GARMENT DIALOGUES
BA Project, Fashion & Costume design
Location: Oslo National Academy of the Arts
Date: 2021
Photos: Weronika Høkaas
Dancer/Model: Emma Jansen
GARMENT DIALOGUES is a project examining
dialogues between object and body.
As humans in modern society we find ourselves constantly
in the prescence of Fashion.
Every day we wake up to perform an act that
many of us tend to pay no mind at all –
The act of dressing
Most people have a conscious opinion on what
they like to wear, but how we get dressed
has to many become a routine, a rehearsed
choreography and a pattern of actions that
floats by merely as a matter of chore.
By examining clothes in its most fundamental
state - as objects, displaced from the
established fashion system, can we disrupt
the fixed ideas of what garment constructions
should look like and thus also how to relate to-
and interact with them?
This project is a prompt, or a spark of awareness
in the moment of dressing, where you are forced
to acknowledge the reality, agency, and
possibilities of the object.
An encouragement to make new choices every
time the object is brought to use.
