Common Wealth – Fast, Fast, Slow, presented at The Exchange, Blackburn during BTB23.
Fast, Fast, Slow is a unique performance exploring the complexity of our personal relationships to fashion, fast fashion and waste.
With a catwalk as its centre-piece, Fast, Fast, Slow showcased concept collections from six co-creators from Blackburn and Burnley and collaborators from The Revival in Accra, Ghana, a community-led sustainable design and campaigning organisation. Wear it once, wear forever, body dysmorphia and urban protection, clothing is many things to many people.
For BTB23, Fast, Fast, Slow featured a catwalk made from used clothing bales, video art, cinematic lighting, bold choreography and a specially commissioned electronic score. The audience were seated on either side of the catwalk, VIP style as part of this high fashion event. The performance was both local and global, personal and political and zoomed out to explore the impact of fast fashion and the dynamics of place and power.
This project was co-commissioned with The Super Slow Way.
Pleas email evie@commonwealththeatre.co.uk if you’re interested in showing or touring this production.