[spectre] Test_Lab: Clothing without Cloth, May 26

[V2_]

*V2_ presents:

**Test_Lab: /Clothing without Cloth/*
*Material Explorations in the Field of Fashion & Technology, curated by 
Valérie Lamontagne.*

Thursday May 26, 2011
20:00h (Doors open at 19:30)
Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam
Admission: Free
www.v2.nl/events/clothing-without-cloth 
<http://www.v2.nl/events/clothing-without-cloth>
Facebook event <http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=206855599345621>

*Featuring:* *Emily Crane (UK) | Christien Meindertsma (NL) | Carole 
Collet (UK) | Grado Zero Espace (IT) | Pauline van Dongen (NL) | Freedom 
of Creation (NL)*

Material culture in clothing and fashion has always been linked to 
technology - from looms to sewing machines to the processes of 
harvesting raw materials and transforming them into 'cloth'. However, 
the concept and materiality of textile is being contested with new 
technical practices which subvert conventional expectations of what 
cloth should be.

Increasingly, material research in clothing and fashion is leading us 
down the path of synthetic and organic explorations to enhance garments 
by means of novel manufacturing technologies such as 3D printing, rapid 
prototyping and bio-couture, by reconsidering harvesting philosophies 
such as local production, and by implementing scientific novelties such 
as carbon nanotubes and shape memory alloys.

What is more, many of these innovations at the textile substrate have 
transformed the relationship between our bodies and clothing - 
presenting us with a varied field of material expression and somatic 
experience. This event seeks to ask questions about new materialities 
for clothing, investigates the crossover between fashion and applied 
uses, and probes towards a future of clothing without "cloth".

In this edition of Test_Lab you will witness Emily Crane prepare 
molecular cuisine 'garments' in front of your very eyes; probe the 
speculative designs of Central Saint Martins' Textile Futures ateliers 
with MA course director Carole Collet; join Christien Meindertsma to 
question what happens when you harvest wool from your own flock of sheep 
to then computationally knit your sweater; test out high-tech 
laboratory-developed garments from Grado Zero Espace and experience what 
it feels like to walk in Pauline van Dongen's 'printed' shoes made in 
collaboration with Freedom of Creation.

This event will be streamed live at http://live.v2.nl

Send us your tweets during the event: #V2_

Your pictures of this event tagged with the keyword 'V2_' will be 
published at www.v2.nl <http://www.v2.nl>

For more information please contact Valérie Lamontagne 
<http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/valerie-lamontagne>

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