Tilda Swinton : performing fashion

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Abstract

Tilda Swinton is a performer whose work traverses avant-garde, independent and Hollywood cinema, performance art, theatre, music video, and fashion.1 In the seven or so films she made with Derek Jarman in the first decade of her career, and as the eternally fashionable aristocrat in Sally Potter’s Orlando (1992), she forged a reputation as a unique actress with a performance style that was difficult to pin down. This quality of eluding classification as a performer has only intensified in the decades since, as Swinton has moved effortlessly between genres and art forms. Across her film and fashion work, her repertoire is a catalogue of endless self-inventions, metamorphoses, and transformations. It is hard to imagine another actor with as wide a range of roles: from angel to witch to vampire; from criminal alcoholic to grieving mother to corporate lawyer; from aristocrat to scientist to corpse.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5-25
Number of pages21
JournalAbout Performance
Volume16
Publication statusPublished - 2018

Keywords

  • Swinton_Tilda
  • actors
  • performance artists
  • models (persons)

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