Project

The Sun Is Just Another Star
Summer 2022
Graduation Project Central Saint Martins

Categories

Creative Direction 
Spatial Design 
Costume Design 
Content Production 

About

‘The Sun is Just Another Star’ is a performance piece by Emma Alvin that seeks to understand the theatrics in online renderings of the cute, humorous, and nonsensical. Taking these subjects offline reveals that contemporary aesthetic movements such as the ‘Sad Girl’ or ‘Cute but Psycho’ cosplay on apps like TikTok and Tumblr are merely modernized conceptions of traditional theatre play like the romantic clown mime and puppeteering. To explore these dynamics, several acts were staged and performed live, combining poetry, absurd costuming (a two-meter-tall tulle dog), and drama.

The work bears the imprint of Dadaism - playing with sense making contra complete nonsense, within the framework of online freebleeding and cringe culture.

Credits

Photography
Harry Freegard
Iris Luz

Poetry
Hedda Röök 
Nina Kihlborg

Graphic Design
Coumba Samba

Makeup 
Echo Seireeni
Dudu

Actors 
Lesley Li
Mei Cheng
Jaime Del Fresno
Rayus Seth
Rose Grover
Sabine Galvez
Georgie Udale

Models 
Zhuo Chen
Carola Monteleone
Zhuo Chen
Raad Gabril
Anna Maria Koronkiewicz

Special Thanks

Zac Klein 
Ana Viktoria Dzinic 
Per Larsson