Sammendrag
What can happen when you choose an untraditional starting point, as costumes, when creating a performance? What if things as garments and fabrics are the ones that initiates, guides and decides the development towards a performance? What dramaturgies will the costume create if it is being “listened to” and how does it connect all elements involved in a performative event, including the audience?
Costume Agency is funded by the Norwegian Artistic Research Program, it took place 2018-2022. The research goal was to explore the performative potential of garments holistically. It included 24 designers, 24 performers, 12 light designers, a reference group and several institutions - and it lead to 22 performances. Each performance that was developed is different - different material, topic, approach. The amount of work and resources towards each work was less than in most stage productions, but this was a rapid prototyping approach that within limited constraints provided a rich and diverse set of approaches to how the agency of costume can unfold and be actuated and researched.
The costume has implications for the performer as well as the viewer, and these might differ. The performer experiences from within that the costume affords certain behaviours. The viewer experiences the costumed body with an outside eye, and this offers different sets of readings.
We have explored costume as sounding wearable, costume at the boundary between private/intimate and public space, as habitat, as layers of gender, costume as mirror, costume and perceived affordance. Costume when the body is not there, costume as animated materiality.
Now it is time to reflect on the many findings! In this presentation the main researchers will present some findings from the research, focusing on costume dramaturgies as connective materiality.
Vis fullstendig beskrivelse