Art, design and magic : the process of composing a sartorial score conference : costume symposium, Arts Institute, Bournemouth

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The research project from which this article originated was funded through an AHRC small grant to Yvon Bonenfant with Ali Maclaurin as named collaborator/designer. The project was a conscious ‘next step’ in the collaborative work of the two individuals involved and aimed to develop further the costume’s role in performance creation beyond that of the wigs in ‘Acoustic-electric’. It challenged the received order by allowing the costume designer to begin the compositional process, by composing a costume as a score, through which the performer could create a new piece of work. Maclaurin’s research, undertaken independently of the AHRB project, began with the context in which a costume designer creates work, her creative process, and the relationship with her collaborator. As the context changed,the designer/researcher became an observer of the ‘empty’ costume as it left the designer, of the embodied costume as the performer worked with it and lastly of the dramatically imagined costume

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