Rachel Jayson [13]

Rachel Jayson
Cambridge, MA, USA
http://www.fluevog.com/grant/bio-rachel.html
www.armyoftoys.com
www.jaggery.org

This garment was made by hands-sewing and more than 150 pages of sheet music together. The bottom of the garment was created by individually burning sections of paper to add color variation and depth.

Theme: General

Bio:

Rachel Jayson loves playing with trash. She spends much of her time refashioning wrapping paper, old shoes and party favors into garments. You can find her modeling them on stage as the violist for Jaggery and Walter Sickert & the ARmy of BRoken TOys. When she's not fastening found objects together, she's teaching high school orchestra at Lexington High School. She was also the recipient of a 2010 John Fluevog Shoes Artist Grant.

photo: Justin Moore

photo: Justin Moore

photo: Justin Moore

photo: Justin Moore

photo: Bob Raymond

photo: Hans Wendland

photo: Hans Wendland

photo: ichifoto

Carolina Pino A. [12]

Carolina Pino A.
Santiago, Chile
carolinapino.net
carolinapino.net/sculpture.htm
carolinapino.net/uno.htm
carolinapino.net/casicasa.htm
carolinapino.net/popup.htm
carolinapino.net/foldfacejacket.htm
carolinapino.net/frecuenciamod.htm
carolinapino.net/tecnologia.htm
carolinapino.net/teach.htm
carolinapino.net/grow.html
carolinapino.net/research.htm
http://www.carolinapino.net/jacketjacketson.htm

jacket jacketsOn

Emulating animal sounds is something very common among kids. Especially toddlers that experiment with their voices and tactile sense.

Originally a wearable musical instrument, from Jacket Nicholson to Jacket Jacketson, a portable toy for kids.

Since I spent long terms of time with my son Raimundo in the stroller, while living in NYC, I thought of a good way to keep him busy and also learning, would be to have a portable or wearable play station.

Soft farm animals buttons sewn in the jacket (sheep, cow, pig) trigger animal sound when the kid presses them. It has an interior plastic set with the circuit-board, speaker and switches to be removed, so as to wash it exterior as a regular fabric jacket.

jacket jacketsOn, is part of a whole line of interactive kid´s clothing.

Theme: General

Bio:

My work started as a displacement from sculpture and the use of materials such as steel and concrete to the use of soft materials such as paper and cloth embedded with digital Technologies (virtual and physical), expanding them to social experiences and social changes.

I´m interested on human behaviour, how we interact with each other, questioning the uses and access of digital technologies.

My aim is to re/create experiences that happen in public space such as cities or Internet. Giving people tools to build and empower new strategies of sharing, organize and think on how to make better performances of the resources we already use and have in a world that is in crisis and constant necessity of reducing the environmental, social and economic impact.

LeeLoo [11]

LeeLoo
resides in the JP underground in Boston Massachusetts

fallen post-apocalyptic cyber angel

This is a fallen post-apocalyptic cyber angel, inspired by the online web character, KK from Freak Angels by Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield. The skirt design was constructed from old backpacks and purses. The corset is made with embroidered rubber panels, and PVC socket attachments and pipes. The metal bra was custom made from designer, Brooksbot75 on Etsy.com. The wings and spray-painted with granite glazed paint to give a metallic, stone appearance. Further construction to this design will include, a PVC hair piece or head-dress, added extension layers to the skirt, and found metal objects.

Theme: Cyberart

Bio:

LeeLoo loves to slash up the old and make into something new and unusual. She is a big fan of shock art, and loves to collage pieces together that you wouldn't think belong. Rather than acquiring new material, she reconstitutes anything she can find in her closet or under her bed, into something wearable.

More wearable art by LeeLoo:

a skirt from old scarves for Burning Man

Ms. Hawk Eye - the mask constructed from old I Ching coins and feathers, using an old belt harness

photo: Justin Moore

photo: Bob Raymond

photo: Bob Raymond

photo: Hans Wendland

photo: Hans Wendland

photo: Hans Wendland

photo: Kristophe Diaz

photo: Shil Sengupta

Curtis Rose [10]

Curtis Rose
Decatur, Indiana, US
www.TouchingTheImpossible.com
http://journalgazette.net/article/20110215/FEAT/302159999/-1/vid

Just a little fun. Was researching the word "Mobius" at Google and found You. The sculpture IS indeed a single surface and single edge object.

Theme: General

BIO:
The PurplePoet (and late-blooming Symbolist!)

"The Himalayas of the mind
are not so easily possessed
There is more than storm and precipice
Between you and your Everest"
- C. Day-Lewis

"Earthly things
must be known to be loved.
Divine things
must be loved to be known."
- Blaise Pascal

"So let us then try to climb the mountain,
not by stepping on what is below us,
but to pull us up at what is above us,
for my part at the stars; amen"
- M. C. Escher

mitumBACK [9]

mitumBACK
Vienna, Austria
http://mitumBACK.net

mitumBACK is an transdisciplinary project resting upon two basic approaches

firstly we have the artistic approach - mitumBACK - a label trans fair
-here we try to connect people directly with the clothing we brought
back with our new emancipatory strategies using label mitumBACK

secondly we have the scientific approach - mitumBACK - reverse
engineering globalization - where we tried to use art in forms and
figures as a medium to transfer knowledge in both directions, beyond
clichés and borders. to transform the postcolonial dumping ground for
world waste – and overcome this segregation concept in a rethinking
process - because africa is no dumping place.

Mitumba means the discarded textiles, that come from the
abundance of western wardrobes into commercial container collections
and reappear high priced on African markets for sale.

