[Candrama] CfP Studies in Costume and Performance Issue 5.1: Costume Ethics

[Marlis Schweitzer]

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*Call for papers: /Studies in Costume and Performance/*

*Issue 5.1 - ‘Costume Ethics’*

*/Studies in Costume and Performance/*//invites submissions for issue 
5.1 (due May 2020) on the theme of *‘Costume Ethics’*.

 From conception to reception, costume has the potential to complicate 
political, moral, and aesthetic systems that flatten costumes into 
bodies and bodies into costumes.

This issue addresses the risky act of costuming, magnified when 
considering how costume performs notions of gender, race, national and 
cultural identity as well as how costume authorship is attributed. 
Whether acts of cultural appropriation or the apparent invisibility of 
costume designers and makers within the analysis of bodily art 
practices, the intersection between ethical relativism and the potential 
for costume to claim bodies – to (dis)empower, enact politics, or be 
risky – exposes the critical territory and social paradoxes that acts of 
costuming negotiate.

Following Critical Costume 2018 international conference and exhibition, 
this issue asks what are the principal opportunities and challenges that 
the provocation(s) of *‘costume ethics’* poses to designers, artists, 
and scholars. It aims to approach the peculiarity of costume as a 
liminal method of appearance that is consciously designed and performed. 
Yet, this same transitional state can partition costume as unstable 
(when compared to normative orders of bodily representation) that 
highlights an innate ‘risk’ inherent within the design, construction and 
wearing of costume.

We invite contributions that debate the permissibility, authorship, or 
risk of costume and costuming.

Articles may address topics including but not limited to:

-*Costume censorship: *ownership and the collaborative processes of 
costume design; makers of costume and systems of recognition; 
anti-theatricality and costume, interdisciplinarity and the 
(in)visibility of costume.

-*Risky costumes*: protesting through costume; danger and costuming; 
social norms and costumed-participation; violence and costume; live art 
and costuming; the agency of costume in performance on stage, screen and 
street.

-*Costuming as an (un)ethical act*: Ethical models of costume 
construction and design; sustainability and costume; cultural 
appropriation and costuming; representation and costumed-bodies; 
morality and costume.

-*Queering costume*: Queering as a critical methodology for costume 
theory; Queer theory and acts of costuming; queering bodies, costuming 
and gender(ed) performances; representations of queer bodies in 
performance and media; Queer practices/cultures of costume.

*Please submit your article by 1^st July 2019 *through the 
following*link:* 
https://www.intellectbooks.com/submit/studies-in-costume-performance

The journal is double-blind peer-reviewed in order to maintain the 
highest standards of scholastic integrity. Articles must not exceed 
4000–6000 words including notes and references.

In addition to articles, /Studies in Costume and Performance/ welcomes 
*other formats of submission*: visual essays, research reports or 
analyses of research documents, and reviews.

For further information, please email the editors:

Donatella Barbieri, d.barbieri at fashion.arts.ac.uk 
<mailto:d.barbieri at fashion.arts.ac.uk>
Sofia Pantouvaki, sofia.pantouvaki at aalto.fi 
<mailto:sofia.pantouvaki at aalto.fi>
Suzanne Osmond, suzanne.osmond at nida.edu.au 
<mailto:suzanne.osmond at nida.edu.au>

/Studies in Costume and Performance/brings together scholars and 
critically engaged practitioners and designers working in the fields of 
scenography, costume, performance, curation, and fashion to facilitate 
critical discourse on costume and its relationship with performance.

For more details on the journal’s scope and aims, as well as past and 
current editions, please visit:

https://www.intellectbooks.com/studies-in-costume-performance

Dr. Sofia Pantouvaki

Professor of Costume Design for Theatre and Film

/Costume in Focus/Research Group Leader

Editor, /Studies in Costume and Performance <http://bit.ly/1nkWkbL>/

Principal Investigator, /Costume Methodologies/ research project (2014-2018)

Recent publications

Pantouvaki, S. (2018). *‘“Like Seeing Normal Life”: Children’s opera 
Brundibár in Theresienstadt (1943-1944) and the power of scenographic 
metaphors’ 
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23322551.2018.1541123>*

Pantouvaki, S. & S. Lotker (eds.) (2017). */The Tribes – A Walking 
Exhibition <https://prospero.divadlo.cz/en/pq/97433680/>/*

Aalto University |School of Arts, Design & Architecture |Department of 
Film, Television and Scenography

E: sofia.pantouvaki at aalto.fi <mailto:sofia.pantouvaki at aalto.fi>

M: +358 50 5992288

Postal address: P.O.Box 13300, FI-00076 AALTO, Helsinki, Finland

Street address: Otaniementie 14, 02150 Espoo, Finland

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