The Stone That Spoke
Forthcoming Project for 2024
This video installation, developed from
the experiential performance of the same name,
features three Ukrainian artists finding inspiration in Hastings Castle
and in the stones below it on Hastings’ shore that prompts their
exploration of the journeys of medieval women from their city of birth.
Elizabeth Isadora,
Catherine Rajhans and Anna Smirnova
explore Kievan Rus princesses
Anastasia, Elisiv and Anna of Kyiv who
travelled Europe 1000 years ago.
The performers had not been aware of
these inspirational female travellers before
they left Kyiv in the Russian conflict of 2022. The women feel connection in their present landscape
to the many areas in Europe linked to their medieval forebears.
These places are, after all, lands that, in an unpredictable world,
the performers might one day find themselves calling home.