We wish to invite you to this fourth installment of Fashionplay and are proud to present a study of different perspectives on today's second-hand clothing. Part of the program, an event will be held at the ShowKonstfack Gallery in collaboration with the group Dress Off Dress On, where used garments can be exchanged, along with a dissemination of critical texts dealing with the topic.
Dress Off Dress On is a collaborative team composed of the cultural workers Jennie Johansson and Ida Lithell. The aim of this tandem is to present alternative methods to counter today's accelerated speed of consumption that is forming our society and social behaviours. Dress Off Dress On wishes to find ways to satisfy our urge for consumption without falling into a return to the traditions, with the imperative of slowing down the process and by becoming personally engaged through exchange of clothes with their embedded histories.
Welcome to the opening of Fashionplay in collaboration with Dress Off Dress On
Wednesday, February 13, 6 - 8 PM
ShowKonstfack
Regeringsgatan 19, Stockholm
February 14-16, 2008
Opening Hours:
Thursday to Friday: 4 - 7 PM
Saturday: 12 - 6 PM
Documentation of the event and critical articles will be regularly updated on Fashionplay.org during the course of the event.
Fashionplay is a curatorial team composed of the artist Therese Dahlqvist and designer Helena Hertov. We wish trough practical and theoretical practice to engage wider discussions around our relationship to today's consuming society, and conduct critical analyses of its significance. A desired outcome of our study is to engage a participatory audience with the possibility of creating a collective understanding for alternative and empowering consumption attitudes.
Therese Dahlqvist
Helena Hertov
Proof Reader: Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen
The guests contributors for the fourth installments of Fashionplay are:
KAREN HANSEN TRANBERG, Professor at the Department of Anthropology of the Northwestern University and writer of the book: Salaula: the World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia
NINNA BERGER, MFA Designer/Artist
OTTO VON BUSCH, Designer/artist and PhD candidate at the HDK - The School of Design and Crafts in Gothenburg
SVERKER LINDSTRÖM, Journalist and writer of the book Gränslösa kläder (translation: Clothes Without Borders)
MONICA NORDLUND, Vintage clothing collector, runs Ateljé Femman
DRESS OFF DRESS ON, Jennie Johansson, Ida Lithell
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