A Glamorous Woman, 2026
Stereo audio with captions, 5 minutes 27 seconds
 
Image description: A close up of six lines of a typed script for a voiceover. The text has been enlarged so that it’s not possible to read full sentences, and words at the edges of the image have been cut off mid-letter. Some words have been scribbled out and new dialogue has been handwritten above them in black pen; one example is in the centre of the image where the phrase ‘on top of’ has been crossed out with a shaky line and replaced with ‘beneath she wears’ in capital letters.

Image credit: A Glamorous Woman production image, 2026


Image description: The words ‘It’s her story to tell, not mine, but let’s just say... she didn’t end up playing the role she signed up for’ in light blue text, superimposed over blurry, unreadable yellow text on a black background.

Image credit: Still from A Glamorous Woman, Dan Guthrie, 2026

A Glamorous Woman is a work of two halves: a newly produced audio description of a 1988 performance by Dareth May Bennett, co-written by Bennett and Guthrie with consultation from Soundscribe, and read by Bennett; followed by a director’s commentary on the making of the audio description, written and read by Guthrie.

A Glamorous Woman was produced and first exhibited during a residency at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam in 2026, and is self-distributed. Please contact the artist directly to organise an exhibition or screening of the work.

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Selected exhibitions and screenings
2026    Open Studios 2026, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam