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Our Digital Selves
Collaboration
speculative
âEcstatic Wholenessâ by The Fabricant
âEcstatic Wholenessâ by The Fabricant
"With the emergence of the Metaverse, we can reinvent ourselves in ways in which weâve always dreamt. Modem teamed up with The Fabricant, SHOWstudio and Anastasiia Fedorova to imagine how our virtual alter-egos could change the ways we think about ourselves. Expanding on the work of The Fabricant, which explores the malleable future of human identity through non-physical garments, Our Digital Selves studies the ambiguous relationship between the real and the virtual self"
âWhen musing on fashion and identity, itâs always worth asking: when does wearing something truly change the meaning of who we are?â
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GIRLSTACK
Individual
speculative
image by siir bicer
Building on the ideas of Tiqqunâs 1999 anti-neoliberal treatise Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl, Andrea Long Chuâs Females and Bogna Koniorâs work on the girl and the inhuman vis-a-vis the machinic, Quicho has developed a concept she calls the âGirlstack,â which, to borrow her words, models the âultrasmooth, cybergothic, and angelic dimensions of the girlâs natural habitat.â Quicho articulates how the âgirlâ inhabits no one person, body, or gender. She is a technology of subjectivity composed of symbolic, consumer, and inhuman elements and might be our only way out of the platform trap. Quicho's reformulation of 'the stack' was first published as an essay on Wired and expanded at BODYSTACK and Creamcake 3HD.
Quichoâs girl-stack is a speculative prototype models themany dimensions of the girlâs natural online habitat. To be clear: Quicho does not speak of actual girls or the experience of lived girlhood, but a socially constructed ideation of the girl. So, the girl as a vehicle for selling product, the girl as a tool for manipulating entrenched power, the girl as living currency, and the girl as desiring machine. The model is imperative for understanding the environment that produces the âgirl as conditionâ.
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Textum Club
Collective
critical
Textum Club is a research group dedicated to practices and publishing in fashion criticism. Its fashion criticism archive introduces books and articles related to critical fashion, alongside essays, interviews, book reviews, and exhibition reviews. Textum Club also invites people to recommend books and topics related to fashion and take part in its activities, ranging from workshops to exhibitions.
Textum Club adds a space for fashion to be read, discussed, and questioned through writing and shared research. Its archive brings together perspectives that can be harder to encounter in fashion cultures centred on images, trends, and commercial narratives, while its exhibitions and workshops let those ideas meet practice. The collaborative effort offers an ongoing, locally rooted contribution to wider conversations about what fashion is and what it can become.
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