Critical Costume 2015: Curatorial Approaches and Transmedia Display Practices in Exhibiting Performance Costume

This article discusses the curatorial approach and the exhibition design practices employed for the Critical Costume 2015 exhibition, with special focus on the concepts of mediated costume and projected costume as paradigms that indicate the emergence of innovations in the field of costume design and, consequently, on presenting performance costumes in an exhibition context. The article analyses the combination of different physical and mediated display formats that co-create a transmedia design approach to exhibiting costume – an approach that offers rich and expanded exhibition experiences. This analysis of the design and display solutions that were researched and eventually used in the Critical Costume 2015 exhibition aims to highlight recent trends in the field and to contribute to the discourse on exhibiting contemporary performance costume.