An exhibition of live performance and installation exploring healing through the body and costume.
HOSSEI’s performances, installations and sculptural works combine his experiences as an educator and carer, with an abiding interest in costume, spectacle, ritual and choral performance. HOSSEI repurposes industrial and household items, building and hardware supplies, deadstock textiles, and other readily available materials as wearable costumes and accessories. Working collaboratively with seamstresses, HOSSEI embues his costumes with 'talismanic' properties; singing into bags so that the wearer can carry music with them, or placing lucky charms or blessings in the stitches of clothing to underscore their reparative potential.