Connie Hickman

Lady Girl is an ongoing, site-responsive performance project that explores themes of ecological grief, memory, displacement, and care. Emerging as a fictional yet deeply personal figure, Lady Girl drifts through scarred and transitional landscapes—abandoned quarries, ancient woodlands, demolished mills, and urban developments—carrying bed sheets and unresolved longings.

Rooted in improvisation, Lady Girl’s actions are playful, awkward, and mournful—offering subtle, often absurd rituals of care in places marked by human impact. Through her, the boundary between self and character, performance and presence, becomes blurred. The project reflects on how we inhabit a world in ecological crisis, and how small gestures might hold space for both grief and transformation.

Lady Girl is not a hero, but a witness—her wanderings evoke the unresolved waiting of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, where the act of searching becomes the meaning itself.