„In Search of Fulfillment“ is a take on the services provided by online-retailers and their impact on the environment and people’s feelings and behavior. Around collectively tufting, weaving, and sewing a semitrailer truck in the public space out of waste textiles, the project explores the interrelations of fast fashion, logistics and happiness in a series of workshops, talks, lectures and performances. It is intended to grow over time in a number of locations.
The kickoff at Floating University in Berlin from September 15 – 17, 2023, included the weaving and tufting of the first four segments of the truck sculpture, tufting and weaving workshops, a swap shop, an exhibition of upcycling garments, an empowerment workshop and a series of talks by experts from logistics, fashion, neuroscience and drama/philosophy.
Participants and collaborators were, among others: Lisa & Wilfried Prantner, Esther Kaya Stögerer (artistic direction), Alizée Serazin (truck design and construktion), Zeyu Cheng (tufting), Urban Fibers (weaving), Radikale Töchter (empowerment), Markus Muschkiet, Rebecca Böhme, John von Düffel (talks), Dana Giesecke (moderation).
The next installment is going to take place around the Future.Repair.Machine conference in Graz, Austria. From May 15 – 31, 2024, we are going to continue working collectively on the truck sculpture at Mariahilferplatz, a public square in the city center. During the conference, from May 23 – 27, we will further explore the relation of fast fashion, waste, logistics and the ambivalent meaning of „fulfillment“ between duty, control, desire, and ultimate bliss. In doing so, we will be aided by Daniel Wetzel and Linn Günther (Rimini Protokoll, Berlin), the Or Foundation (Accra, Ghana), John von Düffel (writer, Berlin), Markus Muschkiet (Fraunhofer Center Textillogistik, Mönchengladbach), Thomas Hauschild (ethnographer, Reinbek), Michael Zinganel (artist, Vienna), Rebecca Böhme (neuroscientist, Linköping) and others. For more details, see: www.bisesmirvomleibefaellt.com/in-search-of-fulfillment/ and instagram: www.instagram.com/in.search.of.fulfillment/ and www.dramatikerinnenfestival.at/
Photocredits: Marie Castagnola, Brigitte Bidovec, Cathy Kerkhoff-Saxon
Bis es mir vom Leibe fällt e.V. is a Berlin-based NGO for creatively working with used textiles in a world that is in utter need of repair. Founded by Lisa D. (Elisabeth Prantner) and the Bis- es-mir-vom-Leibe-fällt studio team in 2017 it offers textile- and fashion-related educational work in schools and executes awareness-raising artistic projects in the public space. Since 2023 it also has a branch in Austria.
