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D E A T H T H E O N L Y A N S W E R

If we are so dressed by everything it would seem that the only way to be entirely undressed would be to no longer exist

I considered the film being a group of people attempting to get undressed - they start by removing their garments then in almost desperation attempt to scratch and scrape the surface of their skin off until finally they end up in jumpsuit/ bodybags and collapse in a heap on the floor. The camera looks down on the heap to expose the face the shapes create.

O B J E C T I V E W E A R

In week 2 of the Shadow Studio we were shown the work of Erwin Wurm and more specifically his One Minute Sculptures exhibition where he provided a series of instructions to the audience and had them replicate his vision and hold for 60 seconds. A series of the sculptures were carried out in class one of which was a shirt on a hanger hung from the lip of the wearer – the general response to whether she was ‘wearing’ the shirt was “from some angles”. If a person stood in the middle of a room and the objects within the space moved closer and closer to the individual at what point would she be dressed by them? Is the act of wearing something purely subject to proximity to self, or is it more dependent on the accepted manner or representation of how a human would traditionally wear something?

F U R N I S H I N G T H E S E L F

If our environments play such a pivotal role in dressing us, if i were to construct a fully textile environment would the response be to interact with the objects within the environment as clothing?

Alexander McQueen

Cosmic Wonder

Phillip Toledano

C R E A T I V E S P A C E S A N D T H E O B J E C T S W E S U R R O U N D O U R S E L V E S W I T H

When beginning my research I found it a lot easier to discuss what it was to be dressed than what it was to be naked. When we take our clothes off before stepping into a shower, are we not appropriately dressed for that situation? And furthermore if we surmise that when we physically interact with something we are wearing it are we not then dressed by the water that runs over the body once the shower is turned on?