Transfashional Lab

Transfashional began as a series of collaborative sessions in 2016 with fashion designer Hussein Chalayan, curators José Teunissen (Arnheim Fashion Biennial), Susanne Neuburger (MUMOK – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien), Barbara Putz-Plecko and Beatrice Jaschke (Die Angewandte) as well as emerging artists and designers whose practice is situated in between fashion and art. This project encouraged collaborative and experimental work which resulted in new productions and transcended boundaries between disciplines.
Together with students from KMD Herbststraße, College of Fashion, Art and Design, I developed experimental surface designs and created costumes for the musicians of club “.akut” performing a concert series called “Excuse my Dust” at Wien Modern Festival in 2016. This process involved special surface treatments using chlorine bleach on black cotton with flour as reservation medium. The costumes were inspired by the dystopian landscape of Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych The Last Judgment at the Acadamy of Fine Arts in Vienna, one of the concert locations. Two of them were shown in the Transfashional kick-off exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum in London.

09th February — 04th April 2017
Austrian Cultural Forum, London, UK
Group Exhibition
Curated by Dobrila Denegri
Exhibition photo: Lisa Edi