Everything and Everybody as Material
Everything and Everybody as Material
Conference: The Swedish School of Textiles, 19th - 20th of April 2024
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Conference Schedule
Dialogical Bodies
10th April
18th April
19th-20th April
30th April
10th May t
TBA
Release of the conference program
Setup of exhibition pieces
Conference days a
Submission deadline - Short paper
Publication of the conference proceedings
Doctoral Student Consortium (postponed to later date)
17th April
18th April
Conference
About
Amidst the blurred boundaries of fashion and research, as they collide with various fields and disciplines, a profound challenge arises: the very foundations of knowledge in fashion practices must be rethought. As bodies and materials alike become increasingly expansive in their potential, we find ourselves asking: what are bodies and materials in the realm of fashion practices? And what may they become?
The shifting classifications of materials, as they transform into tangible forms of ‘matter', and the body that both creates and performs fashion, captivates, confounds and challenges practitioners. Linear methodology no longer suffices to capture the current state of fashion design; the future spaces of fashion design and research demand imaginative reconceptualisation. Fashion, traditionally understood as the association of materials and objects with established cultural, social, and commercial categories, transcends these categories to produce novel cultural identities, meanings, and ways of being. Its materials, though non-linguistic, contribute to the construction and substantiation of cultural capital.
This conference invites an exploration of matters' artistic potential in fashion design, as they shape the body and unlock new modes of creative expression. Through experimentation and research, we hope to reveal materials' previously undiscovered capacities and agencies in fashion design, unlocking novel ways of thinking, being, wearing and living. Thus, acknowledging the material’s propensity between things and bodies, the aim of this conference is to experimentally explore the artistic potential in all aspects of materials that is of importance to fashion practices.
The conference invites exhibitions, performances, showings, demonstration, intervention, pictorials and social events. We are interested in ways to present research with a focus on creative practice outcomes which may challenge traditional conference formats.
Keynote speakers, exhibitions and performances will introduce discussions, perspectives and critical reflection on ’everything’ and ’everybody’ as materials in the development of new fashion design methods.
The conference is presented by the School of Fashion and Textiles, RMIT University, ArtEZ University of the Arts and The Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås.
Creative Practice Submissions:
Types of Creative Practice Work: Exhibitions, Moving or Still Image(s), Installations, Performances, Showings, Demonstration, Interventions, Social events and more.
PROPOSAL:
1) Description of the project (500 words).
2) Artist biography (150 words) including contact information/affiliation.
3) 5 - 8 still images showing the work.
4) A technical description and the technical requirements to exhibit the work.
5) Each submission will be reviewed by members of the conference program committee and contributors will be notified of ’acceptance’ or ’rejection’.
BY SUBMITTING THE ARTIST/DESIGNER AGREES:
To register at least one artist/designer to attend the conference.
Incur responsibility for the freight and the costs included in the freight procedure to and from the exhibition/performance space(s).
Responsibility for setting up the work in the exhibition/performance space following instructions given by the exhibition committee.
To deinstall and remove all works and materials from the exhibition/performance space.
Important notes:
Abstract, bio and images for the Creative Practice Work presented will be part of the published symposium proceedings (accepted proposals).
APRIA: ARTEZ PLATFORM FOR RESEARCH INTERVENTIONS OF THE ARTS
Selected contributions will be invited to be published in a special issue of the online journal APRIA: the ArtEZ Platform for Research Interventions of the Arts.
APRIA is an online platform that curates a peer-reviewed journal (APRIA journal) and published high-impact essays, image and sound contributions that examine art and interventions of the arts in relation to science and society, and that encourage dialogue around themes that are critical and urgent to the futures that we will live in.