Ethical dilemmas of stretching towards Others in fitting situations
(2022) In Russian Fashion Theory special issue on performance and clothing(66(3)). p.35-35- Abstract
- This article stretches the situatedness of costume fitting to include dressing and fitting into a connecting-costume in an urban environment. The author’s ambition is to study the ethical dilemmas that emerge in situations where participants are invited to fit into a costume that connects them to a co-wearer. Sara Ahmed writes that ‘bodies as well as objects shape though being orientated towards each other’ (Ahmed, 2010:245). This suggest that the object as the connecting-costume entanglement orientate the wearers towards each other and potentially towards different Others. However, in events and during specific situations the connecting-costume will most likely will expose and queer the wearers in an urban environment, hence the ethical... (More)
- This article stretches the situatedness of costume fitting to include dressing and fitting into a connecting-costume in an urban environment. The author’s ambition is to study the ethical dilemmas that emerge in situations where participants are invited to fit into a costume that connects them to a co-wearer. Sara Ahmed writes that ‘bodies as well as objects shape though being orientated towards each other’ (Ahmed, 2010:245). This suggest that the object as the connecting-costume entanglement orientate the wearers towards each other and potentially towards different Others. However, in events and during specific situations the connecting-costume will most likely will expose and queer the wearers in an urban environment, hence the ethical dilemma is how does the researcher craft conditions in a way that makes the wearers fit-able to stretch themselves towards each other. One dilemma is that situating fitting in the urban environment suggests that several conditions most likely are out of the researcher’s control. Another dilemma is that even if the researcher also crafts the connecting-costume the question is if the researcher can predict or even imagine how the crafted materialities will craft wearers including how wearers fit one another? Eva Skærbæk writes about Løgstrup’s philosophy of the ethical demand that ‘ethics is the responsibility of I, the demand is personal’ (Skærbæk 2011:45). Skærbæk’s words suggest that research is an ethical call towards the researcher including that the researcher are responsible for what the research crafts. Hence, even if several conditions are out of the researcher’s control and event if the researcher cannot predict how the wearers respond to the conditions ¬– the researcher are responsible for how she craft conditions including that she in the specific situations must attend and respond to what the specific conditions crafts. This article argues that in order to create conditions for wearers to become fit-able to stretch themselves towards Others the researcher has ethical responsibility to have a critical awareness of the specificity of the situations. The researcher must critically be aware of, attend and respond to how the situation craft the wearers as well as that the researcher must learn from the responses of the wearers. (Less)
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- Østergaard, Charlotte LU
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- 2022
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- costume, Costumed perfomance, costume thinking, costume research, artistic resaerch
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- Russian Fashion Theory
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- special issue on performance and clothing
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- 66(3)
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- 51 pages
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- Crafting material bodies - exploring co-creative costume processes
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- Russian
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- Camilla Groth, Margherita Pevera, Kirsi Niinimäki &Pirjo Kääriänen (2020), Conditions for experiential knowledge exchange in collaborative research across the sciences and creative practice, CoDesign, DOI: 10.1080/15710882.2020.1821713. Charlotte Østergaard (2020) The Fitting Room – communities of practice and the ambiguity of touch, Critical Costume 2020, online conference, https://costumeagency.com/project/charlotte-ostergaard/ Donna Haraway (1988), Situated knowledge: the science question in feminism and the privilege if partial perspective, Feminist Studies, 14(3), p. 575¬–599 Donna Haraway (2017), Staying with the Trouble – Making Kin in the Chthulucene, Durham and London: Duke University Press Eva Skærbæk, E. (2009), Leaving Home? The ‘worlds’ of knowledge, love and power, in Teaching Subjectivity, Travelling selves for feminist pedagogy, Athena, p. 47-67 Eva Skærbæk (2011), Navigating in the landscape of care: a critical reflection on theory and practice of care and ethics, Journal of health care analysis, Online Oct. 2010, in journal June 2011, p. 41–50 Sara Ahmed (2010), Orientation matters, In (Eds.) Coole D. & Frost S. (2010) New materialism – ontology, agency, and politics, Durham & London: Duke University Press, p. 234–257 Sara Ahmed (2006), Queer Phenomenology, Karen Barad (2007), Meeting the universe halfway – quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning, Duke University Press Madeline Taylor (2021), Building Costumes, Building Language in the Costume Workshop, In Pantouvaki, S. & Peter McNeil, P. (Eds.): Performance Costume: New Perspectives and Method, Bloomsbury Publishing. Kindle Edition, p. 263–276. Digital references from events: Walking Copenhagen (2022), Metropolis, DK https://www.metropolis.dk/en/walking-copenhagen/ Community Walk (2020), DK https://www.metropolis.dk/en/charlotte-oestergaard/ & https://vimeo.com/646976084 AweAre workshop (2022), Parse Conference, SE https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/717852621 Connect (2022), SWOP festival, DK https://swopfestival.dk/en/connect/
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abstract = {{This article stretches the situatedness of costume fitting to include dressing and fitting into a connecting-costume in an urban environment. The author’s ambition is to study the ethical dilemmas that emerge in situations where participants are invited to fit into a costume that connects them to a co-wearer. Sara Ahmed writes that ‘bodies as well as objects shape though being orientated towards each other’ (Ahmed, 2010:245). This suggest that the object as the connecting-costume entanglement orientate the wearers towards each other and potentially towards different Others. However, in events and during specific situations the connecting-costume will most likely will expose and queer the wearers in an urban environment, hence the ethical dilemma is how does the researcher craft conditions in a way that makes the wearers fit-able to stretch themselves towards each other. One dilemma is that situating fitting in the urban environment suggests that several conditions most likely are out of the researcher’s control. Another dilemma is that even if the researcher also crafts the connecting-costume the question is if the researcher can predict or even imagine how the crafted materialities will craft wearers including how wearers fit one another? Eva Skærbæk writes about Løgstrup’s philosophy of the ethical demand that ‘ethics is the responsibility of I, the demand is personal’ (Skærbæk 2011:45). Skærbæk’s words suggest that research is an ethical call towards the researcher including that the researcher are responsible for what the research crafts. Hence, even if several conditions are out of the researcher’s control and event if the researcher cannot predict how the wearers respond to the conditions ¬– the researcher are responsible for how she craft conditions including that she in the specific situations must attend and respond to what the specific conditions crafts. This article argues that in order to create conditions for wearers to become fit-able to stretch themselves towards Others the researcher has ethical responsibility to have a critical awareness of the specificity of the situations. The researcher must critically be aware of, attend and respond to how the situation craft the wearers as well as that the researcher must learn from the responses of the wearers.}},
author = {{Østergaard, Charlotte}},
keywords = {{costume; Costumed perfomance; costume thinking; costume research; artistic resaerch}},
language = {{rus}},
number = {{66(3)}},
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title = {{Ethical dilemmas of stretching towards Others in fitting situations}},
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