A Worn World

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A Worn World Workshop - Open atelier - club night

A Worn World is a new artwork by deufert&plischke. There are two spaces: a communal atelier and a club. Designers and dancers invite people to work with them: to design and make clothes, to explore the somatic dimension of clothes, their memories and histories, to dance.

Clothes can produce memories and emotions like fear, shame and sometimes simply pleasure. So In this way they have a distinct relation to to oneself: they carry spores of desire, appear in phantasies, remind us of their former wearers, and mark social relation. Wearing clothes the personal and imaginary meets the symbolic and the social.

Dive into the project with this documentation by Kim Saarinen ...

With A WORN WORLD deufert&plischke open up their atelier and welcome everybody who wants to join them to embark on a knitting adventure: offering a safe space for everybody, it doesn’t matter what age, gender, origin. d&p will interlace artistic work sessions, somatic explorations, film screenings, discussions and individual inquiries.

Right next to the atelier is a club with a DJ, so the clothes that were produced in the atelier can immediately be tried out dancing!

A WORN WORLD is neither workshop nor performance, but sees itself as an independent, yet ever fermenting artwork by engaging with the vibrant nature of clothes, tuning into their sensorial specificities, exploring gender prescriptions, collecting memory associations, investigating the politics of their fabrication, inventing ways that they can augment our bodily faculties.

The first A WORN WORLD took place in Kuopio, Finland for the ANTI Festival. It was organized by Savonia University of Applied Sciences Kuopio as part of the Future DiverCities project, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. Supported by Goethe-Institut Finnland and German Federal Foreign Office.

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