Transdisciplinary artist & researcher
2019
Workshop
Installation
Sculpture
Design-led Research
Developed from a series of interviews, consultations with a movement therapist, and a materially-based autoethnographic research process of a dressing experience, this work recontextualizes and reframes the bodily, material process of dressing in an intimate, collective, liminal space. It seeks to repurpose dressing as a ritual that reveals latent dreams and desires. Exhibited in collaboration with En:Clothed, a collection of other researchers focused on clothing & the body, from The New School.
Prompts direct a group of participants to dress themselves with the deconstructed, reconstructed clothing & fabric strewn about in a room. This is followed by reflection through writing, drawing, discussion, then the whole process is repeated 3+ times.
Movement and dressing instructions, wood shelves, hangers, velcro, elastic, cotton batting, polyester fill, thrifted clothes, discarded fabric, metal, chicken wire, paper, pens
Installation space
Participant creations
Sculptures, inspired by previous participant experiences, placed in room
Participant’s written reflections
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