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Spoons (After Carolyn Lazard)

Director: Jamila Prowse
Year: 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Type: Short
Form: Experimental

A moving-image work based on spoon theory. Jamila papier-mâchés spoons with newspaper clippings related to COVID-19. As they are completed and placed down, two hands begin to come and take them away. Overlayed are voicenoted conversations with three other disabled artists – Leah Clements, Carolyn Lazard and Bella Milroy – about their personal relationships to spoon theory.

Jamila Prowse’s website

Image description: Two paper-mâchéd spoons lay on a table covered in an emboirdered table cloth. Two hands reach out from the top of the image, paper-mâchéing a third wooden spoon.