Costume Design 20|10 Research (artist-researcher)

Contribution to the Costume Design 20|10 Research exhibition:

[ATGB_performance_20230524] BioCostumes-as-documentation

Performance costumes coloured with beetroot vegetable, lemon fruit, sodium bicarbonate, body fluids, water, on European hemp fabric.

These costume garments are research data that inform my ongoing thesis “BioCostume: Experimental Costume Design with Biobased Co-Actants”. As artefacts they currently document the processes of colouring with Beta vulgaris, the beetroot vegetable, that took place before and during the May 24th 2023 performance of As Time Goes By, a contemporary dance work that also serves as a testing-site for my artistic research. More information on the tags that are attached to the costumes.

As doctoral candidate I am affiliated with the research groups Costume in Focus and Fashion/Textile Futures. My work is supported by the Research Council of Finland funded research project BioColour (Bio-based Dyes and Pigments for Colour Palette). The ATGB performance is produced by Open-ended ry and Zodiak-Centre for new dance.

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