Panel 4: Performativity

Face Off: The Provocation and possibilities of masks and head coverings. An online symposium hosted by the Manchester Fashion Institute on 13 and 14 January 2021 to explore the agency of face masks and head coverings across different chronologies, cultures and geographies ---------------------------- Chair: Dr Sophie Wood, Regents University, UK PAPER 1: Colleen Hill, Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, USA Title of Paper: Fill in the Blank: Masking at Maison Martin Margiela PAPER 2: Ksenia Gusarova, Russia State University for the Humanities, Russia Title of Paper: Cracked Enamel: The materiality of nineteenth-century make-up PAPER 3: Dr Sian Bonnell, MMU, UK Title of Paper: Hiding in Plain Sight: Women, Play and Empowerment: Some ludic aspects of masks and head coverings.