Medea/Mothers’ Clothes is a subversive take on Mother archetype as well as social and ideological representations of motherhood. Medea, as an archetypal anti-mother figure from the Greek mythology, is juxtaposed with a group of contemporary Liverpool mothers that I personally know from two toddler’s groups. The performance is my intimate, artistic and feminist response to social and cultural constrictions that are placed onto me as a mother and a ‘Foreigner’ (Croatian, resident in Britain).
Medea/Mothers’ Clothes consists of a 30 minutes long solo performance which includes slide show, audio-visual footage and live action. The performance is followed by an installation, the six screen split video projection which depicts my daily life as a mother and performer.
Medea/Mothers’ Clothes Live Art Event was initially developed for the Bluecoat Arts Centre in Liverpool in 2004. The project was supported by the Arts Council England and the Bluecoat Arts Centre in Liverpool. Subsequently Medea/Mothers’ Clothes was performed at Manchester (emergency, green room October 2004), London (Brunel University, November 2004), Santa Clara in Cuba (Teatro Guiñol, January 2005), Dubrovnik in Croatia (InterUniversity Centre, May 2005), Carlisle (Performance Art Carlisle Event at Source Café Carlisle, February 2006), Manchester (The John Thaw Studio Theatre, Manchester University, May 2006), Bristol (International Conference Medea: Mutations and Permutations of a Myth, Bristol University, July 2006), Scarborough (On the Edge annual programme of contemporary small scale performance at the University of Hull in Scarborough, October 2006) and at the University of Winchester (February 2007).
