Mark Greenwood ~ White Mum
White Mum is a performance/text work that explores ideas around death, remembrance and celebration.
Greenwood will utilise text and diaristic gesture to remember the loss of a familiar figure; a cousin, and single mum who recently died of cancer at a relatively young age.
Rituals of remembrance, mourning and celebration will be re-enacted alongside a gathering of objects that in life may be considered as mundane, but in after-life carry a special signification. These objects or totems undergo a shift in representation, becoming memorials to loss and mourning, but also signs that celebrate loss and renewal. Greenwood wishes to explore these shifts and aims to re-interpret the psychic and physical contexts that surround loss and the attempts to re-connect or communicate to a lost relative. In keeping with 11 11 11, Greenwood wishes to utilise a series pop songs that reached number one in order to evoke memories that re-navigate the life-span of White Mum.
The pop song represents a communal mapping of the past, where the materiality of expression, technological advancement and aspects of semoitexte are subject to ongoing mediation and meditation.
The audience will be invited to take part in this remembrance through communal singing and a collective consideration of what it is to remember the death of loved ones; where intimacies and pure moments of reconciliation are shared and uttered.
Greenwood hopes that through the text/actions that re-constitute a prolonged remembrance, communication will be made, and that a sign, visible or hidden, will be revealed during his performance.
Greenwood will utilise text and diaristic gesture to remember the loss of a familiar figure; a cousin, and single mum who recently died of cancer at a relatively young age.
Rituals of remembrance, mourning and celebration will be re-enacted alongside a gathering of objects that in life may be considered as mundane, but in after-life carry a special signification. These objects or totems undergo a shift in representation, becoming memorials to loss and mourning, but also signs that celebrate loss and renewal. Greenwood wishes to explore these shifts and aims to re-interpret the psychic and physical contexts that surround loss and the attempts to re-connect or communicate to a lost relative. In keeping with 11 11 11, Greenwood wishes to utilise a series pop songs that reached number one in order to evoke memories that re-navigate the life-span of White Mum.
The pop song represents a communal mapping of the past, where the materiality of expression, technological advancement and aspects of semoitexte are subject to ongoing mediation and meditation.
The audience will be invited to take part in this remembrance through communal singing and a collective consideration of what it is to remember the death of loved ones; where intimacies and pure moments of reconciliation are shared and uttered.
Greenwood hopes that through the text/actions that re-constitute a prolonged remembrance, communication will be made, and that a sign, visible or hidden, will be revealed during his performance.
Documentation by Roshana Rubin - Mayhew