We are pleased to present two artistic projects as part of the online exhibition of Critical Costume 2020: Unraveling Traces of Tissues and Cabbage Dressing in Corona Times. See more HERE and below.
Unraveling Traces of Tissues is a video that documents the impact of costume on performers through recorded interviews and video footage from the Traces of Tissues rehearsal process – emphasising both collective and individual experiences. Traces of Tissues is a site-specific costume requiem for those living in the liminal space – a place in between. Interweaving costume design, somatic choreography and site, this performance honours the present plight of the refugee. Traces of Tissues premiered at the Prague Quadrennial, 2019.
Cabbage Dressing in Corona Times is a current research process between Charlotte and Sally that explores collaborative making, wearing, dressing and undressing within the limitations of the global pandemic. The material of cabbage is chosen because of its impermanence – it easily decomposes, becoming symbolic of the fragility of our current context. The costumes are created together but also separately, over zoom on live and virtual moving bodies. The material and recording media continues to de-form, re-form, un-form and in-form the making, moving, reflecting and documenting process.