Clitorian Reading Room is an installation created for the attic of the Rüschhaus, located just a few kilometers outside Münster. The romantic country house served for more than twenty years as the summer residence of the poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, where she wrote many of her most important works.
Blending historical references, speculative fiction, and feminist thought, the work imagines Droste-Hülshoff as an early visionary of a “Clitorian Age” — a cultural paradigm centered on sensation, complexity, and embodied knowledge beyond binary understandings of gender and anatomy.
The installation presents fragments of a fictional archive, including relics from Droste-Hülshoff’s imagined clitorian collection and excerpts from secret correspondences, alongside contemporary objects and performances. At its center is a reinterpretation of the legendary Clitorian Reading Room — a space dedicated to experimental forms of reading, writing, and sensing.
Chairs: Bound by Ceca
Performers (Audio) : Ethan Folk and Paula Hans
Photos: Sabrina Richmann
Special Thanks: Jörg Albrecht and our collaborators
Year: 2019