fashion interactions/fashion curating now Parsons and the Finnish Cultural Institute Present an Exhibition and Symposium Exploring Fashion and its Relationship with Contemporary Art and Culture |
Exhibition: Fashion Interactions Symposium: Fashion Curating Now NEW YORK, November 7, 2013—Parsons The New School for Design and the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center have partnered with the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York to present Fashion Interactions and Fashion Curating Now, an exhibition and symposium that explore fashion and its intersections with contemporary art and culture. Fashion Interactions is a multidisciplinary exhibition that explores fashion culture by means of contemporary art, design and media. The exhibited works comment on the unsustainability of the fashion industry, analyze the relationship of fashion and corporeality, and investigate how people use clothes as tools for building their identities. Curated by Annamari Vänskä, a post-doctoral research fellow at the Centre for Fashion Studies at the University of Stockholm and Hazel Clark, Research Chair in Fashion at Parsons, the exhibition features work by Federico Cabrera, Heidi Lunabba, Jasmin Mishima, Anna Mustonen, Nutty Tarts, Timo Rissanen (Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and Sustainability at Parsons), Salla Salin, Heidi Soidinsalo, Saara Töyrylä and Timo Wright. Among the featured projects is 15% by Rissanen and Salin, an assembly line around which a factory worker individually cuts, sews and presses ordinary white t-shirts, which accumulate in the gallery during the course of the exhibition. The work comments on the unsustainability of the garment industry, making visible its different facets like labor and waste. un fit, brings together artists Federico Cabrera, Jasmin Mishima, Anna Mustonen, Heidi Soidinsalo, Saara Töyrylä, and Timo Wright to create a live performance and installation that brings together dance, fashion, sound and video art. Dresscode is a community-based art project that deals with style as an indicator of social class. Artists Katriina Haikala and Vilma Metteri of Nutty Tarts and Heidi Lunabba photographed people on the streets of New York City in three different locations in August 2013—Madison Avenue, 161st Street in the Bronx and in Greenpoint in Brooklyn. Fashion Curating Now is a daylong symposium focusing on the possibilities and challenges of contemporary fashion curating on a global scale. Critical points of view are stressed, as is contemplation of fashion’s kinship with art, design, industry, performance, and self-presentation. Speakers include Judith Clark, a professor of Fashion and Museology at the London College of Fashion; Kaat Debo, director of the Mode Museum in Antwerp; Shelley Fox, the Donna Karan Professor of Fashion Design and the director of Parsons’ MFA Fashion Design and Society program, and an award-winning designer who has created numerous experimental and innovative women’s wear collections; Nathalie Khan, a lecturer in Fashion History and Cultural Studies at Central Saint Martins, and an independent curator and researcher; Alexandra Palmer, senior curator at the Royal Ontario Museum; and Annamari Vänskä. For more information, visit the SJDC website. Fashion Interactions is realized in collaboration with the Centre for Fashion Studies (Stockholm University), and both the exhibition and symposium are supported by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture and Frame Visual Art Finland. About the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center About Parsons The New School for Design Finnish Cultural Institute in New York # # # Sheila C. Johnson Design Center |
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