CORPUS:
il vestito che gioca il reale
../Related Objects
KEYWORD:
#participative project
CULTURAL DEFINITION:
../Edition: 1
../Co-authors:
Clara Rota
TECHNICAL DATA:
../Object:
reactivable
../Matter and technique: workshop, costumes, performance
DESCRIPTION: The work, part of a project that lasted over a year, curated by Gabi Scardi and
realized by Fondazione Wurmkos, arose from the request to conduct a workshop
focused on the concept of "dress".
The workshop's participants were a very diverse group of young people. Through a
shared process of creation, a collection of garments has been conceived. The idea
evolved around the concepts of bionics: inspired by the balance between material
form and function, and the processes of development that, in nature, underlie
every unit of life.
The work started from the invitation to observe patterns, shapes, structures and
strategies, to emulate them, adding a personal ingredient. The result is a series
of floating organic costumes; hybrid and wearable beings that are between science
and science fiction, the fairy-tale and the primordial, and in which the human,
the animal and the vegetable blend.
In this way the project is charged with poetry but also triggers a series of
considerations on the crisis of the traditional relationship between humanity and
its environment and on the evident need to look at the efficiency of nature in its
relationship with its own resources as a fundamental example.
The result of the workshop was the production, thanks to the support of Clara Rota
(bassasARToria), of a collection of unique garments and a collective performance,
documented through a selfie video streaming by the performers.
THEMES:
../#specificity:
social
../#body:
passive
../#imagination:
biophilia
../#identity:
technology
SOURCES AND DOCUMENTS:
../Images:
../Videos:
../Information card [pdf]: Il vestito che gioca il reale.pdf
../Bibliography:
fondazione wurmkos onlus, isbn 978-88-944911
../Exhibition:
Museo del Novecento Sala Fontana, Milano. 09.2019
../Collection: private
