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.
Info: Ala Moderna
del Museo della Città / Rimini City Museum - Modern Hall
Via Cavalieri 22 - 47921 Rimini
http://www.laboratoriaperti.it/rimini
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