UPCYCLING AS A CREATIVE PERSPECTIVE IN CRUOR ARTE CONTEMPORÂNEA SCENE COSTUME
Upcycling; Costume; Creation process; Cruor Arte Contemporânea; Action research.
This research deals with an investigation about the creation process in developing scenic costumes in the Cruor Arte Contemporânea—a contemporary art coalition in Natal, RN, Brazil. In order to do so, this study dialogues with the Alison Gwilt’s concept of Upcycling, whose technique has been adopted as a creative perspective mainly to fashion, and that I apply when developing costumes, having as main aesthetic reference guiding the crossing between life and work of the Mexican plastic artist Frida Kahlo, the Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, the French artist Antonin Artaud and the Brazilian artist Artur Bispo do Rosario investigating how these references dialogue with fashion and the construction of costumes for scenes. Being a study that involves my own practice as an artist-costume designer, I bring action research as the methodological base, especially from David Tripp, focusing on the interaction between the subject and his research object, in view of this relationship, considering my action as an artist-researcher and adopting as methods the research journal, photographic and video recording, and typical techniques of the fashion area and the creation of costumes such as moulage and sketch. This study starts with an introduction on my approach with my object of study linked to the dialogue between fashion and costumes under the perspectives of Fayga Ostrower, Adriana Leite and Lisette Guerra, in addition to Stanislavski and Lipovetsky. Following comes the research object that is developed in the coalition entitled Cruor Arte Contemporânea presenting the methodological paths that were taken. Finally, the issues related to the scope of the costume creation process in the Laboratory of Creation, Execution and Maintenance of Costumes for the Scene are described, as well as the Upcycling concept as a creative and methodological practice in the costume designer's practice.