OPEN CALL for creative practices at the Internationale Fashion Conferentie 'Ways of Caring - Practicing Solidarity'
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Do you want to contribute to an international fashion conference? This is a call for all critical fashion practitioners that embrace solidarity in their practice. Send in your proposal for the International Fashion Conference ‘Ways of Caring - Practicing Solidarity’ organised by ArtEZ University of the Arts and State of Fashion. The conference takes place on 30 June and 1 July in the city of Arnhem.
Special invitation to critical fashion students and young fashion designers
We value a central role for students and therefore also invite critical fashion students and young fashion designers to submit their proposals. We encourage starting and future fashion designers to participate and reflect on: how do you make choices in your work practice that do not fit or go along with the dominant fashion system, and still earn money with your profession? How do you reflect on your profession as a fashion designer with regard to the future? What are you questioning? And how do you work and with whom? How can you contribute to a more solidary future of fashion?
On Day 2 of the conference, we welcome contributions that take on many different forms, such as creative practices, interactive exercises, workshops, papers, manifestations of small-scale solidary systems, or new theoretical or ethical frameworks.
About the conference
The conference ‘Ways of Caring - Practicing Solidarity’ explores how to practice solidarity in fashion. In response to the Covid-19 outbreak, we’ve heard many calls for solidarity, a more solidary fashion industry and more solidary practices of making and wearing. Yet, what are solidary ways of making, wearing and doing fashion? What does practicing solidarity actually mean? What does it mean to be solidary with each other, with animals, or with the earth, for example? And how can we create the conditions to perform solidary behaviour on the long term?
In this conference we want to create encounters, open up conversations, and facilitate actual dialogues to collectively explore possible ways of practicing more solidarity in fashion. In close collaboration with Fashion Revolution, we invite platforms, educational institutes, artists, designers, collectives, researchers, performers, activists, healers, farmers, and/or critical fashion practitioners to share and present their visions on how to practice solidarity in fashion, and what that could – should – entail in the future. We value sharing knowledge, ex-change and interactions, strengthening relations, collectivity and communities.
Partners
The conference is organised by ArtEZ University of the Arts and State of Fashion. Partners from ArtEZ are the Fashion Professorship, Master Critical Fashion Practices, Master Fashion Design (Practice Held in Common), Bachelor Fashion Design, ArtEZ studium generale, ArtEZ Press and APRIA. Curators of State of Fashion 2022 are Fashion Open Studio and Not_Enough Collective. Partner of the conference is Fashion Revolution.