FASHION RE/ACTION FESTIVAL - SUMMER 2010

Date: August 14th - September 25th, 2010
Location: Jem Fabric Warehouse, 355 Broadway between Franklin and Leonard Streets in Downtown Manhattan NYC
Festival directors: Michael di Pietro and Shirley Rempe



Culture Push and Jem Fabric Warehouse present Fashion Re/Action, a six-week series of studio workshops, collaborative events, and artist's talks exploring new efforts and strategies towards a more sustainable fashion system. Focusing on the power of the individual as a means of change in fashion, Fashion Re/Action aims to give beginners and professionals alike a platform from which to re/design and re/imagine what can be done with discarded materials. Through weekly Saturday workshops focusing on design strategies and creative construction techniques, we invite people to acquire the skills to become an active player in the fashion process and to reassess their ability as both a user and maker. All events are free and open to the public.

The series kicks off on August 14, 2010 with an intensive Remake Relay modeled after Culture Push's "Doing" events. Visitors are invited to use the donated materials provided to repurpose discarded textiles with the help of our experts and a wide range of equipment stations. Each visitor will be guided through the design process and various stations by our relay docents. The festival culminates on September 25th with a second Remake Relay, a fashion performance and competition for the most upcycled garment and creative use of recycled materials.

The six-week Fashion Re/Action series is Culture Push's first workshop festival, growing out of several workshop styles the organization has implemented over the last two years.









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Pomaire seminar

CREA for Pomaire seminar, Pascale Gatzen




Pascale will talk about the process of collaboration with the Mayan women artisan group, Ajkem’a Loy’a in San Lucas Toliman in Guatemala. She will give examples and illustrate insights and challenges from two different projects. In 2009/2010, Pascale developed in collaboration with the women a woven tracksuit for W139, one of the main art spaces in Amsterdam. In the summer of 2009, she traveled with 5 students from the New School in New York to work with the women to help them further their design skills. Together they created a series of bags that will soon be available for sale in the US.

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IDC Colloq: Fashion Media

The course will offer a combination of seminar and studio. In class students will explore the language and history of magazines, fashion- and art publications in particular, photography, media in general, communication, marketing and branding. The class will provide context and offer lectures, guest lecturers and small hands on projects in which students through making explore the issues that will come up in class. The aim of this class is for students to understand the economic, cultural and social implications of their own work, of professional fashion media practices, and develop radical innovative new strategies that will impact and change the current landscape of fashion and media.

IDC Colloq: Fashion Illustration

Through the study of historical and present techniques and practices of fashion design representations, students will discover their own drawing style of fashion illustration. In this course, students will render silhouettes, studying fabric weight and texture, by experimenting with mediums such as: gouache, water color, Japanese ink, stamping, silkscreen, collage, montage and etching. Students will be encouraged to discover new techniques while learning about avant-garde, experimental, illustration.

IDp Collab: Urban Dyeing

Urban Dyeing introduces students to an ongoing project that emerged from a desire that a group of IDC students expressed. It engages multiple partners to grow plants in the New School neighborhood with a sense of purpose. The class aims to educate about plants, gardening, garden design, public space and participatory models of engagement. In this student driven initiative students are encouraged to collaborate and feed of each other's ideas and initiatives to develop, multiply, diversify or bifurcate from the ongoing project. The class has a very practical and hands on approach; we will be planting plants, harvesting plants, composting, assembling containers for plants. We will also be designing with water, heat and cool as well as dyeing, sewing, selling, sharing and trading.