Dokument: Capturing Folk Costume and Contemporary Fashion in Slovakia
- Submitting institution
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Arts University Bournemouth, the
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Rogers_32094 Dokument
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Galéria Byzant, 9 Ventúrska, Bratislava
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
- October
- Year of first exhibition
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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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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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- ‘Dokument’ was a pair of curated and peer-reviewed exhibitions funded by Arts Council England and the British Council, staged during Slovak Fashion Week in Bratislava in October 2014 and subsequently at the Slovak Embassy, London, with an accompanying publication.
Photographer Rogers worked with stylist Emilia Pelech over 11 days to explore the influence of Slovak folk fashion on contemporary Slovak fashion designers. Primary archival research was undertaken at ULUV Museum, a folk preservation museum in Bratislava, examining photographic and image collections of regional costumes, many linked to historical events.
Inspired by the work of Brent Luvaas and his approach to fashion blogging, set out in ‘Street Style. An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging’ (Luvaas, 2016), Rogers adopted an autoethnography approach, recording her findings in the form of an approachable travel journal as well as a series of professional photoshoots, which were held in locations across Slovakia and employed local make-up artists and hair stylists. The resulting suite of photographs resulted in a number of insights related to the impact of Slovak designs on contemporary styling, and the appropriation of specific sartorial detail from a regional
aesthetic into the broader cultural environment.
The research project was notable for being the first collaboration between the UK and Slovak Fashion Councils. A publication accompanied the two exhibitions, at Slovak Fashion Week, Bratislava, and at the Slovak Embassy, London in 2014. The project also received wide media coverage via Slovakian television.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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