Costume as kin-making material

Charlotte Østergaard

Abstract

This presentation aims to discuss and unfold costume strategies that build on ecofeminist Donna Haraway’s notion of ‘making kin’. As an artistic researcher, I advocate that awakening artistic curiosity and openness towards materialities is cultivated through co-creative practices of thinking-with ‘a host of companions in sympoietic’ (Haraway 2016: 31). Haraway argues that kinship is not a given but requires attention, perseverance, and care among humans (performers or wearers) and non-humans (costume understood as crafted vibrant matter). Kin-making is “becoming” together – a process where human bodies and more-than human materialities are equally valuable. In the context of costume, ‘making kin’ suggests a relational-sensible process that requires that humans are willing to listen to and be affected by the crafted vibrant materialities.

Original language	English
Publication status	Unpublished - 2023
Event	CROCUS meeting: materialitet - Inter Arts Center, Malmö, Sweden Duration: 2023 Mar 17 → 2023 Mar 17 https://www.iac.lu.se/events/crocus-network-meeting/

Seminar

Seminar	CROCUS meeting
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Malmö
Period	2023/03/17 → 2023/03/17
Internet address	https://www.iac.lu.se/events/crocus-network-meeting/

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Performing Arts

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costume thinking
material thinking
material agency
kin-making

1 Doctoral Thesis (artistic)

Crafting material bodies: exploring co-creative costume processes
Østergaard, C., 2024 Dec 16, Malmö: Malmö Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, Lund University.
Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis (artistic)

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Crafting material bodies - exploring co-creative costume processes
Østergaard, C. (Researcher)
2020/01/01 → …
Project: Dissertation

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