TALK TO ME 

Talk to me project was created as a need to communicate through body and material. Using my investigation in costume and movement as a starting point, I decided to create concrete limitations with different fabrics to experiment new frontiers to cross through and from the body. A new way of moving is created, a tension is established and underneath, there’s pulse, there’s flesh, there’s meat. Nice to meet you.

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The project proposes dialogue with oneself and with other artists. Communication is proposed; conversation begins. On it's 6th edition, Conversations of Talk to me have had diverse formats and collaborators from all fields such as visual arts, graphic design, photography, lighting design, music and others. The conversations became a way to experiment dialogue through performance in space, encountering the other, therefor myself.

Currently, the project was selected as part of the research projects of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (2018) entitled: Talk to me: feminine conversations between costume, body and movement. Investigating costume as body intervention embodying  the experiences the female body crosses through on a constant basis by the simple fact of being a women, the project will work only with female artists and collaborators. 

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Created as part of the final project for the Master in Fine Arts- Theatre Costume at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, the performance/installation/exhibition has been presented at KASK, Destudio, and CC tower in Antwerp, Lelac (Brussels) and the exhibition at Destudio was nominated for the Hugo Roelandt Prize 2016 . 
 

Credits:
Concept/Costume/Movement investigation/Performance: Renata Lamenza

For more information about the collaborations, please go to the page CONVERSATIONS