Women's Studies Quarterly: Fashion
10/01/2013
Women's Studies Quarterly: Fashion
“Fashion is an economic and social force, a culture industry, a global power-house, a political statement. Fashion can express freedom or constriction; it can repress or liberate the body. WSQ Fashion investigates this inherently gendered issue and explores how it ignites passions, produces colossal waste, demands ruthless exclusion, and inspires hysterical devotion”.
Front cover & Essay: By Cuba, L & Wong. E. (2013). Articulo 6: Narratives of Gender, Strength, and Politics. Edited by Paulicelli, E., Wissinger, E. Women’s Studies Quarterly, Volume 41, Numbers 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2013, pp. 332-340. New York
The Fashion Condition
“What is the connection between fashion and politics, and how can we understand fashion as a form of human togetherness? As Hannah Arendt wrote, what is most difficult is to love the world as it is, as it is plagued by evil and suffering. Yet, as Arendt astutely acknowledges, it is this same love that shapes our human togetherness. The Fashion Praxis Collective would add that it is the same love that shapes fashion as a social phenomenon. This book provokes new perspectives, challenges existing concepts, and generates new ways of seeing/understanding the varieties of fashion(s); as signs and symbols, concrete human relationships and intentions, gestures and movements. As boundaries, fronts and conflicts, but also as passions and com-passions. As systems and industries, as modes of social industriousness of being together.”What is the connection between fashion and politics, and how can we understand fashion as a form of human togetherness? As Hannah Arendt wrote, what is most difficult is to love the world as it is, as it is plagued by evil and suffering. Yet, as Arendt astutely acknowledges, it is this same love that shapes our human togetherness. The Fashion Praxis Collective would add that it is the same love that shapes fashion as a social phenomenon. This book provokes new perspectives, challenges existing concepts, and generates new ways of seeing/understanding the varieties of fashion(s); as signs and symbols, concrete human relationships and intentions, gestures and movements. As boundaries, fronts and conflicts, but also as passions and com-passions. As systems and industries, as modes of social industriousness of being together".
Procesos peruanos, Moda y Diseño
An exhibition about fashion design processes in Peru, the first activity of the project Procesos Peruanos, a curatorial and research platform for the study and interpretation of manifestations of design processes in Peru.
The exhibition, that took place from October 7th until November 26th, 2011 at the Spanish Cultural Center in Lima-Peru, showed case the work of seven peruvian designers through installations and conferences related to the exhibition.
[Available in Spanish]
B/AS Journal of dress practice
“A journal produced by the Dress Practice Collective which explores the intersection of visual culture, fashion theory, design studies and personal practice pertaining to the topic: Fashion + Politics. Released in conjunction with The New School Fashion + Politics Symposium: Fashion Praxis, the journal explores such issues as performative dress practices, sartorial activism, national identity formation, and prominent public figures. Boasting over 30 contributors from across the globe, this issue bridges the disciplines of academia, fashion, art, and politics”.
The CAC - Adolescent
The C.A.C. Adolescent as tool to identify knowledge, attitudes and behaviours towards the STD and the HIV/ AIDS.
The present applied descriptive research aims at identifying the knowledge, attitudes and behaviour towards the STD and the HIV/ AIDS, in a sample of 382 adolescent high school students, in a middle class urban District of Lima. It was found that 85.9% of the participants register a low level of knowledge and neutral attitudes towards STI and to the HIV/AIDS, their behaviour is guided towards protection and responsibility, conscience of the risk and of the problematic related to AIDS, 7.3% of the participants had sexual relationships. The ages of sexual initiation oscillates between 13 and 16 years of age. The incidence of STD corresponds to 1.3 % of the participants, showing some differences in the results, according to age groups and sex, the parents and friends of the participants integrate a support net, they contend to have received information on sexual orientation. The present study could be considered as an initial document for future intervention and further research, as well as to investigate deeply on the factors that’ could have influenced on the attitudes, and behaviours related to the STD, HIVH/ AIDS.
Published in: Revista Psicológica Herediana (2005) Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. Lima
IGDN Conference: Gender & Play
03/29/2013
IGDN Conference: Gender & Play
Day 1, Session 4: INTERCULTURAL APPROACHES
More info on the International Gender Design Network IGDN and the Gender Play Conference can be found at: http://igdn.blogspot.com
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The Future of Fashion is Now
10/10/2014
The Future of Fashion is Now
As part of “The Future of Fashion is Now” exhibition Jose Teunissen addresses issues on new values, new stories and politics with Lucia Cuba, D&K, Elisa van Joolen and Adele Varcoejoin.
The conversation took place at Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum – Rotterdam, on October 10th, 2014, and was streamed live via Art Tube web.
Exercises on Health/ Ejercicios en Salud. Work on view at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
10/11/2014
Exercises on Health/ Ejercicios en Salud. Work on view at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Video as part of “The Future of Fashion is Now” exhibition and the H+F Collection. Via ARTtube.
Fashion designer Lucia Cuba (Peru) is one of the six winners of the Han Nefkens Fashion on the Edge Award. A jury of experts, including the fashion-duo Viktor&Rolf and Karin Swerink, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue, have awarded the prize to six young fashion designers. They are each creating a new work on the cusp between fashion and art. These new works will be on show for the first time in the exhibition ‘The Future of Fashion is Now’, which will open autumn 2014 in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Lucia Cuba is both fashion designer and social scientist. With ‘Exercises on Health’, she aims to demonstrate that we can use fashion to interpret and transform our social reality. The garments bear the stories of people’s battles with cancer. Health is intangible and is hidden in a person’s spirit or body. Cuba attempts to provide an insight into how people experience sickness and health. The garments are actually materialised experiences. “Part 1 of ‘Exercises on Health’ – the first stage of a larger and ongoing project – is the consequence of a design process involving fieldwork conducted in Peru, interviews, audiovisual documentation, discourse and garment-based analysis. The result is an installation involving four garments: a set of devices interrelated through form, function and experience, shedding light on the complex universe of affections and significations that is revealed by concerns with health and the body.”
