FASHIONTALK ´10
FASHION ART NEW ROADS – A seminar at Bonniers Konsthall as a part of Fashionwalk ´10

How do we define the field fashion art? What forms of presentation can evolve in fashion art? What are the different scenes that can be develop and strengthen the fashion art field?

The borderline between fashion and art has long been on the rise but still there is no physical scene that offers exhibition opportunities for its practitioners. Fashion in Sweden has for a while now been perceived as a superficial practice driven solely by commercial forces. Today we can find a new generation shaping new and creative paths. Artists, designers, artisans, fashion designers, architects work more in a more boundry-crossing way than ever before. Fashion is growing stronger as a theoretical topic and more and more people are in tune with the knowledge that fashion is producing in the society. This discussion will focus on the visions for a future exhibition forum, modes of presentation, and residences programs, as well as different alternatives for how conceptual fashion and related to practices are to develop.

Participants:
HELLE MARDAHL
Artist who combines art and fashion. Active in Copenhagen. Previously operated the fashion label Helle Mardahl.

MARIE O´CONNOR
Artist working both in England and Sweden on collaborative and independent projects, building a diverse folio of work across a range of disciplines. She has 10 years experience teaching at a number of colleges within the UK. Marie O’Connor is also participating in Fashionwalk Stockholm with her work Drawn Thread Work.

LARS HOLMBERG
Researcher and lecturer at the Department of Sociology at Uppsala University. Author of Theories of Fashion – Style as historical and theoretical objects. Creator and writer of the Modeologi blog.

INGRID GIERTZ MÅRTENSSON
Art historian, ethnologist and former Director of the Swedish Fashion Council, is currently the President of the Swedish Vision AB and Senior Advisor at the Center for Business History. As a curator of a number of costume exhibitions in Sweden and abroad, including Sweden in ten shapes, and the initiator of the establishment of the Centre for Fashion Studies at Stockholm University she has worked on many levels to highlight fashion as an cultural expression.

INGER ASPÅKER
Moderator. Runs Konkret Utveckling AB, organisational and leadership development with extensive experience with techniques for development methods with motivation, creativity, and participation in focus.