"A shell-roofed cottage"

Performance by Alicja Mackiewicz with Aleksandra Komsta, Magdalena Ostrowska, Asia Jokiel & Zuza Loch.

A crocheted lace house is burned in a collective singing ritual, concluded with a reading.  

Using Bielyi Holos (“white voice”) singing, an Eastern European open-throat vocal tradition historically used to carry sound across distance, the performance addresses inherited ideas of domesticity, female labour, safety, and the idealised nuclear home. The lace house, produced with crochet cotton yarn dipped in wax, functions as both shelter and obstacle. 

Through fire, voice, and written word, the work attempts to release generational expectations attached to control, perfection, and belonging.