Unmaking: Fashion Practice Through Film in the Expanded Field : Multi-component output consisting of an essay film, five exhibitions and a book (in sub title)
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University of Portsmouth
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 26322183
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- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- A multi-component output consisting of an essay-film, five exhibitions and one book chapter, submitted with supporting media via a USB.
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- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- The Unmaking project by Lara Torres is a MULTI-COMPONENT output consisting of an essay-film, FIVE exhibitions and ONE book chapter, submitted with supporting media via a USB which can be requested from REF archive.
The essay-film was created in 2016 as part of the Transfashional series, an educational and exhibitive initiative between the Austrian Cultural Forum, Warsaw and the University of the Applied Arts, Vienna. The work examines the potential for filmmaking to form an explicit method of recording and transferring fashion knowledge. As a selfinterrogation of the research question ‘What is fashion?’, the method of film-making itself is an implementation of philosophical deconstruction utilising theorists of video/film/ installation as a mode of critical thinking through montage.
The usefulness of film analysis for fashion-practitioner research is explored using this methodology. Reflective practice is used as a way to explore how the fashion object can create transferrable fashion knowledge related to ‘making’. Torres adopted the role of the reflective practitioner (Schön, 1983), keeping mood boards, video journals and re-editing film throughout the project as reflection on progress, process and theory through the staged iterations of the five exhibitions and a book chapter.
The project’s methodology represents a significant departure for fashion practices, moving away from imperatives of productivity via commercial fashion towards ‘making’ as a primary means of gaining new knowledge, using film and reflection as the basis for the study through ‘video-thought’, proposing a conceptual framework for cinematic modes that acknowledge fashion-film as ‘thought experiment’.
Unmaking was exhibited in London, Vienna, Warsaw, Kalmar and Rimini. It was further disseminated at The End of Fashion conference in 2016, Wellington, NZ, at Massey University at Otago and at the Royal College of Art ‘Dialogues and Explorations’ 2018 Knowledge Production Through Practice – Deconstruction as Method at Royal College of Arts.
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