Yesterday I made a viral video reading of Samuel Beckett’s poem “Neither.”
It is silent. I had originally recorded myself reading the poem and layered it over the top of the video, but decided against inserting it into the video. Watching it silently after reading the poem left an interesting resonance, which hopefully you will appreciate. [...]
By jgrefe
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Posted in Creative Expression
| Tags: Arts, Fashion, hand painted, Literature, Neither, poem, Poetry, Samuel Beckett, Self, Vimeo, viral |
Mutants
Our bodies blend in and at the same time seem to stick out. We cover our bodies in layers of buttons, zippers, belts, beads, metals and cloths of all sorts. This strikes me as slightly odd. I can see the function of covering the body for social reasons and to protect the body from the [...]
By jgrefe
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Posted in Communication Studies
| Tags: Arts, Communication Studies, dress up, Fashion, form, Interface, Phenomenology, Philosophy, Sartorial, Sociality, sociology |
The image above is of Tadanobu Asano and Chloe Sevigny for Uniqlo’s Spring 2008 UT collection. “UT” is, as stated on Uniqlo’s website, “a limited edition collection of t-shirts designed by renowned artists, designers, photographers, etc.” What interests me today is this UT publicity photograph and what it might reveal to us. That is, what [...]
By jgrefe
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Posted in Creative Expression, Sartorial Studies
| Tags: Aura, Chloe Sevigny, Envy, Fashion, Gaze, John Berger, Photograph, Reproduction, t-shirt, Tadanobu Asano, Uniqlo, UT, Walter Benjamin |
The body adorned, the body’s metamorphosis into a garmented state - the interactive process - elevated both physically and imaginatively; The fashioned body as locus of reciprocity and individuality. Layering as self-transformation, on the periphery of self-visualization, never fully able to realize this realization in its wholeness. The fashioned body: the sticky tentacle for the [...]
By jgrefe
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Posted in Sartorial Studies
| Tags: Comme Des Garcons, Cultural Studies, Fashion, Fragment, Garment, Japan, Lacan, Nonhuman, Phenomenology, Sartorial, Social Form, Sociality, Subject, Tentacle |
Image from WikipediaThe study of Interface Humanities is a form of study introduced by Osaka University president and published philosopher, Kiyokazu Washida among others. The basis behind Interface Humanities seems to be the study of our use of interfaces and how they redefine “self” and “other.” Moreover, I think it can be the study and [...]
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Posted in Interface Humanities
| Tags: Asset Tracking, Business, CHIKUMA Ltd., Fashion, Interface Humanities, Japan, Kiyokazu Washida, Media Uniforms, Osaka University, RFID, technology, Tokyo, Tommy Lee Jones |
Fashion is our binding to the world, the meeting place of the organic and the inorganic. Fashion follows us through hospitality, becomes our personal dwelling place, our very own parergon. The garment enwraps the body, covers the body. Fashion suggests, expects, and allows us to transcend the materiality of our [...]
“In my formulation: ‘The eternal is in any case far more a ruffle on a dress than some idea.’ [Dialectical Image] (1999)” – Walter Benjamin
Interior/Exterior: Meeting Place (An Excerpt)
The space of fashion, the external surrounding of the garment, the inorganic mode, seeks to alter the original body, veiling it with the attributes and tactile [...]
By jgrefe
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Posted in Communication Studies, Sensual Culture
| Tags: Clothing, Derrida, Exterior, Fashion, Garment, Interior, Limi Yamamoto, Mode, Sartoriasis, Walter Benjamin |
February 29, 2008 – 11:58 pm
The Disproportionate Body
Kiyokazu Wakabayashi
1. The Patchwork of the Body
The Shy Body, The Tense Body
The body is a troublesome thing.
Our body never changes directly by our own will. It is awkward and resistant to change. Not wanting others to see it, we conceal this ugly body. Why is this ugly body of mine so full of [...]
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