Workshop Two

Clothes,
Dress,
and
Materials

This photo is of our class attempting some of Erwin Wurm's "Plastic Process" ideas of how to reinterpret and wear clothes differently.
This exercise posed the question that; if worn differently, are clothes still what they were?
It is the ritualistic "putting on" of clothes that gives garments their conventional look, but what else can be "put on" and if this process is taken from another angle does the original function of the garment cease to exist?
In some cases I think yes, with jumpers and t-shirts immobilising the wearer and becoming a sort of living clothed sculpture....
This exercise could lead to potential research in the form of me "playing dress ups" to discover other ways to wear my usual clothes and what happens to them and me if i apply Wurm's "plastic process". To some extent I already do this by wearing certain things back to front for a different neckline but this is also open to further exploration.