Fashion Professorship invites #1: Sinéad O'Dwyer
On February 26, 2021 the ArtEZ Fashion Professorship hosted its first online panel talk for the Bachelor Fashion Design students. The topic of the talk will be fashion and embodiment, and for this, Fashion Design alumna Sinéad O'Dwyer was invited. An introduction to the topic was given by Daniëlle Bruggeman, followed by an interview with Sinéad by embodied researcher Chet Bugter.
Sinéad O’Dwyer is a London-based fashion designer. O'Dwyer's RCA graduate collection featured sculptural pieces part-moulded from body parts, which explored the way in which we perceive our body versus the reality of how it looks. Everyday perceptions of the human form are an ongoing theme explored in O'Dwyer's work. To get more information please visit the website and Instagram.
Chet Julius Bugter is an activist, artistic and embodied researcher, writer and educator. Through (participatory) performance, written and visual essays, manifestos and film, Chet aims to circumvent the ways in which the gender binary is expressed in and through fashion. For more information please visit the website and Instagram.
More about fashion and embodiment
Interested in fashion and embodiment? Take a look at the following sources:
- "Uneasy bodies: Affect, Embodied Perception, and Contemporary Fashion Photography" by Eugénie Shinkle in Carnal Aesthetics: Transgressive Imagery and Feminist Politics.
- "Technologies for Seductive Criticism" by Gabriel Maher.
- "Mediated Bodies*" by Gabriel Maher.
- "#DeGenderFashion: Harry Styles on the Cover of Vogue" by ALOK
- "Patriarchal Beauty" by ALOK
"Trans/Generation" by ALOK | UnErase Poetry