A video that was screened as part of the 4 day exhibition Critical Costume 2024 Exhibition. 

The exhibition included videoart pieces by 8 artists. 

The film Hedda Gabler, is staged to show the relationship between costumedesign and other elements of production, such as the performer’s body, thedramatic text, directing, and the production design.We hypothesized that costume is a dynamic entity of garment, body, action, andcontext. To test our hypothesis, we decided to make a set-up: The performersperformed six versions of Scene IV, Act IV of the play Hedda Gabler, by HenrikIbsen. We made three of the components as stable as possible; the actors werethe same, the actors performed as similarly as possible, and the context was thesame – an apartment in the upper town of Oslo. One component changed in eachof the six versions: the costume of the main character, Hedda Gabler.To capture the effect of the change of costume, the actors were intervieweddirectly after each version. The actors were asked how the costume impactedthem. The actors said they never thought that costume could have such a hugeeffect. One actor said the costume change had a “domino effect.”