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Christa van der Meer has a great curiosity about the concept of fashion and adjacent disciplines. “Clothing enables you to express your identity and flaunt it. That is why I wonder, in what way is clothing you wear connected to your identity? If clothing is not worn by a person but by an object, can it still be an expression of identity?” Her work has an autonomous starting point and is later on released into an applied world.

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The Das Leben am Haverkamp designers determine their own calendar, always of the look-out for alternative presentation formats that push the boundaries of the fashion discipline. Das Leben am Haverkamp do not shy away from unfamiliar territory, and this is clearly visible in their inventive performances and presentations.

fabrics can be used to hide, to dress & impress, also to keep warm, to repair, a second skin, layer,

The work contains hints to her exhausting dreams, fears, obsessions. that is, what we see relates directly to what zgierska has experienced, but what we potentially feel is something that arrives from out memories, as triggered by this image

For her series Tell Tale, Kganye turned their conflicting anecdotes into dioramas that resemble theatrical scenes, emphasizing the notion that this is not pure documentation,but rather a collection of truths, fictive narratives and fantasies

Craftivism by sarah corbett

marry poppins sang:
a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down.

A spoon full of craft can help the activism go down. and how it can be a part of the activism tool kit. Not the only form of activism to do at all but particularly helpful for more long term transformative activism.

craftivism is slow activism. a lot of activism we do is really fast, sign this do this march here, hold a piece of cardboard.and she was worried that she wasn’t making time to really think about these issues.

doing cramtisim made her think about the issues and what she was angry about since craftivism is a slow form of activism. and it gave her time to stitch messages she was passionate about.

craft connects your hand, heart and head. and when you connect that to justice issues she thinks it could be well changing personally and politically.

She argues that being "loving critical friends is more effective than being aggressive enemies when we want to change the world.

she says fast activism made her treat people like robots like, heres the issue you should do this and this, sign this.

she was worried that people would react in a more in a transactive way then a transformative way.

Craftivist Carrie Reichardt has covered her home, car and studio with mosaics which utilizes ceramics, screen-printing and transfers to highlight "plight of inmates on death row, the Black Panthers, and the spirituality of the planet."[48]

However, the mass popularity of protest wear can also throw up challenging questions about gender and identity. Take the anti-Trump pink pussy-hats for instance, which were worn by thousands in America post the leakage of Access Hollywood tape. The female genitalia symbolising Eurocentrism was opposed by many trans-groups and even people of colour.

Our study shows that women's fabric arts/crafts provide important spaces for reflection, contemplation and individual and social learning.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02660830.2008.11661557

Using symbols.