The project buys back this textiles and fair pays African embroiderers
to create handmade labels which signify these clothes as a new way of
art and cultural understanding.

With this new label they are reintegrated into the Western market as
an experiment to rethink globalization.

Theme: General

Bio:

mitumba means the discarded textiles, that come from the abundance of
European wardrobes into commercial container collection and hike a
little later on each African market for sale. Mitumba is the garbage
of “western” prosperity consumption - and a good business.

- mitumBACK - reverse engineering globalization - changed the
direction of this global process: The project buys donated old clothes
back in Tanzania, and fair pay the African embroiderers to handmade
labels which signify these clothes as a new way of art and cultural
understanding. With this new label they are reintegrated into the
Western market and on special occasions they are sold in the so called
“mitumBACK - pop up flagship store” - where you can see all of the
works and informations we have gained by doing this project.

- mitumBACK - a label trans fair - wear it, be a part of the idea. Pay
as you please - but with three different price models to give you some
insight behind the different relations of the price of the former
donation and with the profit gained through the proceeds of the sale
we try to finance schools ( for example mungumaji school in singida
where we also held lectures about our project) or other direct
microfinancing projects.

- mitumBACK isn´t just a new label, it is also an experiment to
rethink global structures, codes and habits based on classical models,
by art, science and fashion.

BE A WEAR - http://mitumBACK.net

Note from the co-curators: This entry was submitted primarily for the online blog.

Ali&Cia Food Artists [8]

Ali&Cia Food Artists
Madrid, Spain
www.alicia-rios.com
https://picasaweb.google.com/aliciariosivars
http://vimeo.com/aliciarios

Casa Abrigo Portátil

In 2003 Alicia collaborated with the Spanish architect Andres Jaque to create a performance for his Casa Abrigo Portátil (Portable House Coat). Also known as the Automatic Material, the suit not only clothes but offers shelter and a space to entertain others. It is equipped with the keys to feeling at home in the contemporary city. It can be worn, or opened up and spread out on the ground. It contains a section of lawn, fabric that expands to provide shelter and private space, its own lighting and even its own butane cylinder connected to a gas burner for cooking.

Jaque explained that rather than thinking in terms of a suit, his objective was to create a role, that of a host or Techno-Geisha who, armed with the suit, could attend to the needs and desires of the inhabitants of the contemporary city. In the performance Alicia employed the suit in various ways, exploring its possible uses and especially the communication and relations that it facilitated with others. She became a hostess, offering others the opportunity to relax and feel at home in her hospitable island adrift in the modern urbis. Here’s a quote from the catalogue of the exhibition it was a part of:

Alicia has no human limits. Her body blurs into an enveloping prosthesis which modifies the contexts she visits. The Improved-Alicia is the techno-host of the contemporary city. She supplies energy, softens surfaces, organizes automatic picnics and opens bubbles of intimacy.

Alicia is keen to repeat the performance but substituting the section of lawn for a garden of herbs or sprouts that she could pick and serve during the performance.

https://picasaweb.google.com/aliciariosivars/CasaAbrigoPortatilDomestico03#

Edible Hat Workshops

Ali&Cia’s Edible Hats are made with all manner of foods; fruit, vegetables, sweets, snacks, baked goods and the like, which are attached to a base support that offers the stability necessary to achieve volume, both upwards and outwards. For the bases, they often recycle food-related items such as baskets, woven mats, paper plates and trays, place mats etc. Ali&Cia explain that while some participants may at first be hesitant, the familiarity of food encourages them to shed inhibitions and channel their creativity in a much more effective way than working with other artistic materials would. The catharsis that ensues highlights the aesthetic, sensorial and festive value of food and each hat reflects the singular irony and genius of its creator. Far from a frivolous affair, Alicia asserts that

“Just as the goddess Athena was born winged from the head of Zeus, so these edible hats relate to the world of ideas, to the collective subconscious that arises from the head. These hats are, for me, like altars that bear the most sacred and peaceful offerings.”

The workshop culminates in a procession in which all the participants show off their creations on a red carpet.

https://picasaweb.google.com/aliciariosivars/SombrerosComestibles#

Theme: General

Bio:

Founded almost 15 years ago by culinary historian and former psychology professor Alicia Rios and her niece, the architect Barbara Ortiz, Ali&Cia specializes in the collective creation of edible installations/performances, reinterpretations of the world around us. They work with volunteers to create edible libraries, borders, greenhouses, and entire cities, all of which culminate in public acts of collective catharsis through their consumption. In 2007 their work Eat London, where an 60m2 edible model of the city of London created by 200 volunteers from 14 different community groups was presented in Trafalgar Square and devoured by 5000 people, won the Visit London gold award for best celebration of cultural diversity, 2007.

Several of their works involve edible outfits and we’re highlighting two in particular below. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been possible to stage them for this iteration of the wearable art runway show due to space and time constraints on May 6th.

Ashley Conchieri [7]

Ashley Conchieri
Somerville, MA, USA
www.ashleyconchieri.com

Hand woven and hand sewn ...

Theme: general

One of the models for Ashley's pieces in the runway show is Rebecca Chabot.

some images of previous work shown here but the designer is working several new pieces for the show.

photo: Jackie Puwalski

photo: Jackie Puwalski

photo: Justin Moore

photo: Bob Raymond

photo: Hans Wendland

photo: ichifoto

photo: Justin Moore
model: Rebecca Chabot

photo: Bob Raymond
model: Rebecca Chabot

photo: ichifoto
model: Rebecca Chabot