Workshop
Tue 22 Mar 2022
AweAre
Academy of Music and Drama at the University of Gothenburg
Participants
A workshop programmed as part of the Embodiment research strand of the fourth biennial research conference on Violence.
Date: Tuesday 22 March 2022
Time: 13:00-16:00
Place: Högskolan för scen och musik, A304 Malmgrenstudion
Address: Högskolan för scen och musik, Fågelsången 1, 412 56 Göteborg
Language: English
In this explorative workshop I introduce the concept of co-costuming by inviting the participant to wear, explore and reflect on the bodily effects of costumes that connects two wearers. As researcher, I ask the participants to confront the ethically dimensions of the co-costumed experience (costumes that I produced and impose on wearers) that potentially is quite playful and, at the same time, bodily and socially restricts and/or exposes the co-wearers. No prior costume, dance or other knowledge or qualifications is needed to participate.
Co-costuming in connecting-costumes:
The structure of the costumes connects two wearers which in the wearing creates a dependency between the co-wearers. The co-dependency is ambiguous in the sense that if one wearer follows her/his own movement impulses, it, at the same time, might oppress the impulses or ripple into the movements of the co-wearer – at the same time the co-wearers collaboratively need to navigate the surroundings together. Therefor the experience of co-wearing potentially create 1) a hierarchy between the wearers, 2) a ‘playfull community’ between the co-wearers that exclude others and 3) exposes the wearer to the gaze of the others (to the co-wearer or/and by-passing people).
The workshop will be conducted in two phrases
Phrase one: The participants will in pairs of two explore the bodily effects of a collective wearing experience in hallways of the University or preferably outdoors in public space.
Practical information: The connecting part of the costumes allows the participants to keep distance from one another. The costumes can be worn on top on the participants own clothing.
The workshop will be in English but we will do our best to help facilitate multiple languages.
The workshop will be facilitated by MC Coble.
MC Coble (they/them) is a non-binary trans artist and educator who’s worked with performance art for over 20 years. Their practice revolves around trans*/queer/ feminists politics, play, failure and intersectional activism. Coble has recently taught the course Perspectives on Performativity and Feminist Artistic Practice at Högskolan för scen och musik and was a Senior Lecturer at Valand Academy until 2019.
For any questions please contact: mc@mccoble.com
This workshop is open to all but places are limited. Link to register: https://forms.gle/AakMN1hxVrTYPFMg9