I Know You Intimately and You Know Me Not At All

In collaboration with Chelsea Space and the Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990 exhibition at Tate Britain, MACC presented ‘I Know You Intimately And You Know Me Not At All’, the screening of ‘The Gold Diggers’ (Sally Potter, 1983) in Febuary 2024, accompanied by materials of the Lindsay Cooper Archive, situated in UAL. The Gold Diggers (1983) is an avant-garde film created to explore the topics of wealth and societal structures of power by following the journey of two women, Ruby and Celeste, and their exploration of their roles in the world created in the film in respect to patriarchal structures. This film is written mainly in riddles, a technique used by Potter to represent the way men intentionally complicate topics to alienate women from structures of power. A way Sally Potter explores the landscape of wealth, administration, performance, and womanhood in The Gold Diggers (1983) is by creating contradictions, futility, and repression at the hands of the patriarchy, and exemplified through seemingly answerless riddles. These riddles continue to grow in ambiguity as a means to mystify and enforce these power structures from men to women. We created a booklet that audience members could hold and read during the movie with some of, what we considered, the most confusing scenes and riddles in the film. These were all accompanied by timestamps as a way to make the book easy to follow during the film and allowing audience members to find these quotes, if they’d like to, in their own time. These were also presented with the score sheets, created by Lindsay Cooper, for the music that accompanied these scenes in the film.