Innovative Costume Design of the 21st Century: The Next Generation

Selected as UK representative for productions Axiom & Trinity for international group exhibition at the A.A Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum, Moscow.

Exhibited Pieces:
1. Photographic documentation of costumes from 'Axiom' research project.
"Axiom was created during Acts:ReActs 4 residency in London in 2017.
In the residency Kate Lane & Joe Wild turned the gallery into a performance making machine. It looked to question the performer's body as author and played with post-dramatic aspects of time/ space/ body and media through game playing, performance and creation of objects. It involved into a series of performance and participatory games inviting the audience to interact physically either live or virtually through telematic performance."

2. Photographic documentation of costumes from 'Trinity' performance
"Trinity live stage performance examined the aesthetics and ideas of sacredness in our western visual culture, challenging the objectification and iconification of the female form, from the Venus of Willendorf to the Virgin Mary. The performance looked at the representation, mutation and transformation of the body in our collective visual consciousness, and explores the idea of "the other" from Renaissance Art through to folklore and popular culture."

"INNOVATIVE COSTUME OF THE 21st CENTURY: THE NEXT GENERATION is the second large-scale project from the series, COSTUME and TIME. This new project represents experimental work of young designers from more than 40 countries around the world. At this exhibition, you will see a range of work for theatre, fashion, and performing arts from designers who began their professional careers between 2000 and 2019. This project continues research into the development of modern theatrical-visual thinking in the spirit of the previous exhibition, COSTUME AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: 1990-2015, which provided the international community the premier opportunity to become more familiar with the art and development of theatrical costume of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. This exhibition presented a wide palette of work by artists for both experimental and traditional forms of theater and created a unique opportunity to consider the main and important trends in the development of the design of theatrical costumes on a global scale. It showcased over 1,500 pieces by more than 250 designers from 30 countries representing different generations, social status, and cultural heritages. This exhibition, with all of its variety of styles, ideas, and opinions, allowed us to analyze, compare, and evaluate creative searches in the interpretation of the artistic representation of theatrical costume in the transitional period of the 20th and 21st Centuries. It made an invaluable contribution to the enrichment of the artistic and theatrical vocabulary of our contemporaries."

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