Heidegger proposes that we easily ‘fall’ into a habit of not paying attention to our ‘being’, and our ‘being in the world’. Consider how the space in the corner represents the world that we are ‘thrown’ into. The emotional effect of whether we are pushed into the corner or are we there voluntarily. The How is the interior gendered and whether our position in the corner and our willingness to be there may be empowering.
Projected onto Dell Walkers Negative Spaces Interrupted,. A tangible visualisation of empty space. A confusion of angles. A place filled. It suggests the feminism of Luce Irigary, mother earth, the female, empty. That men feel they need to fill up. As this was a projection the audience walked through, we are all part of the space, all people get to fill the emptiness.
Sarah Woodward 