Fashion has the liberty to plunder and refashion bits of history into various intricate signifiers, shapes or symbols. Furthermore, those bodily ornaments carry the ambivalent potential to disconcert bodies, identities and perceptions. For the program Costumes and Collapse, the art collective Apparatus 22 proposes a workshop that will use tactics of storytelling to imagine fictitious clothing and accessories that navigate from historical narrative to present. “Dressing fiction” is part of a series of projects Apparatus 22 has been developing since 2011 with the aim to analyse and comment on how art, politics and economy have been making use of clothing in building Utopian programs.

As the amount of participants is limited, registration in advance is required here.

The event is part of the program Costumes and Collapse organized by Slavs and Tatars’ Pickle Bar. The event in question was co-organized by Leah Feldman and partially funded by the Alexander von Humbold Foundation.