MARKET Interactive Installation by Audra Wolowiec Opens in The Garment District

MARKET: an interactive installation by Audra Wolowiec

August 26 - Sept 7, 2010

Opening reception: August 27, 6-9pm

Viewing hours: daily 11am - 6pm

Closed: Sept 1 - 2

"It's lonely living in the modern world - exchange!" 

MARKET, an interactive installation at Chashama 266 by Audra Wolowiec, invites individuals to participate in an intimate micro-economy by bringing garments to be altered through the process of exchange. Located in the Garment District of New York City, this site-specific project stems from a desire to connect with people and draw attention to the labor embedded in the garments we wear.

Fabric Drawing by Audra Wolowiec (2008, Pocket Utopia)

Acting as a "mercer" or "textile trader," the artist will provide a service that involves cutting out corresponding swatches from each item of clothing, transferring and sewing them in place of the other. Through this process of direct relations, a market is created based not on commerce but on tactile interaction. To participate, please visit the space during open hours and remember to bring an item of clothing. Participants will kindly be asked to leave their garments on display throughout duration of the project and can retrieve them when the show closes on September 7th. The artist will be available for exchange daily from 11am - 6pm.

*images courtesy of Audra Wolowiec

Interwoven at The Textile Museum This Weekend

Peggy Noland 'Thread Vest' via IS MENTAL

Join the Embassy of Denmark and The Textile Museum this weekend for two fashion/art performance evenings featuring cutting-edge textile projects by international artists, hosted by INTERWOVEN.

threeASFOUR 2008 collection image courtesy of Strong Kent Wythe

On July 23, the New York-based fashion collective threeASFOUR, whose designers hail from Lebanon, Israel and Tajikistan, will collaborate on a performance based on Yoko Ono’s "Cut". The July 24 program will feature a new, site-specific work by Copenhagen-based duo, Henrik Vibskov and Andreas Emenius, in their first ever U.S. appearance. Following the performances, Sabrina Gschwandtner, founder of KnitKnit magazine, will moderate a discussion with the artists. The evening events will also feature film screenings and a performance by artist Peggy Noland. 

Tickets are available online or call (202) 667-0441, ext. 78.

HACKING Sustainable Fashion Workshop

Do not miss this collaborative art/fashion workshop at Eyebeam 

What is sustainable fashion? Why are design codes important? How do we decode them? 
Curator Sarah Scaturro and interaction designer Giana González will use these questions as a starting point to work with participants to explore how the code for the sustainable fashion movement can be decoded and reassembled. 

The HACKING Couture explorations will be a starting point for this work in progress. In the past, HACKING Couture has reversed engineered fashion labels to create open participation and entrance for all into the fashion system. Now, this process of hacking fashion labels has been expanded - how can we decode a period and/or a movement in order to re-appropriate it for your own purpose? This collaborative workshop between Hacking Couture and independent curator and sustainable fashion expert Sarah Scaturro will explore how we can collaboratively document, decode and reassemble the Eco-fashion movement.

WEDNESDAY, July 14 from 7pm to 9pm.

This will be an informal group session with refreshments and bold creative sustenance. Register here.