Materiaalin muisti
Kevätuhrin (1913) puvustuksen kertomaa
Abstract
The article explores the production of the costumes for The Rite of Spring (1913) and how these costumes signified in contemporary contexts in order to extrapolate on the ways in which these costumes have been made to confirm to an orientalised narrative of the troupe that performed this work and of Russianness more generally. To perceive the role costumes play in the recollection and re-performance of a past work requires methodological pluralism and questioning how the concepts of archive and performance function in the discourse. Studied in detail, the materiality of the costume in a museum’s collection may well challenge prevailing assumptions about the content and significance of a canonised art work, as well as the kinds of authorship involved in making past performance. As such, they can even challenge what is considered worth remembering in the history of the art form and why.
