Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking
Wild Dress is an immersive sonic work that explores wilderness, landscape and our place within it, through the medium of clothing. Weaving together stories and essays by professor of Sustainable Fashion Kate Fletcher, Wild Dress teases us towards a transformation in human-nature relations.
Created by Kate Fletcher, immersive sound designer Carolyn Downing and director/dramaturg Zoë Svendsen.
Head to Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking to listen to Wild Dress caught in the wind around Hawkwood. You will need headphones, a smartphone and the ‘Echoes’ app: see here for instructions on how to download it.
Also see here for information on accessibility.
Wild Dress was launched at Hawkwood as part of their May Day Festival 2024, with an interactive installation created in collaboration with Stroud-based artists Emily Joy and Alison Cockcroft (Periscope) and Nicola Builder (Wayward Weaves). There were two Wild Dress Community Weaving Workshops in the lead-up to the launch, creating tabards woven from the landscapes all around. Please see here for more detail.
Kate Fletcher
Kate Fletcher is a researcher and design activist and is the most cited scholar in the field of fashion and sustainability, working internationally to transform fashion’s relations to the natural world around us.
Find out more about Kate FletcherCarolyn Downing
Carolyn Downing is an immersive sound designer, who works across a range of media nationally and internationally, including Life of Pi on Broadway, for which Carolyn won a Tony award, to So You Say You Want a Revolution?, Records and rebels 1965–70, Victoria and Albert Museum. Carolyn and Zoë previously collaborated on Ness, by Robert Macfarlane, for the Estuary festival.
Find out more about Carolyn DowningZoë Svendsen
Zoë Svendsen is director of METIS.You can find her bio here.
Find out more about Zoë SvendsenNicola Builder (Wayward Weaves, Saori Weaving)
Nicola Builder is a Saori weaver based in Stroud. Saori is an accessible and intuitive form of weaving from Japan that encourages improvisation and free expression without pattern or plan. Nicola also has a background in sustainability and has developed and facilitated public participatory and community projects exploring people’s sense of connection with place.
@waywardweaves
Find out more about Wayward WeavesEmily Joy and Ali Cockcroft (Periscope)
Emily Joy and Alison Cockcroft are Stroud-based artists, workshop facilitators and teachers whose individual practices explore human/non-human relationships, land, memory, and loss. They also work together as Periscope, creating immersive, creative events which encourage a reimagining of connections between communities and land, history, and future potential.
@emilyjoyartist
@alisoncockcroft
Find out more about Periscope
Developed by METIS
Produced by Artsadmin
Presented by Cambridge Junction at the Cambridge Festival
Publicly funded through Arts Council England
Supported by an artistic residency at Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking.
