The Anna Jarvis Project ~ by Alva Roselius

The Anna Jarvis Project

Alva's question: Can we fake it?

Alva's intro:

The Anna Jarvis Project is a one-man band formed in 2022.

The group took its name from Anna Jarvis, who originally founded Mother's Day to draw attention to women’s unpaid domestic labor but then spent much of her life trying to abolish the holiday after it was distorted into a commercial gimmick

The Anna Jarvis Project is post-Riot Grrrl. It is a frustration that feminism became commercialized and began to focus on strong women instead of redistributing resources. It is a frustration at not daring to ask for help and instead having to do everything yourself.

But it is also an exploration of fear and failure, fake and real. An investigation into the presumed low stakes for those who have nothing to lose, and of how faking cracks open the system—spawning new advantages and absurd prospects.

The Anna Jarvis Project will be performed on Saturday 9 August at Centrale Fies in Dro as part of the AEROPONIC ACTS 2025: CHOREIA.