the loneliness room

The overall aim of the loneliness room project is to shine a poetic light on where, when and how loneliness is encountered, providing a new canvass with which to greet it. In sharing stories of loneliness the project seeks to raise the awareness of what loneliness constitutes.

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What is the loneliness room? 

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For the purpose of this project the loneliness room is defined as a real or imagined space where we feel lonely or find loneliness. We may also prefer to call this quality or state one of aloneness, where it is solitude and isolation that we seek. 

 

Each of us will have our very own version of the loneliness room: it could be the hills we walk on, a morning swim at the beach or the local swimming pool, listening to a certain sad song in our bedroom, the morning commute, writing in our diary, or the park we go to sit in at lunchtime.

 

The project explores not just the isolation of loneliness but the social, creative and experiential possibilities of loneliness in all walks of life: this is loneliness as a natural part of the human condition.

 

I am asking those interested in taking part to respond to the idea of the lonelinessroom through sharing their creative responses and/or completing a short questionnaire(s).

 

The creative response is meant to capture your loneliness room and can be:

Photograph(s) (with/without captions)

Short video(s)

Drawing(s) 

Painting(s)

Diary

Social media posts 

Hand-written letter(s) (which could be posted to me)

Songs, composition, audio

Recorded performance

 

These creative responses will then be eventually housed in a loneliness room website, where participants can also directly post their own representations of the loneliness room. These responses can either be ‘signed’ or anonymous. The project is also contracted with Manchester University Press for their Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography series.

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Please visit: https://sredmond4.wixsite.com/lonelyroom

 

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