Abstract
What are the research possibilities that costume offers beyond its crucial role in
co-creating characters and performances? This contribution focuses on performance costume as a means for new research and on processes of costume creation that enable new research methodologies to be established. When looking at costume not only as an artistic outcome integral to performance making – its most familiar and longstanding dimension – but also as a field for open-ended experimentation, costume’s research potential emerges from its practice. The chapter examines contemporary methods and approaches for costume research through the costume itself as methodological research ‘tool’.
co-creating characters and performances? This contribution focuses on performance costume as a means for new research and on processes of costume creation that enable new research methodologies to be established. When looking at costume not only as an artistic outcome integral to performance making – its most familiar and longstanding dimension – but also as a field for open-ended experimentation, costume’s research potential emerges from its practice. The chapter examines contemporary methods and approaches for costume research through the costume itself as methodological research ‘tool’.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Insubordinate Costume: Inspiring Performance |
| Editors | Susan Marshall |
| Place of Publication | New York / Oxon |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Chapter | Part 3 |
| Pages | 129-140 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Edition | 1st |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-003-34100-0 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-032-37598-4, 978-1-032-37597-7 |
| Publication status | Published - 16 Dec 2024 |
| MoE publication type | A3 Book section, Chapters in research books |