Gingerbread Women
Performance
Suspended on a swing structure in the shape of a heart are homemade Gingerbread Women cookies (created from a DIY cookie cutter in the form of a women much resembling ancient female effigies from Mesopotamia).
Synopsis
Inaugurating the love fest of St. Valentines Day; a performance unravels with the dissemination of Valentines’ cards. Bound in ribbon upon unfolding them is a text inviting participants to read aloud their personalised message : I am followed by an individual ingredient or intention ie : ginger, love, sugar, surrender, flour, etc,...
In a poetic musical and rhythmic overlapping of voices the participants metaphorically and collectively mix the ingredients, mingle and discover each others mantra.
Participants are gifted a Gingerbread Woman Cookie at the end of the performance and together EAT them up !
The swings suspended ribbons; weightless without the Gingerbread Woman Cookies freely hover and sway.
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Exhibition
The University of Windsor, Canada, 1991
Components
Gingerbread Women cookies
seam binding
wood
potato stamp prints
Dimensions
swing set : 2 m x 1.4 m x 2m
each cookie approx : 12 cm x 9 cm x 2.5 cm
invitations on paper : 14.8 cm x 10.5 cm