Runa Borch Skolseg is a writer of novels, plays and critics, 1/2 curator of MIND EATER (Oslo) and a really bad, but hopeful collector.
Dressed to Act
Costume as Dramaturgical Engine
“Costume does not simply dress a body; it co-produces it—it is an event that reorganises how a body can appear and act.”
Long Read by Runa Borch Skolseg
23 Mar, 2026
Marvin M’Toumo: Rectum Crocodile. Photo by Pauline Scotto Di Cesare
Trajal Harrell: Antigone Sr. Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (L), American Realness Festival, New York, 2013. Photo by Whitney Browne
Trajal Harrell, Judson Church is Ringing in Harlem (Made-to-Measure) / Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (M2M), The Kitchen New York, 2014. Photo by Paula Court
Trajal Harrell, Judson Church is Ringing in Harlem (Made-to-Measure) / Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (M2M), Danspace Project New York, 2012. Photo by Miana Jun
Trajal Harrell, Antigone Sr. Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (L), American Realness Festival, New York, 2013. Photo by Whitney Browne
Marvin M’Toumo: Rectum Crocodile. Photo by Albane Durand-Viel
Fredrik Floen:…on the lips of living men. Photo by Rumi Baumann
Soa Ratsifandrihana: Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna. Photo by Harilay Rabenjamina
Thibault Lac: Blue Roses. Photo by Julie Folly
Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust: Fine Flowers. Photo by Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust
Florentina Holzinger: Apollon. Photo by Radovan Dranga
Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira: Repertório N.1. Photo by Genevieve Reese