This episode is based on a talk I gave for Innovative Costume of the 21st Century in Moscow, June 2019. It explores the idea of body assemblages as related to costume practices and design. It ends with a manifesto (detailed below) with the episode structured in five parts:

2:14 - 'The Body'

3:25 - Body Assemblages

5:26 - What can costume do?

7:38 - Bodies as intersectional

10:03 - Costume Orientations

11:41 - Kinaesthetic Empathy

15:53 - Manifesto

Manifesto for Body-Assemblages:

Bodies are always in process; an assemblage of parts

Body-assemblages perform differently each and every time (even if only at a cellular level)

Costuming others the normative body-assemblage

Costumes show the labour of appearance through acts of appearance

If bodies are assemblages,then costuming affords a methodology for complicating how bodies fit together.

Costume celebrates the power of non-human materials to affect very human acts of sociality and togetherness.

Costuming exposes the myth of ‘the body’; bodies are always multiple, porous and in process.

Costume investigates bodies caught in the act of appearance.