Echos of Greenham

Echos of Greenham are a series of short films titled Territory, Meadow, Holt and Lea.

These films are digital ‘echos’ of a live performance made by Ceschi + Lane in collaboration with film-maker Thomas Ellis and sound artist Caroline Devine.

They are digital remembrances of a site-specific performance staged on location on Greenham Common.

They were shot on location on the former RAF and American Army base in the English countryside, which is now common land. It was the site of Greenham Common Women’s Peace camp, set up in 1981 to protest against the British government allowing American cruise missiles to be stored there. The protest camp remained for 19 years. In response to the scarred landscape of the post-Cold War dereliction and the contested history of Greenham Common, the performances embodied imaginative and provocative ideas around landscape and memory, the body and its environment and women’s relationship to power. These costumes acted as critical intervention and commentary in a public space, examining how a body focused scenography can generate choreography and its resulting relationship to the ecology of the landscape. The work draws on English pagan ritual costumes in juxtaposition to the military history and abandoned relics.

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