TRENDLETTER 6-January-2023
Textile Research, Impact of Climate, Quiz,...
Textile research project 'The Fabric of My Life' presents stories about textiles for weaving the cultural fabric of Europe At the end of 2022, the German textile museum 'Deutsches Textilmuseum Krefeld' released stories about specific textiles, clothing, accessories that play an important role in the lives of people who left their countries and moved their home-base to other destinations in this world. The stories are part of the textile research project 'The Fabric of My Life'...
Kitzbühel Insight: 'La Dolce Vita' flair with or without snow In early January, pictures from slope-lanes on green meadows were spread by Austrian broadcasters and online with the latest statistics concerning the development of temperatures in the country's normally snow-sure regions. The shown slopes are prepared from the snow fallen in former weeks before the higher temperatures melted the white sugar from the mountains of the Austrian alps. On the same day as the Austrians saw the effects of the man-made global warming on the beloved ski slopes, Fashion.at received insights into the winter sport destination Kitzbühel in Tyrol where 'La Dolce Vita' is celebrated in any case of weather...
Fashion.at Quiz 5 January 2023 - Questions concerning Art, Fashion, Design & Architecture, Culture
Wien Museum MUSA presents innovations in pedagogic, architecture and design from between the world wars at the exhibition 'Atelier Bauhaus, Wien - Friedl Dicker und Franz Singer' (until 26 March 2023) The third pillar of the exhibition is Dicker & Singer's design of objects like furniture which is characterized by multifunctionality and transformability through fold or stack functions. Singer took care of the design of the carpentry work with its rotating and folding mechanisms. Dicker was responsible for the color and material designs as well as the creation of textiles such as furniture covers, belt coverings, curtains, bedspreads and tapestries...
Fashion.at in conversation with the language model 'ChatGPT' about performative art, performance art, Nan Goldin and iconic backstage images on occasion of the exhibition 'On Stage' at the mumok Recently, the mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien presented next year's programme which begins with the exhibition 'On Stage. All the Art World's a Stage' (from 15 March 2023) of performance as well as performative art from the 1960s up to nowadays with closer views on topics like 'Gender and Identity Politics' and how artists like Cindy Sherman, Jakob Lena Knebl / Ashley Hans Scheirl, Wolfgang Tillmans, or Nan Goldin approached the theme. For the press, mumok provided a picture by Nan Goldin named 'James Having His Hair Done Backstage at Jean Colonna Show'. How does this fit together with the exhibition title 'On Stage'? Fashion.at started a conversation with the language processing AI model 'ChatGPT' and asked some questions...
Stereotypes and clichés produced by fashion and film are topics of the exhibition '100 Misunderstandings about and among Jews' at the Jewish Museum Vienna On 29 November, the new exhibition '100 Misunderstandings about and among Jews' opened at the Jewish Museum Vienna. It's the first larger exhibition under the new Director Barbara Staudinger who researched together with Chief Curator Hannes Sulzenbacher the perception of Jewishness mainly from the 19th century to nowadays and the growing influence of fashion, advertising, TV, film and digital media through the years...
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