Charlotte Østergaard
Doktorand
Listening through and with costume : A dialogical performance-making process
Författare
Summary, in English
In performance contexts we often perceive costume as visual expression and as something that servers something else. The objective of this presentation is to discuss costume’s performance-making potential. How can listening through and with costume become a performance-making strategy? With a few historical and examples from own research practice the ambition is to expand the notion of costumes as a scenic and world-making agent.
In Orientation Matters Sara Ahmed write that ‘bodies as well as objects shape though being orientated towards each other. An orientation that may be experienced as the cohabitation sharing of space’ (Ahmed, 2010:245). This suggest that it is through and with the costume (and it’s crafted materialities) that we, designer and performer, are orientated towards each other. Hence, it is by sharing and navigating between our different ways of being affected by observing and inhabiting costume that a potential shared or co-creative space occurs. Ahmed continues ‘if orientation affects what bodies do, then they also affect how space take shape around certain bodies’ (Ahmed, 2010:250). This indicates the way that we dialogically share our difference individual experiences will affect the way we co-inhabit the co-creative space. In otder to cultivate a co-creative culture indicates that I, the designer and researcher, have an ethical responsa-ability (Barad 2007) to listen to how a costume affects a performer with the awareness of that how a costume affects one performer doesn’t equal how another performer are affected. I propose that it is in the dialogical process of negotiating through and with the costume that we can co-explore and co-create a scenic ‘world’. A co-creative process where the costume ‘has the ability to instigate performance and tell a story in its own right’ (Marshall 2020:165). In performance-making process, in our openness and willingness to ‘make kin’ (Haraway 2016) with crafted materialities ¬costume offers us a co-creative space ‘to debate and navigate the world’s becomings’ (Pantouvaki et al. 2021, p. 202).
In Orientation Matters Sara Ahmed write that ‘bodies as well as objects shape though being orientated towards each other. An orientation that may be experienced as the cohabitation sharing of space’ (Ahmed, 2010:245). This suggest that it is through and with the costume (and it’s crafted materialities) that we, designer and performer, are orientated towards each other. Hence, it is by sharing and navigating between our different ways of being affected by observing and inhabiting costume that a potential shared or co-creative space occurs. Ahmed continues ‘if orientation affects what bodies do, then they also affect how space take shape around certain bodies’ (Ahmed, 2010:250). This indicates the way that we dialogically share our difference individual experiences will affect the way we co-inhabit the co-creative space. In otder to cultivate a co-creative culture indicates that I, the designer and researcher, have an ethical responsa-ability (Barad 2007) to listen to how a costume affects a performer with the awareness of that how a costume affects one performer doesn’t equal how another performer are affected. I propose that it is in the dialogical process of negotiating through and with the costume that we can co-explore and co-create a scenic ‘world’. A co-creative process where the costume ‘has the ability to instigate performance and tell a story in its own right’ (Marshall 2020:165). In performance-making process, in our openness and willingness to ‘make kin’ (Haraway 2016) with crafted materialities ¬costume offers us a co-creative space ‘to debate and navigate the world’s becomings’ (Pantouvaki et al. 2021, p. 202).
Avdelning/ar
- Lärare (Teaterhögskolan)
Publiceringsår
2022
Språk
Engelska
Dokumenttyp
Konferensbidrag: abstract
Ämne
- Performing Arts
- Design
Nyckelord
- Costume design
- Crafting
- Co-wearing
- Artistic research
- Keynote
- Co-creation
Conference name
15th NOFOD conference
Conference date
2022-07-05 - 2022-07-08
Conference place
Copenhagen, Denmark
Aktiv
Published
Projekt
- Crafting material bodies - exploring co-creative costume processes