Christina Fossaas Lindgren

Norway, Sweden (residence), Norway (citizenship)
research interests: performing arts, costume design, scenography, devising, opera, music theatre, New Materialism
affiliation: Stockholm University of the Arts
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Prof. Christina Lindgren teaches costume design at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, (2013–) and SKH Stockholm University of the Arts (2022–).

Lindgren led the research project Costume Agency 2018-2023,  togehter with Doc. Sodja Zupanc-Lotker, PhD from The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU).

Lindgren studied at KHiO and Universität der Künste Berlin. At KHiO, she has initiated extensive cross-departmental collaborations, like the biannual laboratory Costume for Dance. She works as an independent costume designer/ scenographer for approximately 50 productions of all genres. Lindgren has a special interest in music theatre / new opera and sound generating scenography. As artistic director and CEO of the performing arts company Babyopera she gives workshops and lectures and has created seven performances, touring Europe, the USA, Russia, South Korea and Rwanda. In most of Babyopera’s productions, the starting point has been scenography and costumes, where Lindgren is responsible for costume, as well as for direction. Together with the performance artist Liv Kristin Holmberg, she leads the experimental multi-medial project Nattens Lys (The Light of the Night). www.babyopera.no / www.nattenslys.no

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  • Costume Dramaturgies (2026) author(s): Christina Fossaas Lindgren, Charlotte Østergaard published in: Research Catalogue
    With the artistic research project Costume Dramaturgies we explore the dramaturgy that emerges when performance takes an unconventional starting point: a costume – a thing. By approaching dramaturgy as an assembly of things, we shift perspective from the human to the non-human, giving agency to costume, props, and light in performance. We argue that the dramaturgy of things remains an under-researched area in the performing arts. The one-year project is funded by Stockholm University of the Arts and brings together 12 researchers from costume design, dramaturgy, mime acting, LARP, film direction, theatre studies, scenography, and performance art. This multi-perspective, poly-vocal approach aims to generate a nuanced understanding of dramaturgy of things, and includes workshops based on devising methods—most notably the Costume Jam Session, where participants interact with costumes through chains of action, followed by reflection on the dramaturgy that emerges. The project is a continuation of the artistic research project Costume Agency.
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