Connecting Memories

Connecting Memories in CC2022: Costume Connections Exhibition, Online Exhibition as part of Critical Costume Conference 2022

This exhibited work is my reflections on the context and creative working process for the project Confinement with my performance collective ceschi + lane. The project looked at the historic traditions of post-natal confinement in the context of the global pandemic lockdowns. It consists of a site-specific costume-led performance at Walthamstow wetlands in London, a series of community workshops forming a collective artwork and a series of ‘echos’ in the form of short films. Within the project we examined how the costumed body can give materiality to memory, form connections with community and become a critical commentary in the context of current events and wider contemporary & historical cultural traditions. The core of this project is about connection through costume both with the ecology of the landscape in its site-specific location, with collective memory and with community.