Women Who Read

Performance

September 7th-8th & 14th-15th 2018

The Brooklyn Central Library, Brooklyn, NY, USA


For the performance “Women who read” a desk and a comfortable chair are set in a prominent and incongruous place of the library: the center of the atrium.

On the desk, a book is lit by a lamp.  The title reads “Women who read are dangerous” (by Laure Adler and Stefan Bollmann).

Sitting on the chair, I am embroidering words on a long piece of white fabric that looks like a scroll. This fabric is an antique strip originally designed to cover a newborn umbilical cord. 

Words that represent my vision for women are intertwined with names of local historical feminine figures.  Visitors who wish to participate are also encouraged to embroider words representing their vision of the feminine on the scroll and to discuss the title of the book.

I am hoping to reopen the dialogue, like many women before me, about women’s rights.