Fashion, Performance, and Performativity: The Complex Spaces of Fashion (Dress Cultures)

In the first comprehensive study of the interactions between fashion, performance and performativity, a group of international experts explore fashion as the ideal 'complex space' – or, in other words, the ideal space where performance and performativity come together, according to the works of seminal theorists Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Andrew Parker. Bringing together western and non-western, historical and contemporary case studies and theories, the book explores the magazines, photography, exhibitions, global colonial divides, digital media, and more, which have become key markers of the fashion industry as we know it today. Using existing literature as a springboard and incorporating perspectives from fashion studies, art history, media studies and gender studies, as well as from artists and practitioners, __Fashion, Performance, and Performativity__ is an innovative and essential work for students, scholars and practitioners across multiple disciplines. Section 1. Transformations and translations. Leigh Bowery: between performance and performativity ; Francesca Granata, The new school parsons, New York, USA ; Emphatic objects: representing refugees through clothing / Marco Pecorari ; Creating the object/performing the subject: self-performances between art and life in Leonor Fini's Oeuvre / Andrea Kollnitz ; Beliefs/ritual related to the Emirati Burqa / Karima Al-Shomely, Kingston University, London, UK Section -- Section 2. Stages and places. In store(d) behaviors: on Tsuneko Taniuchi's poetics of performance / Emmanuel Cohen, The New School Parsons, Paris, France ; Fashion, performance and the bare flaneuse / Jacki Willson, University of Leeds, UK ; Colonies and clothing: the uses of fashion at the intersection of France and West Africa / Victoria L. Rovine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA ; Wiping the slate clean: the utopian 'no-place' of the fashion photograph / Karen de Perthuis, Western Sydney University, Australia -- Section 3. Technologies and techniques. Expanding the fashion experience: fashion photographic imagery and the act of storytelling in digital media / Lee Wright, Liverpool John Moores University, UK ; Traversing the screen: the performative dynamic between clothing, wearer and viewer of dress based performance films / Jessica Bugg, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia '; None but those whose courage is unquestionable can venture to be effeminate': fashioned performance and the dandy novel / Royce Mahawatte, Central Saint Martins, London, UK ; Italian model? Rethinking the discourse on national identity through the body / Gabriele Monti, IUAV University of Venice, Italy Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Transformations and Translations Chapter 1: Leigh Bowery and Judith Butler: Between Performance and Performativity Chapter 2: The Emirati Burqa : “An Intimate Object” from a Cultural, Historical, and Contemporary Art Perspective Chapter 3: Written in the Voice: Tommy Roberts and the Oral History of British Fashion—A Case Study in Vocality, the Narratable Self, and Memory Part II: Stages and Places Chapter 4: In Store(d) Behaviors: Tsuneko Taniuchi’s Poetics of Clothed Performance Chapter 5: The Fashioned Female Body, Performativity, and the Bare Flaneuse Chapter 6: Colonies and Clothing: The Uses of Fashion in Interwar France and West Africa Chapter 7: From Lil Miquela to Shudu: Digital Slavery and the Twenty-First-Century Racialized Performance of Identity Politics Part III: Models and Poses Chapter 8: The Utopian “No-Place” of the Fashion Photograph Chapter 9: Italian Fashion Models: Rethinking the Discourse on National Identity Chapter 10: Films with a Vengeance: Lesbian Desire and Hyper-Violence in the Fashion Film, 2009–12 Chapter 11: Male Gender Performance and Regency Fashion Writing Contributors Index "In the first comprehensive study of the interactions between fashion, performance and performativity, a group of international experts explore fashion as the ideal 'complex space' -- or, in other words, the ideal space where performance and performativity come together, according to the works of seminal theorists Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Andrew Parker. Bringing together western and non-western, historical and contemporary case studies and theories, the book explores the magazines, photography, exhibitions, global colonial divides, digital media, and more, which have become key markers of the fashion industry as we know it today. Using existing literature as a springboard and incorporating perspectives from fashion studies, art history, media studies and gender studies, as well as from artists and practitioners, Fashion, Performance & Performativity is an innovative and essential work for students, scholars and practitioners across multiple disciplines."-- Provided by publisher