At the In Conversation: Encounters with Curators, Researchers and Artists on Dress as an Object of Study and Display series Members of the Board of the Hellenic Costume Society converse with fashion/dress and costume researchers, curators, fashion designers and artists who have participated in projects related to exhibitions of dress. The HCS guests, from Greece and abroad, will talk about the concept and preparation of such exhibitions and/or of projects that they curated during the current times of pandemic and will share with us their experience.
In Conversation 2
Curating the Critical Costume 2020 Exhibition: Costume Agency
With Dr. Yuka Oyama, Curator and Artist, Professor for Jewellery Art
at the HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design, University of
Gothenburg, Sweden
Moderated by Sofia Pantouvaki
This talk will present the curatorial vision as well as the making of the “Critical Costume 2020 Exhibition: Costume Agency”. From the beginning, all the members of the “Costume Agency” artistic research project (Christina Lindgren, Sodja Lotker and Yuka Oyama) agreed to create this exhibition without using mannequins or clothes hangers. We aimed to demonstrate the continuingly living inner forces of the costumes to the audiences. One turning point of the curatorial work was the unexpected corona pandemic, which led the exhibition to shift its format from a physical space at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KhiO) in Oslo to a virtual one, launched online on 21 August 2020.
The In Conversation series will be held online via Zoom in English.Participation fee for each In Conversation: 5€.
Please pay the participation fee to the following account, at the latest one day before each In Conversation:
NATIONAL BANK of Greece: IBAN GR9301104270000042748015718
and send the receipt to Mrs. Roza Patsea at: [email protected].
The Zoom link will be sent to all participants with a confirmed fee payment.