Kaleidoscope
‘Kaleidoscope’ is a series of eight five-minute scenes employing conventions from TV, cinema and theatre, exploring the relationship of middle class feminism as it shapes the private and public lives of a married couple. The contradictory positions exhibited by the two women protagonists as they attempt to live their beliefs underscores the unresolvable social conditions contained in even the most progressive views of social organisation.
Originally performed as a Brechtian style “soap-opera” over a 2 week period at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, these five minute sequences were re-arranged for each performance, creating a different resolution each time. The most balanced of these was chosen for the tape.
I am interested in questioning the everyday, the taken-for-granted world of ordinary experience. My tapes utilise different strategies to reflect this concern.
– Judith Barry
Description source: Circles Catalogue (circa 1983). Compiled by Helen MacKintosh and Margaret Gillan. Edited by Felicity Sparrow.
