The chair was originally one of eight colourful RIOT chairs that Miss Pokeno built to celebrate the courage of women protesters from Suffragettes onwards.

“I use chairs as bodies to create uncomfortable narratives. I build them using traditional English upholstery methods from frames I design myself and then often ceremoniously destroy creating chaos that produces a new narrative as well as a new form. By removing the outer fabric of this chair and exposing the calico it is reminiscent of the Cucking stools used for the punishment of disorderly women in old England. Women who were labelled as witches or scolds were stripped down to their smocks, placed on stools and then publicly humiliated.

By first hanging and then exploding this chair I identify as both the victim and perpetrator - The chair no longer becomes a place of comfort and ease”.

Filmed in Old Womans' Woods, East Sussex.