CRITICAL FASHION 5. - 7. June 2024 TO THE PROGRAM
Can it be thought? Should it be bought?
Agorà - MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art Rome - Via Nizza 138 TO THE MUSEUM
Curated by Dobrila Denegri
Program of talks, lectures, screenings, and exhibitive events on-site and online involving international curators, artists, designers, scholars and researchers in fashion-related artistic practices. For the first time in Rome, a set of influential and high-level speakers will be present together, exchanging knowledge and insights on fashion curation, education, new opportunities for upcoming generations of designers, and spaces for showcasing engaged and experimental positions. Speakers like Linda Loppa, among the most influential voices in fashion education; Iris Ruisch and José Teunissen, who will discuss the newest edition of the sustainable fashion biennial just opened in Arnheim and other cities, up to one of the most innovative and exciting designers like Yuima Nakazato, as well as emerging voices in the fashion theory and curating like Jeppe Ugelvig and Matteo Augello.
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Through its title and subtitle, Critical Fashion: Can it be Thought? Should it be Bought? this set of encounters and conversations aims to address controversies and paradoxes connected with critical fashion practice and its relation to the market-driven logic of fashion production and consumption. Experimental, research-oriented, and critical fashion-related practices produce content, meaning, and quest for alternatives to the dominant way fashion is conceived and produced. Yet, they are situated aside or outside the fashion system. Sometimes, they find their “shelter” within art venues, sometimes in other “independent” domains, and primarily within academic and educational contexts. But they don’t find systemic sustain within art circuits; independent ones are precarious anyway, and educational contexts are becoming more corporate, so even there, the support is limited.
This set of encounters aims to address the notion of “critical fashion” from different perspectives:
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From the position of educational institutions, focusing on an innovative and slightly subversive take on how future designers and creatives should be formed.
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It also wants to provide a first-hand outlook on curatorial and artistic experiences situated between art and fashion systems.
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Finally, it will seek to understand how this kind of practice can be sustained and whether there is space for new forms of interactions between academia, the art world, and the fashion industry. It will also try to articulate showcasing modalities that could provide higher visibility, critical articulation, and a broader affirmation of this kind of fashion-related artwork.
IN COLLABORATION WITH
Fashion Studies Department, LA Sapienza University, Rome; Fashion Design of the Rome Campus of NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti; University of California, Santa Cruz; Fashion Design at The Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås and the Faculty of Design Arts, University of Technology, Bydgoszcz.
SUPPORTED BY
Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of the Republic of Austria and the Austrian Cultural Forum Rome; Embassy of Belgium General Delegation of Flanders; Embassy and Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; Embassy of Sweden; Royal Norwegian Embassy in Rome; Danish Arts Foundation; Danish Academy in Rome; Polish Institute in Rome and The German Academy in Rome Villa Massimo.
