INflate EXflate - City of Joondalup
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INflate EXflate - City of Joondalup
An inflatable garment research collaboration as part of the City of Joondalup’s 2015 Urban Couture programme between fashion and costume design students from Curtin University, Edith Cowan University and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts facilitated by visual artist, Kieran Stewart. 3 March-30 March 2015 | Joondalup Art Gallery | 4/48 Central Walk, Joondalup INflate EXflate Model Partner Makeup Partner 2 Contents Co Foreword - INflate EXflate Introduction – Where inflatable techniques and fashion intersect Artist talk with Kieran Stewart ‘What’s on’ in the City of Joondalup? 3 4 6 8 23 Featured Student Designers Danielle Marklew Joana Ehmes Marlie Fialho Kimberley Pace Lynnelle Wilton Natasha Veurink Olusolafunmi Ayodele Ryan Buckley Sita Carolina Tarah Pahn Wenbin Wang 4 FOREWARD INflate EXflate 2015’s Urban Couture programme brings you all things inflatable. Kieran Stewart, a visual artist based in Victoria visited the City of Joondalup to work with fashion and costume design students from Edith Cowan University, Curtin University and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Students and artists collaborated on inflatable garment research to challenge traditional forms of dress and to re-invent standard dressmaking techniques to create inflatable garments. Kieran Stewart ran a series of workshops to explore, investigate and re-examine patternmaking techniques by inflating the space between the body and garment, further creating unique silhouettes. Participants experimented and manipulated the spatial and temporal dimensions of the body against inflatable objects, with Stewart demonstrating inflatable construction techniques found in commercial inflatable applications including bags, rafts, tubes and geometric shapes. INflate EXflate aims to create a dialogue by encouraging viewers to re-examine ideas about garments and their relationship to the body. It re-imagines commercial inflatable techniques found traditionally in blow-up pools, mattresses, freight packaging and inflatable boats and how these innovative techniques can be translated into fashion and contemporary garment design. The INflate EXflate exhibition at Joondalup Art Gallery will run from Tuesday 3 March to Monday 30 March 2015 Tuesday to Friday 10.00am – 2.00pm Special opening hours during the Joondalup Festival Saturday 28 March 2.00pm – 6.00pm Sunday 29 March 2.00pm – 6.00pm 5 Photos taken at ECU and WAAPA inflatable workshop. 6 Where inflatable INTRODUCTION techniques and fashion intersect Kieran Stewart is a self proclaimed problem solver and improviser by nature, who uses his inquisitiveness and analytical ability to learn new skills using different media. This is ultimately how he fell into inflatable art, by trying to make something out of nothing, ‘an inflatable, full of empty space’. This exploration of new skills and techniques is part of his ongoing exploration of work expanding his broad and multidisciplinary artistic practice. The opportunity to work with fashion and costume design students using inflatable methodologies is something that appealed to Stewart and his desire to share construction possibilities in the creation of wearable garments. Being involved in the 2015 Urban Couture programme has given Stewart the opportunity to leverage these skills and pass them onto other creatives with the support of the City of Joondalup. This project has been based around the following premise: create, design, innovate and make. The journey to create inflatable garments started back in September 2014, when Kieran arrived in Joondalup to run a series of workshops with students at their respective fashion schools along with local visual artists at the Joondalup Art Gallery. One of the incredible things about inflatables is how discreet and versatile this medium is within the commercial space, and how frequently it is relied upon as a means to achieve commercial outcomes on limited budgets. To give context to commercial ranges of inflatable products, the following are examples which are commonly used including air mattresses, bicycle tyres, blow-up pools, sun lounges, inflatable boats, swimming floatation devices, inflatable venues and domes, industrial freight packaging bags, domestic and commercial housing insulation, inflatable space stations, hot air balloons and inflatable signage to name a few. The commercial world designs products using inflatable techniques because this has many financial benefits. For example, a blow-up pool comes packaged in a carton the size of a shoe box and may only weigh 10 kilograms. When inflated using only an air pump, it can reach the size of a small back yard pool in ten minutes, withstanding the back pressure of 10,000 litres of water. Compare that to a fibreglass pool structure and the associated transport, logistics, crane hire and installation costs, and you will start to see why inflatables offer a more cost effective solution when designing products. One pertinent historical example is the use of inflatable military decoy tanks from WWI, which is a technique still used (albeit in a more advanced format) as part of deployment in contemporary forces. This seemingly basic tool has been developed by military forces to produce hundreds of inflatable decoys indistinguishable from the real thing at a distance. With contemporary fabric technologies and computer aided design, such objects can be produced with increasingly greater speed and complexity. In terms