Can
fashion and art respond to current social, economic, cultural and environmental urgencies and shape new paradigmatic positions?
“Transfashional” explores the ways in which artists and fashion designers are engaging and contributing to these questions.
“Transfashional” was conceived as an exhibition-in-progress which began with a series of discursive sessions which
included renowned names such as Hussein Chalayan, Naomi Filmer, Lucy Orta, Cle-mens Thornquist, and José Teunissen, as well
as creatives whose practice is situated between fashion and art, such as Anna-Sophie Berger, Martin Bergström, Minna Palmqvist,
Ana Rajčević, and Lara Torres. Fostering collaborative and experimental work in each of the previous exhibitions in London,
Warsaw, Vienna and Kalmar, “Transfashional” evolved through a series of new productions which aim to re-define fashion beyond
its conventional notions. This same direction is further explored through the exhibition at the Rimini City Museum which,
especially for this occasion, presents several daring fashion artists and designers: Aliki van der Kruijs, Sonja Bäumel, Barbara
Graf, Saina Koohnavard, Ulrik Martin Larsen and more.
As this up-and-coming generation of artists and designers
reflect on the world around them, they highlight the need for a profound revision of the processes of production and social
relations that derive from them. They turn away from the fashion industry and its super-accelerated rhythms of production.
Their quest for alternatives drives and inspires new productions − not of goods but of ideas. Indeed, many of these works
are critical, engaged and conceptual rather than wearable and functional, and can be seen as symbols and symptoms of the present
‘zeitgeist'.
They are a result of the gradual dissolution of disciplinary boundaries which led us to the present post-(inter)disciplinary
condition, which requires a new set of terms capable of defining and descri-bing these hybrid productions. They demand denomination
and categorisation in order to be rightly analysed, academically defined and thus legitimised, as well as supported. From
the need for wider affirmation, legitimisation and support of practices which are predominantly experimental, research-based,
speculative and artistic, comes the call for formulating a new, more adequate vocabulary. The second edition of “Transfashional”
is an attempt to initiate an imaginative new lexicon which is closely related to the educational and teaching methods of the
partnering institutions which encourage experimentation, stimulate freedom and unconventional thinking, and highlighting process
over product.
The second edition of “Transfashional” was realised in collaboration with University of Applied Arts
Vienna, London College of Fashion, UAL, The Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, The Swedish School of Textiles - University of
Borås, Master of Fashion Studies, University of Bologna, Rimini Campus. It was organised with additional support of the Federal
Ministry for Arts and Culture, Constitution and Media, Austria, Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Austria, Austrian Cultural
Forum Milan as well as of the Netherlands embassy in Rome and Netherlands consulate-general in Milan.
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