Who Do You Think You Are?

KIRSTY SURGEY, THE SPACE IN-BETWEEN

I’ve recently completed a performance project investigating the use of creative methods to research family histories. One of the pieces that I. I was given a box of Kodachrome slide transparencies that my great grandmother Ethel Nichol took on holiday in 1967. I didn’t know much about the photographs, so I chose to explore these images of a distant holiday through practice by showing them in a slide show and imagining what Ethel might have said about them if she’d shared them on her return.

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