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Recycled / discarded / eco materials and costume design / installaton

The paper is a presentaton of theoretc and practcal processes and results of applied costume design workshops on the topic of recycling, organized from 2013 to 2015 by the Faculty of Textle Technology, University of Zagreb (Department of Costume Design) (Croata), Faculty of Applied Arts, Belgrade (Serbia) and Faculty of Design, Associate Member of the University of Primorska in Trzin (Slovenia). Workshop authors were costume designers Ljiljana Petrović, Ivana Bakal and Mateja Benedet. The brainstorming workshops allow costume designer to choose the best approach to costume design and making. For the process itself it is less important whether costume designer is dealing with well-defned dramaturgic structure within the traditonal theatre, or visual theatre grounded in visual elements, i. e. with costume design/installaton or object that turns into subject only when placed into a given performance space. The elements of costume constructon are recycled materials exclusively, such as old newspapers, plastc materials, wire constructons or rejected objects. In the context of contemporary art and design these works of art send out strong ecological messages, and at the same tme reveal the possibility of creatng works of art with minimum fnancial investment, which is an indispensable quality in the everyday routne of costume designers. Recycling and ecology seem like a natural choice of materials and methods in a world overwhelmed by polluton and fnancial recession. As materials, they need not be seen as “a lesser” evil only, but can also be seen as both, triggers of artstc creatvity, and of a different attude towards society, i. e. environmental protecton. The results of works of art created out of eco/recycled/discarded materials are ofen equal in quality or even more creatve and innovatve than traditonal materials used in traditonally oriented costume design.

costume design / recycling / visual theatre

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