Emotional objects (Solo show and Artist Residency) : Bard Graduate Centre, New York
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University of Northumbria at Newcastle
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 29766045
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and Bard Graduate Center
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
- December
- Year of first exhibition
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- Emotional Objects is an extended body of practice generated during a fellowship at the Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2018-19) and an artist’s residency at Bard Graduate Center, New York (2019- 2020). By exploring the selection/inclusion practices of archives and museums - the goal of this project was to initiate new conversations about used clothes as records of lived experience, and how these indexical objects create emotional responses to both our own and other’s used clothing. The work comprises of an artist’s film shot on 16mm in The Costume Institute archive (https://vimeo.com/469575365/85d6d05615), an exhibition of cyanotype prints (2019-20) – (an early form of photographic reproduction in which contact prints are made from negatives or objects using paper coated in a solution of ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide) and associated catalogue, and a series of auto-ethnographic writings.
This research is situated in the context of growing concern about the impacts of “fast fashion” (Clark, 2008) and increasing interest in the value of imperfect garments (Bide, 2019, Davidson 2018, Evans, 2014). The methodology and concepts built upon Sampson’s previous research Worn (2012-20), a portfolio of practice (comprising a monograph, photographs, garments and films) that explores how attachment to garments is created through the sensory experiences of wearing.
Research involved a mixed method approach: primary archival research, contextualising secondary research and new creative practice (photography, writing, film-making). Emotional Objects has been disseminated in a variety of ways: inaugural exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center, associated catalogue, and complementary open studio (6th December 2019), a paper at Met Fellows Colloquium (2019), the visual essay “Affect and Sensation” (Fashion Studies Vol. 3. 2020) and a series of conference presentations (AAH, April 2019, CAA February 2020, American Everyday February 2020, Chicago Fashion Lyceum October 2020 and Costume Colloquium November 2020).
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- Non-English
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