Co-costuming as an opening for temporal socio-material entanglements : a dialogical process of co-wearing a connecting-costume
(2022)- Abstract
- This paper derives from the twelve-hour costume-based ‘performative-walk’ Community Walk that locomoted through the central area of Copenhagen on June 29, 2020. The frame for Community Walk was a bright yellow costume that physically connected two wearers and the concept of ‘walking and talking’. ‘Walking’ was physically sensing the co-wearer through the costume and jointly navigating and negotiating the costume, spectator(s), and urban elements/environment. ‘Talking’ was an investigation of what constitutes a community – where each of the twelve participant stories acted as entry points for the dialogue.
In Community Walk I, the researcher and costume designer, placed myself ‘in the center’ of the co-wearing entanglements. For... (More) - This paper derives from the twelve-hour costume-based ‘performative-walk’ Community Walk that locomoted through the central area of Copenhagen on June 29, 2020. The frame for Community Walk was a bright yellow costume that physically connected two wearers and the concept of ‘walking and talking’. ‘Walking’ was physically sensing the co-wearer through the costume and jointly navigating and negotiating the costume, spectator(s), and urban elements/environment. ‘Talking’ was an investigation of what constitutes a community – where each of the twelve participant stories acted as entry points for the dialogue.
In Community Walk I, the researcher and costume designer, placed myself ‘in the center’ of the co-wearing entanglements. For twelve hours I co-wore the costume with twelve different co-wearers – one hour with each of the twelve participating co-wearers. The twelve ‘walking and talking’ co-costumed entanglements felt almost like how waves spread around an obstacle or an opening. Some entanglement or diffracting patterns had communality and others was surprisingly different. Karen Barad writes that ‘we can understand diffraction patterns – as patterns of difference that make a difference – to be the fundamental constituents that makes up the world’ (Barad, 2002, p, 72).
Ingold suggest that ‘by investigating phenomena through practice rather than mere observation, one can capture the experiential nature of the practice and knowledge becomes transformational rather than documentational’ (Groth C. et al. 2020:4–5). Hence, it is through the active engagement I will investigate how the entangled nature of co-costuming acted as openings and/or obstacles for the co-wearers to become aware of, navigate and negotiate their communal and importantly their different experiences of co-wearing? More broadly my ambition is to discuss, how can we through and with artistic interventions in public space and through and with our differences at sight can migrate towards each other perspectives and assumptions and thereby co-learn or co-educate each other? (Less)
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- Østergaard, Charlotte LU
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- 2022-11-09
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- Contribution to conference
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- keywords
- co-creation, co-creative processes, co-creators, Costumed perfomance, costume, artistic resaerch, material-discursive practice, material-discursive listening
- project
- Crafting material bodies - exploring co-creative costume processes
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- Ahmed S. (2010), Orientation matters, In (Eds.) Coole D. & Frost S. (2010) New materialism – ontology, agency, and politics, Durham & London: Duke University Press, p. 234–257 Camilla Groth, Margherita Pevere, Kirsi Niinimäki, & Pirjo Kääriäinen (2020), Conditions for experiential knowledge exchange I collaborative research across the sciences and creative practive, International journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts, 11(3–4), published online Sep. 17, 2020 Donna Haraway (2017), Staying with the Trouble – Making Kin in the Chthulucene, Durham and London: Duke University Press. Eva Skærbæk (2009), Leaving home? The “worlds” of knowledge, love and power, In Bizzine S.C. & Malabotta M. R. (Eds.) 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, Health Care Anal, 19, Springer (open access), p. 41–50. Etienne Wenger (1998), Communities of Practice: Learning, meaning and identity (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives). Cambridge University Press. Kindle Edition. Jane Bennet (2010), Vibrant Matter – A Political Ecology of Things, Duke University Press Karen Barad (2007), Meeting the universe halfway – quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning, Duke University Press Lia Pinheiro Barbosa, L.R. (2019), The sentipensante and revolutionary pedagogies of Latin American social movements, Lápiz no. 4, 2019, the Latin American Philosophy of Education Society, p. 23–42 Marlou Juelskjær (2019), At tænke med agential realism, Nyt fra samfund og videnskaberne Tim Ingold (2016), On human correspondence, Journal of the royal anthropological institute (N.S.), 23(1), Royal Anthropological Institute, p. 9-27 Vivianne Bozalek & Michalinos Zembylas (2017), Towards a response-able pedagogy across higher education institution on post-apartheid South Africa: An ethico-political analysis, Education as change, 21(2), p. 62–85 Digital references: Walking Copenhagen https://www.metropolis.dk/en/walking-copenhagen/ Community Walk https://www.metropolis.dk/en/charlotte-oestergaard/, https://vimeo.com/646976084
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abstract = {{This paper derives from the twelve-hour costume-based ‘performative-walk’ Community Walk that locomoted through the central area of Copenhagen on June 29, 2020. The frame for Community Walk was a bright yellow costume that physically connected two wearers and the concept of ‘walking and talking’. ‘Walking’ was physically sensing the co-wearer through the costume and jointly navigating and negotiating the costume, spectator(s), and urban elements/environment. ‘Talking’ was an investigation of what constitutes a community – where each of the twelve participant stories acted as entry points for the dialogue. <br/>In Community Walk I, the researcher and costume designer, placed myself ‘in the center’ of the co-wearing entanglements. For twelve hours I co-wore the costume with twelve different co-wearers – one hour with each of the twelve participating co-wearers. The twelve ‘walking and talking’ co-costumed entanglements felt almost like how waves spread around an obstacle or an opening. Some entanglement or diffracting patterns had communality and others was surprisingly different. Karen Barad writes that ‘we can understand diffraction patterns – as patterns of difference that make a difference – to be the fundamental constituents that makes up the world’ (Barad, 2002, p, 72). <br/>Ingold suggest that ‘by investigating phenomena through practice rather than mere observation, one can capture the experiential nature of the practice and knowledge becomes transformational rather than documentational’ (Groth C. et al. 2020:4–5). Hence, it is through the active engagement I will investigate how the entangled nature of co-costuming acted as openings and/or obstacles for the co-wearers to become aware of, navigate and negotiate their communal and importantly their different experiences of co-wearing? More broadly my ambition is to discuss, how can we through and with artistic interventions in public space and through and with our differences at sight can migrate towards each other perspectives and assumptions and thereby co-learn or co-educate each other?}},
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