Return/Redux, 2009
Performance
Chicago Feminisms Past, Present, and Future, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL

Original performance 23:00
Video excerpt 3:05

Return/Redux is a reclamation of female power through movement that is at once ceremonial and disruptive. The performance is overlayed with Sykes’ voice reciting passages from proto-feminist texts spanning a five hundred year period alongside narratives of female mythological figures such as Pandora. The testimonies challenge the erasure of women’s voices throughout history, dating back to Greek and Hellenistic mythologies.

Concept and direction: Ginny Sykes
Performer: Ginny Sykes
Music: Victor Sanders
Voice: Ginny Sykes
Costume design: Ginny Sykes
Video editing: Jon Drake, Nell Drake, Ginny Sykes