We are looking for expressions of interest from a Costume Designer (either an individual, pair or collective) to contribute to a research and development period for new immersive moving image installation REIN, to develop costume design ideas for 6 key scenes, and to produce 4 costumes for a 1 day test shoot in November 2023. The final work will premiere as part of an international festival in 2025.

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Rate of Pay

The designer will be paid SAU rates of £270 per day

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Timeline

R&D: Autumn 2023 TBC

Work premiere: Autumn 2025

The Costume Designer will develop costumes for a series of kinky dyke characters. Incorporating historical dyke wear and paying attention to subculture groups such as Leather Daddies and High Femme Princesses the Costume Designer will bring a dramatic, other worldly, contemporary feel to the work whilst ensuring costumes are suitable for movement and filming in outdoor contexts. We are keen for the Costume Designer to also incorporate the work of queer makers in the UK, and this role is an opportunity to showcase the work of leather makers, sex toy creators and tailors alike. 

The work explores a cornucopia of dyke identities: daddies, brats, switchy princesses, bunnies, riggers, soft bois, service subs, trans dykes, poly dykes, stud dykes, baby dykes, bi dykes, asexual dykes, femme dykes, elder dykes, enby dykes, fag dykes, stone butch dykes and dykes of all other shapes, sizes and in-betweens. Director Leo is exploring neurodivergent ways of development and in particular is interested in seeing how the costume design can play with tactility and texture.

As part of their work on the project the designer, along with the whole team, will be required to attend 3 (paid) trainings and workshops exploring access, consent and boundaries as part of developing their approach to the project.

The costume designer will work with the Access & Care team to ensure that the costumes meet the access needs and requirements of the performers.

Requirements

• experience of creating costumes for dance or performance contexts

• have a network of contacts who they will be able to utilise for hires of costumes and accessories

• bring a creative approach and awareness of contemporary fashion and costume trends, whilst being able to work to a set brief

• have an awareness of historical queer dress, and understanding of BDSM and kink culture

• have experience working with queer teams, and an ability to design for a wide range of bodies and genders

• have an affinity to the wider aims of and approach to the project

• Scotland based

Send an Expression of Interest

To send an Expression of Interest, please email Art Director Molly Mae Whawell on mollymaewhawell@gmail.com by 5pm Monday 10th April with:

• A short cover letter, voice note or video explaining how you meet the requirements

• A link to a website or a pdf portfolio 

We will then interview via Zoom 13th/14th April. The role and timeline will be confirmed on confirmation of receipt of funding in Summer.

Questions?

If you are unsure if this is for you and want to have an informal chat about it, or have any questions, email Molly and we’ll get back to you via email, phone or Zoom.

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About Leonie Rae Gasson

Leonie Rae Gasson is a queer, dyke, neurodivergent, Glasgow-based Director working across artforms including live performance, interactive installation, participation and virtual reality. This work comes from her lived experience of the joys and desires of queer sex and dyke kink, and a passion for bringing that into arts spaces to create something playful and sensual and bold! It comes from a desire to bring together exciting creative dykes and see what we can make. 

REIN follows on from several works exploring queerness and sex, from a theatre work co-created with teenagers about sex, to a pornographic autobiographical installation DYKE which Gasson performed in.