Abstract
Medea/Mothers' Clothes is a thirty minute long solo performance, developed as a part of a practice as research PhD entitled `(Dis)Identifying Female Archetypes in Live Art' at Lancaster University. Medea/Mothers' Clothes was supported by the Arts Council England and the Bluecoat Arts Centre in Liverpool, where it was first presented in the spring of 2004. 1 In my performance, I bring Medea, as the archetypal anti-mother figure, into dialogue with a group of contemporary Liverpool mothers drawn from two toddler groups. The performance is an artistic and feminist response to social and cultural constrictions that I have experienced as a foreigner (a Croatian, resident in Britain) and as a mother of three British children. Medea/Mothers' Clothes stages an intervention into cultural mythmaking about Medea by drawing on my daily experiences of 'foreign motherhood' and my place within a community of Liverpool mothers. The performance draws on the figure of Medea as a means of critiquing, trans-coding and rebelling against prescribed maternal ideals.
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