A lecture by deufert&plischke as part of Open Doors / Something Great
In Kuopio city centre opens up a space that invites visitors to spend their time and examine the social and bodily meanings related to clothing, and sew, knit, and have discussions.
Clothes can produce memories and emotions like fear, shame and sometimes simply pleasure. They have a distinct relation to the self: they carry spores of desire, appear in phantasies, remind us their former wearers, and mark social relation. In wearing clothes the personal and imaginary meets the symbolic and the social.
On Saturday, August 13th from 6 pm, we are invited to the BALL OF THE IMAGINARY! Dance party, celebration of the end of the experience, exhibition of the meetings and projects realized. Bring your friends, we are expecting you!
Initiated by the German duo deufert&plischke, A Worn World-Le monde que l'on porte addresses the themes of modesty, desire, pleasure and fear expressed through clothing. In close contact with the skin, the sensitive organ they "touch", they are the direct expression of a personal affirmation: they convey our stories, our memories, evoke our cultures and specific places, reflect sociological and economic biases, exalt our feelings of belonging and our resistance. Clothing has the power to address important themes such as self-image, gender identity, coming of age, family.
A Worn World - Le monde que l’on porte focuses on the personal, individual, and emotional movements that arise in the clothes we choose to wear and make them vehicles for social interaction.
For two weeks, the Goethe-Institut Montréal will be transformed into a creative space where you can sew, draw, design, tell stories, reject them and sew them back together: you will be able to participate in various workshops supervised by the artists and/or take advantage of the supervised lab. All the encounters and projects realized during the workshops, will result in an installation and a photographic project, which will culminate in a Ball of the Imaginary, a dance party celebrating this unique experience.
Diese Performance + Gemeinschaftsball ist die Abschlussveranstaltung des interdisziplinären Projekt The Eerie Atlas – A Worn World. Alle Workshop Teilnehmer und das Publikum sind eingeladen, um zu den Beats eines lokalen DJ tanzend zusammenzukommen, um Kleider zu sehen, berühren, zu tauschen, um sich über Kleidung neu- und anders zu präsentieren.
Workshop at the Goethe Institute Los Angeles!
In their workshops, deufert&plischke offer together with local choreographers a range of experiences like audio walks, somatic practices, writing and choreographic exercises, clothes swaps, and costume ateliers. Here local communities can exchange memories about clothes, explore movements and collect images and stories. We wear clothes all our lives. They protect us and our bodies, not only against cold and heat. They are loved and thrown away, replaced, gifted, and collected. Clothes carry memories of people and places, define economic conditions, are culturally significant, have historically dictated gender, reflect our manner of thinking about society and … are fun!
After “Just in Time” (Letters to Dance) in 2018, deufert&plischke return to the Odyssey Theatre with The Eerie Atlas – A Worn World.
In their workshops, deufert&plischke offer together with local choreographers a range of experiences like audio walks, somatic practices, writing and choreographic exercises, clothes swaps, and costume ateliers. Here local communities can exchange memories about clothes, explore movements and collect images and stories. We wear clothes all our lives. They protect us and our bodies, not only against cold and heat. They are loved and thrown away, replaced, gifted, and collected. Clothes carry memories of people and places, define economic conditions, are culturally significant, have historically dictated gender, reflect our manner of thinking about society and … are fun!