WASTED #3: Hanging Threads (Workshop)
13, 14, 15 December, 10:30
We cordially invite you to a three-day workshop by Zil Vostalova at INI. Join us to learn how to sew digital fashion as well as acquire knowledge about traditional crafts.
Workshop will be conducted in English and is open to the public free of charge. To secure your spot, kindly make a reservation via email at zil@zilvostalova.com, as space is limited.
The three days of the workshop will be filled with knowledge-sharing, presentations, and collaborative practical work. We will pair digital materials, prototype, watch selected films and projects together, discuss and learn about traditional textile techniques and approaches. Themes from traditional textile crafts, digital fashion, gaming will meet at the intersection of contemporary fashion, creating a space for speculative scenarios, making-doing and discussion.
During Wednesday's workshop, we will delve into designing in a digital environment, learning to work within the programs used by virtual fashion designers. On Thursday, we will join our guests in focusing on conceptualizing virtual environments and avatars, engaging in discussions about the ethical issues surrounding these concepts. The last day of the workshop will be dedicated to contemporary fashion from the perspective of traditional textile techniques.
PROGRAM
Wednesday 13 December
10:30 Žil VostaIová Intro
11:00 Ineke Siersema: The Digital Fashion Craft
13:30-16:00 Workshop dynamic textile animation (Ineke Siersema, Žil Vostalová, Yoonha Kim)
17:30-19:00 Review on The Mixed Reality Fashion Worskhops
and Artistic research of Linda Valkeman: The Death Man’s Clothing
Thursday 14 December
10:00 JaCobra/Žil: AWE (Aftercare and digital avatars)
11:00 Ondřej Trhoň a Andrea Hubert: Sustainability and Games
13:30 Yoonha Kim: Can Gi(기) Flow through Pixels?
Discussions, drinks.
Friday 15 December
11:00 Gabriela Palijová a Anna Solianyk: Contemporary state and function of Ukrainian Embroidery and traditional techniques (performance and movie screening)
For updates and more information about guests, please visit the workshop website: https://hangingthreads.xyz
All presentations will be life streamed and recorded, accessible with the Zoom link
The Project could be implemented thanks to the financial support of the Czech Ministry of Culture, the State Cultural Fund, a grant from the City of Prague.
Residency WASTED
How to let textile waste tell its hidden story? And are there outlines of answers waiting for us in addition to the pressing "why"??
The theme of the death of material constructions Zil brings to the study of the fate of dead stock materials of fashion brands (dead stock material - PIR: post- industrial recycled) and post-consumer textile waste materials - PCR: Post- consumer Recycled) that accumulate as a consequence of standardization (ready-to-wear) and fast fashion business models of rampant overproduction. A problem of unimaginable proportions is unleashed. Textile colonial waste in certain African and South American countries is destroying the environment and deadening the continuity of local traditional techniques and approaches to textile and clothing production.
In parallel, however, in the era of digital extensions, digital prototypes are being created that have their own specific materiality and durability. Unraveling the fabric of the contemporary hybrid reality of digital prototypes and physical textiles pairs the language of sustainability and paves the way for a revival of traditional textile myths, gossip and techniques. They are linked to the creation of embroidery, textile painting and quilting techniques. Speculative scenarios emerge in shared non-binary bodies of code that create a new historical plane. Digital representations of traditional craft techniques and traditions complete the circle of these speculations and create space for the development and renewal of old-new crafts.
Movement - body - material.