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- 2. Kim Sooja Bottari Tricycle Bottari Truck
- 3. Is a dress still a dress when it is not on a body?
- 5. New forms for old?
- 6. Half a whole? without the 2nd glove Senga Nengudi Inside/Outside
- 9. Japan London
- 10. Not lost but misplaced?
- 11. • Following the context seminar I had earlier in the term, I would like to start a regular student/staff forum to share our experience of lives with objects in the new term. The aim of this is to create a collection of bitesize research, observation, stories etc about how we experience the material world (both natural and manmade). We welcome a widest possible interpretations of the above. • All of you and the staff are to contribute their anecdotes and observations about the world and culture of objects. I will circulate a list of potential themes for your inspiration though it is not a definitive list.
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- These patchworks are an abstractified representation of traditional patterns, taking their starting point from the coded messages sewn into quilts made from scrap clothing. The lost clothes I see in the city offer different kinds of codes and visual information, potentially of misplaced or lost materials and abstracted threads of human behaviour.
- Physically Kimsooja uses the everyday action of bundling to offer structure to her work, and emotionally she reflects on the human condition. I think the lost clothes I see are a reflection on human conditions, both in the ‘how did you lose a sock’ way and the ‘why are you throwing all this stuff away’ way. I used to collect these clothes, now I mainly take pictures of them.
- They show me material interactions, making up part of the physical and visual fabric of our city, and indicate the everyday actions of losing things or throwing them away.Materially and existentiallythe bundles of clothing I often see in the street are deprived of their purpose – through not being worn they are no longer clothing, because they are on the street they are seen as waste. Beyond that to me they are piles of material waste – fibres, plastics etc.
- To me these posessions and clothing represent the people who owned them or wore them, who are now not there. They are slightly ghostly and sad. I wonder where the suitcase has been, why it is still packed. I wonder why they are here and how they got here. I wonder whether the owners saw value in their objects, materially, emotionally. It is a luxury, and a foolish waste to be able to throw these things away
- Sometimes when the clothes have been trodden enough, you can pick them up and they will hold their shape, processed into a new form. This reminds me of the work of Harmony Hammond where she created false fragments of clay and imprinted them with traces of weaves: through being lost or discarded while still good the knit has now become a false fragment, holding traces of the street.
- During its use this glove would have probably performed repetitive movements and endured tests of its own materiality, it will probably still endure such things though not necessarily through being worn. It reminds me of Nengudi’s work here which is made of nylon, rubber and filled with sand. She would often wear her art during dance performances to test its material limitsNYC 1960s/70s
- I feel like this pair of tracksuit trousers are an object in motion, they seem to be performing a leap, a snap shot of a movement, almost as though the person has leapt out of them. . Materially I feel they show their stretchyness and flex, but in a dead way. With the person missing from the clothing I can only speculate as to why they are lying here in the park, in such a dramatic pose
- And again these shoes speak of the person who is not there, stepped out of and away from, shopping dropped, like the person walked away from their things deliberately. Is it just coincidental human litter or deliberate placement? Plastic shoes grouped with plastic bags seems like a luxurious and modern material throw away.
- These cushions have obviously been well used and long kept, I think the colours are beautiful. I see these things and they seem to me to be bundles of materials – fibres, plastics, metals – dumped, palpable blobs of discarded matter in the street, both brightening it up and provoking thoughts.I see these things everywhere and I found it a comforting site in Japan
- Lastly one of the things I feel about lost clothes and materials I see round London are how bright and unexpected they are. These rugs are just airing but hung decoratively on the side of their building they form a picture. They make me think about how we use things and how we value them. It is a luxury to throw clothes away on the street, it is a bind to lose a single glove.