Gender Monologues is an interactive media installation challenging our historical and cultural understanding of gender, taking us beyond the limitations of stereotypes in an innovative and magical way.
In this project, Diana Blok intends to explore how individuals with a history of creating theatrical illlusions, relate to their own intimate role-playing fantasies, crossing gender boundaries and finding ways to display them for public viewing. 

The installation consists of twelve filmed life-size portraits of actors viewed on six screens, each impersonating their favourite character of the opposite sex, recited in six-minute monologues. The monologues are extracted from, or inspired by lines delivered by iconic characters in drama and literature, both historical and contemporary.

The result is multidimensional: portraits of our time containing speeches and visions that bring revealing thoughts and insightful conversations about identity, revolution and desire in what feels like a personal confrontation with each actor.

The merging of literature, performance, film, the criss-crossing of time & genders, invites us to rethink our biases about one art form always taking precedence over another. 
Please see our website for further information: www.gendermonologues.com