Victoria Acts I, II & III
Commissioned for Performance Proletarians at Magasin – CNAC, Grenoble, FR, Victoria explores the relationship between movement, speech and authority. Drawing from research undertaken while creating Manners, Habits, and Other Received Ideas (2014), this performance questions colonial ideologies propagated during the expansion of the second British Empire under Queen Victoria. During the Victorian era concepts such as privacy, family and the home became standard structures of society and were used to judge certain ways of living as uncivilized or amoral. Their effects as we can see have been long lasting. In Victoria, visitors see a body struggling against the oppressive narratives of received ideas.