of the space where fashion and inflatable art intersect, this becomes a more complex area of experimentation. The use of inflatables in fashion can be as straightforward as a direct reference to the process of inflating a garment creating dramatic silhouettes. Alternatively, it can be used in a multifaceted manner to create structural mechanisms to aid in designing visionary products that transform the market place. An example of the latter is a Swedish design company Hövding, who have been designing a working inflatable helmet that presents as a fashion accessory. This garment appears as a scarf or a neck collar, until it is triggered by an accelerometer in the event of a crash when it rapidly inflates into a fully encompassing bicycle helmet. In an accident, the motion sensors pick up the abnormal movements of a cyclist and send a signal to the airbag which then inflates in a tenth of a second to form a hood that surrounds and protects nearly all of the cyclist’s head and neck, whilst leaving the field of vision open. International studies have indicated that statistically bicycle helmets can reduce injuries by at least sixty percent. Four in ten people who die in cycling accidents would have survived had they been wearing 7 a helmet. Despite these alarming statistics, the vast majority of cyclists do not wear helmets for a multitude of different reasons. These reasons comprise of the following such as their bulkiness, impracticability to carry around, or the thought that they are unflattering to wear. Unlike traditional skull shells, the ‘invisible‘ and inflatable helmet appears like a functional scarf, with the advantage of an airbag folded secretly inside. Innovation such as the Hövding bicycle helmet is a prime example of the evolution of inflatable design combining fashion and engineering to solve a common marketplace issue and safety concern. Opportunities to apply inflatable techniques to fashion, garments, cloth and product design using contemporary fabrics and techniques are vast, with the City of Joondalup’s Urban Couture programme providing a catalyst for collaboration between Stewart and fashion students to provide an informed introduction to these possibilities. INflate EXflate aims to exhibit these students’ ideas through displaying their documentation of testing, marquettes, video work, toiles and sketches. It is through this crossdisciplinary collaborative design process that visionary ideas emerge and we continue to support local Western Australian student designers. Dummy used during World War 1 by the British. Hövding bicycle helmet. 8 ARTIST PROJECT STATEMENT Being invited to contribute to INflate EXflate as part of the City of Joondalup’s Urban Couture program has been an amazing experience for me as an artist. I have been inspired by the efforts of the fashion and costume design students at Curtin University, the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and Edith Cowan University, particularly in relation to how they have explored and adapted the skills they learnt from the inflatable workshops they attended. It has been fascinating to see how they have utilised these skills in their own terms to produce inflatable fashion creations, and it is even better to see the outcomes from these students’ experimentations that are so amazing and refined. I feel very privileged to have worked with so many talented students from various Western Australian fashion institutions on this collaborative research project. Kieran Stewart Visual Artist Come along and see Kieran’s work in person at the Joondalup Art Gallery from Tuesday 3 March to Monday 30 March 2015. Artist Talk Kieran Stewart Friday 27 February 2015 10.00am Joondalup Art Gallery 9 K.Stewart Deadmen 1# 2010 K.Stewart Deadmen 1# of 3# 2013 K.Stewart Deadmen 2# of 3# 2013 10 EXHIBITION WORKS Kieran Stewart has produced two works for the INflate EXflate exhibition; an inflatable garment disguised as a personal shelter (outcome #1) and a transportable mini-pavilion hidden inside a wearable back-pack (outcome #2). Outcome #1 My response to the brief of creating an inflatable garment was to interpret the functionality of an inflatable on the body. I was interested in creating a garment that could incorporate inflatable aspects into fashion, as well as achieve an architectural outcome. As such, I have explored the development of a personal inflatable shelter that is hidden within the structure of a couture garment. Outcome #2 As part of Urban Couture, I wanted to extend the developmental process of designing inflatables using the techniques from the workshops I attended. I was also interested in exploring the possibilities of the TYVEK material used to create these garments. As such, I have created a portable mini-pavilion that will be taken back to the universities involved in this project, to facilitate discussion and mini workshops on fabric technology and design. 