Fashion and critique

Exhibitions with material for discussion

23.11. - 24.11.2023

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Date

23.11. - 24.11.2023

Location

Museumsakademie Joanneum

Meeting point

MAK and Volkskundemuseum Vienna (AT)

Costs

200 €, reduced fee 150 € (The reduced fee is available to students, trainees, unemployed people, and employees of this year’s cooperation partners.)

External registration

Please register via e-mail.

Contact us

+43-664/8017-9537

museumsakademie@museum-joanneum.at

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Event

Just a passing fashion? Besides high-publicity exhibitions dedicated to paying homage to fashion icons or portraying fashion as the representative mode of rulers or the avant-garde, recent exhibition projects have adopted a wide variety of approaches that go beyond stylisation. Exhibitions are increasingly dealing with socio-political issues through fashion: The topic of dressing is being broached more often in its sociocultural diversity, and fashion (production) is being considered as a magnifying glass on global inequality or, as a subversive gesture, taken as a reference point for discussion in museums. Based on a look back at a groundbreaking “fashion show” in the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, we will explore the reasons, potentials, and effects of a critical approach to fashion in exhibitions. What fashion finds its way into museums and why? What topics does fashion open up, and what narratives can be addressed? What possibilities in terms of exhibition and education does it present, beyond stylisation and the creation of myths? How do intentions with respect to conservation and content correlate? What scenographies emerge in discursive fashion exhibitions? And last but not least, what can we learn from fashion?

With
Aïcha Abbadi Fashion artist, Berlin (DE)
Imen Bousnina Fashion designer, creative director at Salam Oida and co-curator Muslim*Contemporary, Wien (AT)
Kathrin Pallestrang Curator, textile and clothing collection, Volkskundemuseum Wien (AT)
Magdalena Puchberger Curator and editor ÖZV, Volkskundemuseum Wien (AT)
Maria Raid Research assistant for the textile and clothing collection, provenance research, Volkskundemuseum Wien (AT)
Lara Steinhäußer Curator, textiles and carpets collection, MAK Wien (AT)
Monica Titton Sociologist, fashion theorist and cultural critic, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien (AT)
Laura Wagner Education and outreach, MAK Wien (AT)

Organisers of the workshop
Johanna Schwab Artist and curator, Berlin (DE)
Karoline Boehm Management team, Museumsakademie, Graz (AT)

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