Carole Itter, Metallic Fish Costume, 2003 (BG6350). Photo: Rachel Topham Photography
Physical Description
- Medium
- fabric, synthetic fabric, sequins, metal, safety pins, plastic, button
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- Dimensions
- Object Description
- Carole Itter's Metallic Fish Costume is made from synthetic metallic materials and sequined fabric that was sewn by the artist. The top is covered with tassels of metallic and sequined fabric, with a scaled apron in the front. The pants are made of a single metallic fabric with a drawstring waist. Itter wore this costume in A Fish Film (2003), which was filmed on the shores of the Burrard Inlet where she and her late partner, Al Neil, resided in the Blue Cabin, an original squatter’s cabin dating to the 1920s. A Fish Film is part of the Carole Itter Archive in the Belkin’s collection (47.2-4.28).
Itter's interest in performance and the choreography of everyday life is linked to her education that included set design in Rome in the early 1960s and experience working summers at a professional scene shop at Theatre Under the Starts in Vancouver (1958-61), alongside her studies at UBC (1958, 1963) and the Vancouver School of Art (1959-62). Whether in the fabrication of costumes, the construction of rattles and spills, or the sets for her films, theatre has had an expanded influence on her practice. Itter’s performances reflect her investment in life on the West Coast and the various social, political and environmental issues that impact this place. Like her rattle assemblage works, Itter creates her costumes from reused and hand-me-down materials.
History
- Collection
- Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection
- Credit Line
- Purchased with support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Morris and Helen Belkin Foundation and the Canada, 2024
- Related Exhibitions
- Carole Itter: Only when I'm hauling water do I wonder if I'm getting any stronger
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