Talk – Fashion & Books: Muslin Brothers, Anouk Beckers, and Iris Leeuw
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18.11.2023
FASHIONCLASH
Muslin Brothers
‘School of Skin’ is a chapter from the project ‘For Good Measures’. From April 2020 to April 2023, the ‘For Good Measures’ audio piece was circulated, launching a poetic investigation into the individual and collective psyche through clothes and appearances in times of confinement and post-COVID. The statements, contributed by various participants around the world, were collected and assembled into a performed text and artefacts.
Muslin Brothers will do a reading of the text and present a projection installation. In ‘for good measure’, they ask participants to re-enact the sartorial situation of standing in front of the mirror and to undergo a meditation score for self-reflection and spatial observation. The participants were asked to document themselves with videos and notes and to share their habits, rituals, and decision-making while listening to the stories we distributed.
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Anouk Beckers & Iris de Leeuw
Iris de Leeuw is an artist, printer, and activist who was an active member in the Luuks movement (1965-1967). She designed the “Speespak” with zip-off legs for exchanging with others, which breaks the taboo on ‘touching the intimate space’, close to erogenous zones, because that’s where zipping had to take place.
Anouk Beckers’ Booklook is a series of magazines that can be unfolded into a set of garments (for example, an apron, a shirt and a balaclava) which can again be refolded into a magazine. It’s nothing new that a garment can be folded, but the Booklook items are made of a fabric-like paper, carrying printed images, texts and page numbers. They have a reading order and adhere to the squared physical shape of a magazine. Although they fit in your physical mailbox as traditional printed fashion media does, these items also fit on your body; they can be worn. (written by Femke de Vries)
Anouk and Iris will share the progress of their upcoming collaboration between Speespak and Booklook.