Slow Thinking

 “Me and this chick I know… we want to do something. We wrote a play about it.  We want to speak up. It’s not really a play, It’s more of a scene about the war. Makes fun of the television news, how we’re all being lied to. We built a screen out of, you know, a sheet” Carla Kirkwood ‘Critical Condition - women on the edge of violence’  

This is the first in a series of diptychs from Grace Surman. In placing herself next to women of different ages to engage in physical and choreographic-based tasks, the work can be seen as two solos which are constantly interrupting each other.