KUDERA + MPEARSONATER is an ongoing collaboration between garment designer and textile artist Alena Kudera + dancer and performance maker Mary Pearson, in search of an embodied and felt response to environmental crisis.

KUDERA's collection of wearable sculptures are made from single use plastics, fast fashion and other materials headed to landfill.

Designed to give sensory experiences to dancers who disappear into piles of rubbish and appear as mythical sentient creatures or high fashion silhouettes.

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Our current work in progress, 'What Have We Become?' brings dance makers Amy Voris and Laura Doehler together with electro-acoustic musician Caterina McEvoy and multimedia artist + production designer Noel Jones as an immersive performance installation.​​

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Audience are invited to enter a space for contemplation to reflect on difficult truths.  

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We humans often speak about ‘the animals’ and ‘the environment’ as if we are not animals, living in an environment. 

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Ensnared by our own disposable by-products.

As if a plastic bag could kill me, I would eat myself to death, suffocate in bliss, not notice we were dying we were experiencing so much pleasure.

As if my body needed reminding it was there, as if otherwise I would float away.

As if nobody cared, as if anybody cared, as if there is no time to care.

As if care equals stuff.

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