Architecture), Rome, and Future Architecture, the theme 'Gender and Space' prioritised bio-political alignments and marginal figures redefining innovative architectural, artistic practices across global contexts, culminating in the exhibition, 'Buone Nuove' (Good News) in December 2021-2024.
Supported by MAXXI, my film (In) Mura, represented 5 months of site-specific transmedial fieldwork and archival research into the interconnections of socio-spatial phenomenologies, sculptural/ performative choreographies and contested architectural intimacies at Långholmens Spinnhuset (Women’s Prison, 1649-1825), Stockholm.
Iterative on-site performances were attentive to overlooked histories, anatomies of incarceration, archival/contemporary prison typologies, and the politics of traumatic human/non-human narrative, to mediate female (auto)ethnographies, across boundaries of gender, of discomfort, distortion and confinement.
Supported by MAXXI, my film (In) Mura, represented 5 months of site-specific transmedial fieldwork and archival research into the interconnections of socio-spatial phenomenologies, sculptural/ performative choreographies and contested architectural intimacies at Långholmens Spinnhuset (Women’s Prison, 1649-1825), Stockholm.
Iterative on-site performances were attentive to overlooked histories, anatomies of incarceration, archival/contemporary prison typologies, and the politics of traumatic human/non-human narrative, to mediate female (auto)ethnographies, across boundaries of gender, of discomfort, distortion and confinement.
(In) Mura, Site-specific Architectural Performance, Sculptural Installation and film, 5 minutes and 56 Seconds, HD, Colour.
Performed, Directed and Filmed by Emma Hirsk, on location at Långholmen Spinnhuset, former Women's Prison, Stockholm, Sweden, 2021.
Performed, Directed and Filmed by Emma Hirsk, on location at Långholmen Spinnhuset, former Women's Prison, Stockholm, Sweden, 2021.
(In) Murus (I), Press Photograph, 2021.
Site-specific Architectural Performance, Sculptural Installation and film.
(Långholmen Spinnhuset, former Women's Prison, Stockholm, Sweden.)
Site-specific Architectural Performance, Sculptural Installation and film.
(Långholmen Spinnhuset, former Women's Prison, Stockholm, Sweden.)