11 The mini-pavilion will be contained in a wearable backpack and can be inflated via a compact battery and fans. The goal of this mobile venue is to expand upon the outcomes of the INflate EXflate project as well as demonstrate the possibilities and portability of inflatable design and industrial fabrics in fashion. Test design concepts of MiniPavilion Fabric Sample #1 Test design concepts of MiniPavilion Fabric Sample #5 12 MATERIAL CASE STUDY TYVEK is fabric engineered for protection, durability and comfort, used in a variety of industries but most well-known for medical protection suits. It is heat resistant and non-permeable, making it ideal for use when creating an inflatable object as air cannot leak through the material. Each tertiary student involved in this project received 10 metres of TYVEK to test, design and create their inflatable garments. STUDENT DESIGNER Danielle Marklew Title of work: Body of Death Description of work: My work considers the changes in the body as it decays. Soon after death, increased bacterial activity causes the body to swell. On the inside the muscles stiffen, whilst on the outside the skin becomes soft and slippery as it deteriorates. Over time orifices peel open and attract insects to burrow within, with the body eventually collapsing and leaving a flattened form. 13 14 Joana STUDENT DESIGNER Ehmes Title of work: Untitled Description of work: The idea behind my work came from the relationship between the ‘lived in body’ and the garment, and how they influence each other over time by leaving a mark through the same repeated movement. My design explores this relationship by creating links to view the body and garment as one single entity. STUDENT DESIGNER Kimberley Pace Title of work: Blow and Squeeze Description of work: This inflatable piece is an extension of my current body of work from my Masters research, which explores the in-between conditions of the corporeal body. My research investigates the abject in-between condition of the corporeal body through questioning the stability of bodily margins. It explores the idea that all bodies are penetrable, fluid, excessive, ambiguous and in-between. My research of the in-between body asks how do these unclear boundaries between internal and external body entice and repulse us. These ideas are demonstrated through a dialogue between the body, garment and object. I decided to use blow up dolls to create the inflatable elements in order to continue exploring the dialogue between desire and repulsion. The bladder inflatable of the blow-up doll allowed a more intimate relationship for the wearer by becoming an extension of the body. The contained air of the inflatable doll blurs the margins between the body, garment and object as the inflatable elements are simultaneously contained within and ooze from the garment. 15 16 Lynnelle STUDENT DESIGNER Wilton STUDENT DESIGNER Olusolafunmi Ayodele 17 18 Marlie STUDENT DESIGNER Fialho STUDENT DESIGNER Ryan Buckley Title of work: Between Description of work: I explored the idea of working with space between the garment and body created by air. I achieved this by using a clear material that depicts a floating bubble, further portraying this space as hollow. 19 20 Sita STUDENT DESIGNER Carolina Title of work: Tutu Description of work: A constricted core and an inflated behind. A response to an investigation of origins and influences found in Asian culture in particular Javanese dance and ballet. STUDENT DESIGNER Wenbin Wang 21 22 Tarah STUDENT DESIGNER Pahn Urban Couture Diary 2015 23 Date Program Venue 27 February Kieran Stewart Artist Talk Joondalup Art Gallery, 4/48 Central Walk Joondalup WA 3 March INflate EXflate Exhibition Opening Joondalup Art Gallery, 4/48 Central Walk Joondalup WA 8 March Social Media Workshop with Emma Bergmeier-Varian and Claire Mueller Joondalup Art Gallery, 4/48 Central Walk Joondalup WA 13 March Networking High Tea and Launch at The Breakwater The Breakwater, 58 Southside Drive Hillarys Boat Harbour WA 16 March Jaime Lee Major Artist Talk Joondalup Art Gallery, 4/48 Central Walk Joondalup WA 18 March Urban Couture Graduate Capsule Showcase Rooftop Car Park, Lakeside Joondalup (access via Grand Boulevard, entrance near Sisters IGA) 28 – 29 March Joondalup Festival, Fashion Tableaux Grand Boulevard, Joondalup 28 – 29 March Anya Brock Mural Joondalup Festival held in Central Park, Joondalup 28 – 29 March Joondalup Festival, Fashion Photography Exhibition Joondalup Festival held in Central Park, Joondalup 24 25 ‘WHAT’S ON’ IN THE CITY OF JOONDALUP Getting Social Master the ins and outs of the ever evolving world of social media, with the City of Joondalup’s Getting Social workshop. From Instagram etiquette to the best photo editing apps and top tips for finding and maintaining followers, Getting Social will help you get the most out of Instagram and Facebook. Registration is required for this workshop so please phone 9400 4230 or book online by visiting joondalup.wa.gov.au Workshop with Emma BergmeierVarian and Claire Mueller FREE EVENT 8 March 2015 Joondalup Art Gallery 4/48 Central Walk Joondalup 26 ‘WHAT’S ON’ IN THE CITY OF JOONDALUP Anya Brock Popping up all over Perth in hidden laneways and on the side of buildings, Anya Brock’s work is finding its way all over Western Australia and will come to Joondalup in March 2015. Brock is well known for her use of bold, expressive black lines on top of kaleidoscopic colour palettes. Working with acrylics and oil, Brock uses shards of colour in a geometric fashion to render contemporary illustrations of zebras, budgies and fashion landscapes. Be Ready, 122cm x 122cm Acrylic on canvas Anya Brock 27 Joondalup Festival goers will be treated to a live demonstration of Brock working her magic, as they watch the festival site transform into a world full of colour and fashion. Brock will be painting at the following times: Saturday 28 March 2015 2.00pm-6.30pm Sunday 29 March 2015 2.00pm-3.00pm ANYA BROCK Fashion Illustrator Mural FREE EVENT 28 – 29 March 2015 Joondalup Festival Central Park Joondalup T: 08 9400 4000 F: 08 9300 1383 90 Boas Avenue Joondalup WA 6027 PO Box 21 Joondalup WA 6919 Connect with the City joondalup.wa.gov.au This document is available in alternate formats upon request.