Artist and art historian Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie in conversation with artist Ben Caro.
… Ben Caro on performative masculinity, activating objects, and history
Dressing the Aliens of Manila: Elisabetta Garletti in Conversation with Leeroy New
Finding out more about New’s series Aliens of Manila (2014-), a multi-disciplinary work that explores the experience of immigration and cultural displacement through costume, performance and installation.
… Dressing the Aliens of Manila: Elisabetta Garletti in Conversation with Leeroy New
Recommended
More gems on the theme of Wearable Art to read / listen / watch in the next few months….
… Recommended
‘La trato como reina [I treat her like a queen]’, Daniela Lara-Espinoza
The messages and images embroidered in these aprons are associated with the urgent need to make the high levels of gender-based violence visible and question and contest our society’s patriarchal structure and severe social inequalities.
… ‘La trato como reina [I treat her like a queen]’, Daniela Lara-Espinoza
Art Smith’s Modernist Jewellery
Elevating everyday materials such as glass, brass and copper, Smith’s designs revelled in the handmade aspects of jewellery making as he hammered and soldered offcuts and shaped metal into new, biomorphic forms.
… Art Smith’s Modernist Jewellery
Schiaparelli, Surrealism and the Society Woman
Draped closely over its wearer, Elsa Schiaparelli’s Tears Dress is the quintessence of couture. The bias-cut gown, now an off-white, was originally pale blue and clings to the body like a second, otherworldly, skin.
… Schiaparelli, Surrealism and the Society Woman
Wrapped up in a fairy tale: Jessie M. King and the production of wearable designs
Although Scottish artist, designer and teacher Jessie M. King (1875-1949) is probably most celebrated for her delicate and often whimsical illustrative work, this short article will focus on her clothing designs and dissemination of knowledge via her how-to-publication How Cinderella went to the Ball (1924).
… Wrapped up in a fairy tale: Jessie M. King and the production of wearable designs
Needle, Laura Grace Simpkins
Personal essay centred on a piece by British textile artist Freddie Robins, called Craft Kills (2002) – a life-size self-portrait, knitted out of grey wool.
… Needle, Laura Grace Simpkins
Healing Garments, Ceyda Oskay
Multidisciplinary artist Ceyda Oskay draws on textiles and clothing to explore notions of place and human relationships. Keying into traditions of ritual costume and performance, her wearable art work often explores the way garments mediate between us and the world, playing a central role in the rituals and embodied practices central to the human experience.
… Healing Garments, Ceyda Oskay
Anne von Freyburg: Turning wearables into art
Anne von Freyburg recycles wearable materials to refashion 17th century Dutch paintings. Her mantra is “I paint with materials” and she deftly manipulates fabrics into images by embroidering onto canvas. Celebrating embellishment as a tool of self-expression, these ‘paintings’ use the visual cues of fashion to suggest art is more than just a decorative object.
Editorial: Bauhaus Continued
For this issue of Decorating Dissidence we wanted to reflect on last year’s centenary of the Bauhaus. Now at 101 years, the celebrations may be over but the movement’s legacy still offers much to be learned, developed and reflected on.
… Editorial: Bauhaus Continued
Frauen Vision: 5 Progressive Photographs by 5 Unsung Bauhaus Women
Explore examples of female image makers and their contribution to Bauhaus through 5 defining photographs.
… Frauen Vision: 5 Progressive Photographs by 5 Unsung Bauhaus Women
Exhibition Review: Craft in the Bauhaus centenary and beyond
Τhe centenary of the Bauhaus in 2019 created a unique opportunity for a re-examination of craft in the Bauhaus movement through many exhibitions in Germany and beyond.
… Exhibition Review: Craft in the Bauhaus centenary and beyond
Editorial #12: Backstage Craft
So much of the labour and processes that come together to create a piece of artwork can often go unseen. The invisible lengths of time, practice and patience hover on the edges of a piece, as much a part of it as the what is being presented as centre stage.
… Editorial #12: Backstage Craft
Staging an Afterglow: Interview with Nwando Ebizie
Nwando Ebizie is an artist, composer, writer, DJ, curator, dancer, ritual creator, Afrofuturist and musician. Working across media and genres, Ebizie’s artforms explore the neuroscience of perception, mythopoesis, alternate possibilities and sensations using experimental performance, ritual and sound.
… Staging an Afterglow: Interview with Nwando Ebizie
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