Performing Creative Work in Public

Abstract

This chapter addresses artistic research through the concept of co-costuming in public—a material-discursive practice between humans and more-than-human materialities with co-creational potentials. The chapter documents how co-costumed entanglements cultivate the wearers’ sociomaterial relation-spatial sensitivity towards each other as well as towards other humans and more-than-human materialities.

It is argued that co-costumed phenomena transform the wearers creatively. This is a critical as well as a speculative “world-making” process to playfully co-reflect, co-respond, co-invent, co-sense, co-think and co-learn in the situation. Moreover, it is suggested that artistic research is a material-discursive practice where knowledge is an ongoing co-creational and situational process.

• author: Østergaard, Charlotte
• organization: Teachers (Malmö Theatre Academy)
• publishing date: 2024-01-19
• type: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
• publication status: published
• subject: Performing Arts
• keywords: costume, Costumed perfomance, walking
• host publication: Creative Work : Conditions, Context and Practice - Conditions, Context and Practice
• series title: Routledge Research in the Creative and Cultural Industries
• editor: Andersson Cederholm, Erika ; Lindgvist, Katja ; de Wit Sandström, Ida and Warkander, Philip
• edition: 1st editio
• pages: 189 pages
• publisher: Routledge
• ISBN: 9781032509792
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003402688
• project: Crafting material bodies - exploring co-creative costume processes
• language: English
• LU publication?: yes
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