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Island No. 2Quick Change13 October 2008 - 25 October 2008 A piece of clothing longs for movement, to be put on and worn. A fashion show is not just a show, but it allows us to understand the covering and completes what – without the people who are wearing it – would otherwise remain a rather banal piece of material. With each piece of clothing a person also puts on their identity, their gender, the membership of a particular group and social class. All this that we are wearing on the body is an expression of the social space in which we move, and simultaneously creates this space, creates distance, status and hierarchy.But it is only movement and mimetic, gestural self-projection that definitively identify a person. In performance, fashionable clothing has long been under suspicion of being costuming. Coverings should be functional and neutral and retreat behind the body and its actual message, or however – remain performative props – in critical distance – no more. Clothes can be revealed and explained as social conjuring tricks. Each piece of clothing contributes to a mutual illusion with its opposite number, but we quite readily let ourselves in for the magic. We know that we are having the wool pulled over our eyes and suspend all disbelief. Are we left solely with the naked body as the vehicle of the authentic? The choreographer Anne Juren (A/F) and the cultural studies scholar and curator Brigitte Felderer-Lachmayer (A) locate the 14-day focus – which formally spans the range from performance, theory to screenings and installations – in this tension between reflected fashion design and social choreography. Programming: Anne Juren, Brigitte Felderer in cooperation with Martina Hochmuth, Sigrid Gareis, mosign / Alexandre Roccoli project management: Bernhard Seyringer A cooperation between Tanzquartier Wien, Unit F fashion agency, Vienna, Les Subsistances/Lyon. The starting point of the programme are collaborative projects by Alain Buffard (F)/Sébastien Meunier (F), Chris Haring (A)/House of the very island’s royal club division Middlesex but the question is where are you now? (A), Anne Juren (F/A) / Brigitte Felderer (A) and Asha Mines (USA/F)/Alexandre Roccoli (F/D). Location:
Tanzquartier
Studios, Halle G Phone: 43-1-581 35 91 Fax: 43-1-581 35 91 12 Museumsplatz 1 (Museumsquartier) 1070 - Wien, Austria http://www.tqw.at Participants:
Unit F büro für mode
Ulrike Tschabitzer office@unit-f.at Phone: T +43 1 219 84 99-0 Fax: +43 1 219 84 99-50 Gumpendorfer Strasse 10-12 1060 - Wien, Austria http://www.unit-f.at Sponsors:
Erste Bank
Kontakt. The Arts and Civil Society Program of Erste Group Phone: +43 (0)5 0100 - 11092 Fax: +43 (0)5 0100 - 9 11092 Milchgasse 1 1010 - Vienna, Austria http://www.kontakt.erstebankgroup.net External links: programme: Quick Change
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