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<font color="#000000"><b><small>V2_ presents:</small><br>
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</b></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><small><big><big><b>Test_Lab:
<i>Clothing without Cloth</i></b></big></big><br>
<b>Material Explorations in the Field of Fashion &
Technology, curated by Valérie Lamontagne.</b><br>
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Thursday May 26, 2011<br>
20:00h (Doors open at 19:30)<br>
Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam<br>
Admission: Free<br>
<a href="http://www.v2.nl/events/clothing-without-cloth">www.v2.nl/events/clothing-without-cloth</a><br>
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<b>Featuring:</b> <b>Emily Crane (UK) | Christien Meindertsma
(NL) | Carole Collet (UK) | Grado Zero Espace (IT) | Pauline
van Dongen (NL) | Freedom of Creation (NL)</b><br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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”.<br>
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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.<br>
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This event will be streamed live at <a
href="http://live.v2.nl">http://live.v2.nl</a><br>
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Send us your tweets during the event: #V2_<br>
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Your pictures of this event tagged with the keyword 'V2_' will
be published at <a href="http://www.v2.nl">www.v2.nl</a><br>
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For more information please contact <a
href="http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/valerie-lamontagne">Valérie
Lamontagne</a></small><br>
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