Diana Magri

I AM MS.MUGWUMP
Mask of the Repressed Unconscious.

Costume designer & ritual artist.
Investigating the connections between literature, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the post-human imaginary:
I build bodies that have no need for organs.
Second skins of latex, memory and oblivion.

This is my workshop.
This is my body becoming other.

Through costume I search for the voices choked by history.
I make them breathe, collapse, resurface.

The scenic ritual "Naked Lunch with Joan Vollmer" gives a body back to Joan.
To make her return as Mugwump: weaver of silences and possibilities.

MsMugwump

A special thank you to:
Diana Del Franco @diana.delfranco for giving body to my imaginary character
Lea Celeste @everyday.xceleste for the fantastic prosthetic makeup
Carmine Covino @carmine_covino for the photos
Violetta Cottini @vyoleyt and Renato Grieco @___knn___ for adopting some of my creatures in their performances
Posto Segreto @postosegreto.it and Ubiskes3 @ubiskes3 for welcoming me during my early performance experiments
And above all to my big bro Massimiliano Chianese, for always being by my side on this journey started in 2023