My name is Cecilia Parsberg, I grew up in Sweden. I live and work as a visual artist
in London. During May and June, 2000 I travelled around South Africa. When I
visited an area in the centre of Cape Town called District Six I met a woman. She
came up and started to talk to me and my videocamera about her situation, being
homeless, She said: I am the Queen of Homeless. Me, my King and my friends
don't have a house, we don't have a shelter, I don't even have ID. I am speaking
for all homeless people and to you as a woman to a woman. Please tell them...
I told her that I work as an artist and I said to her that I would do what I can.
She saw my camera as a medium and a possibility. I filmed and photographed her,
her husband and her friends. Many of us are born into a life situation that steers
our destiny and this is usually the main obstacle for each individual in the search
to find freedom. As an artist I make and intermediate images of what I percieve
living in the society. I am sending this video to you and to all the Queens in the
world. This video is her possibility to meet you and yours to meet her. Please find
enclosed a videocasette with the title: "To all Queens" as a gift.
This letter will be published in the Swedish art- and litterature- magazine
"OOTAL" together with some stills from the video and and a list of all the Queens
it has been sent to. The video will exclusively be shown to the Queens and in my
lectures.
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