⤷ My practice resides somewhere between visual and critical design, fashion and gender studies, sociology and feminist research methods. I developed a distinctive feminist approach to research and pedagogy to creatively engages in the designing of research methods and reflect on how research performs normative representations of social realities. I now study gender fluid practices of fashion photography as a PhD candidate in visual sociology at Goldsmiths and develop public engagement strategies for different research networks relating to fashion, feminist design research and visual sociology.
My book
⟶Diagramming Fluidity studies the diverse ways of envisioning the fluidity of gender in fashion photography whilst the clothing industry is established on the binary menswear / womenswear. The visual outcome of the research is part of the exhibition
Designs for Different Futures currently on show at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, US.
☞ The book is published by
Onomatopee.
↺ Fresh news are posted on Instagram.
Uni—Sex : Performative Clothing
In this play, bodies are dressing and undressing. The clothes are characters that animate the bodies in their performance of gender. The duo evolves in stages of polarity, complementarity, unity, uniformity, originality, alteration, distortion, appropriation. They perform states of becoming that are affected by clothing, what they evoke to us, and our agency to question it.
Performance created for the exhibition
#TVClerici by Design Academy Eindhoven in Milan Design Week 2017. Coached by choreographer Edan Gorlicki, performed by Floriane Misslin and Olle Lundin
↘︎ The TVClerici show was a live TV studio in which design projects were made and performed between the backstage and onstage.
Exhibition by Design Academy Eindhoven, Milan Design Week, April 2017
Image by Angeline Swinkels