Author / Curator Shanna Soh; Co-creators Riet Pedro, Emma Lobina, Carina Georgescu, Jungyun Jang, Noah Warmer, Renee Buitendlijk, Simon Veldkamp, Hiromu Takeshita, Zhenyi Zhou, Laura Garnier, Marie-Eve Verdrines, Bas Pol, Marijn Brinksma, Kim Gemmink, June Gibbs.
This exhibition showcases a spectrum of practice-based research ranging from imagined narratives from the past; to observations on the global cultural impact of digital fashion, NFTs, youth culture and music; to attempts to elucidate and rectify imbalances in the eco-system of fashion & textile in the past, present & future.
This exhibition is co-created by Year One students (2021/22) from the department of Fashion and Textile in The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK) after attending a series of lectures examining historical studies of Fashion & Textile design from constructivistic perspectives.
Moving beyond essentialist narratives traditionally associated with fashion history, students are actively encouraged to identify gaps in knowledge in the current fashion discourse as well as to address and provide solutions to embedded imbalances in the fashion system.
In order to preserve the ephemeral nature of students' explorations in art & design education setting and in the spirit of Arturo Escobar's vision on the Pluriverse, students are given the freedom to propose their topic of choice and to deepen their knowledge as independently as possible. Guidance was given only when sought. In line with retaining the integrity of students' works, no interventions were made to student' contributions in this exhibition.
