Marvin Gaye Chetwynd: My experience

               Before a couple of days I finish my first practice period as an assistant costume maker for Marvin Gaye Chetwynd's exhibition in Nottingham Contemporary. The exhibition runs from the 25th of Jan to 23rd of March. It consists of a gallery which is full with some of Marvin's old projects (puppets, installation, movies, sculptures, etc) and 3 performances: "Diorama" & "Brain Bug" which are performed in the gallery and "The Green Room" performed in "The Space" hall. There was also a great camera presence because of a documentary about Marvin which is made by or going to be projected on BBC(couldn't find much information yet, will post it as soon as I see an article on BBC's website or got the information from one of the assistants in Nottingham Contemporary ). Assuredly, these series of events were planned to be huge.
              At the beginning, as I already mentioned, I was chosen to participate in "Brain Bug" as a performer. Afterwards, I spoke to Marvin (the designer and choreographer) if I could be useful in the costume making because I need such experience for my MA project and she gladly welcomed me "behind the stage". So I could sum up my involvement in the 2 performances on the following positions:

•  Brain Bug - dancer/performer, assistant costume maker,
•  The Green Room - assistant costume maker.

              During my experience in Marvin's creative team I learned many techniques and art approaches which I'll be sharing on my blog. Although my costume experience finish, the  Exhibition is still running in Gallery 4 (Nottingham Contemporary) with 3 more Brain Bug Performances left - 15th Feb, 1st Mar & 15th Mar. However, I plan to divide my posts here into

• 3 articles about created costumes during the practice with the techniques used, possible problems and solutions
• 1 article about my point of view for Marvin's costumes as a dancer
• 1 article about the exhibition and the variety of art pieces and different media it presents
• Articles (probably around 10 with interviews with Marvin, questionnaires with the audience, my analysis and conclusions)about my 2 case studies about the 2 performances : The Green Room and Brain Bug