Nam June Paik’s experimental, innovative, yet playful work has had a profound influence on today’s art and culture. He pioneered the use of TV and video in art and coined the phrase ‘electronic superhighway’ to predict the future of communication in the internet age.
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Fashion Narratives
fashion curation consultancy
Fashion Narratives is a boutique fashion curation consultancy.
Founded by Gemma A. Williams it enables companies and designers to communicate their stories by curating content across a variety of digital and physical platforms. These include fashion exhibitions, events, presentations and films.
Gemma is the author of Fashion China, Thames & Hudson, and the former curator of Fashion Space Gallery, London. She consults to a variety of clients including Shanghai Fashion Week and sits on the mentor panel of the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland.
Upcoming projects include an exhibition of fashion from Ireland and Japan at the National Craft Gallery, Ireland in August 2017.
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Second Nature
Devised and designed a site-specific response to the country home of renowed English architect Sir John Soane RA, Pitzhanger Manor House & Gallery. Research of John Soane and conception of brief and design highlighted greenhouses as a focal point to investigate how nature inspires and informs fashion collections.
Second Nature featured over 40 garments and accessories loaned from designers worldwide including Giles, Peter Pilotto, Roland Mouret, Donna Karen, Zandra Rhodes, Michael Kampe and Tomihiro Kono. It was the third only fashion exhibition as part of the arts-focused program of arts and design exhibitions.
Head On
Co-curated and devised the 2012/13 academic programme of free exhibitions and events at Fashion Space Gallery, situted at the London College of Fashion’s flagship campus.
Head On explored the contemporary role of headwear in contemporary fashion, given that society no longer dictates milliners daily use. Their use in editorial, on the catwalk and even on the highstreet continues to flourish and Head On showcased contemporary collaborations, interpretations and subversions.
By displaying headwear as part of ensembles on mannequins, the exhibition illustrated how scale, shape, color and proportion is used by milliners, designers and stylists to reframe the body. It featured bespoke hairpieces by Bumble and bumble, created by Radio Hair Salon and Gallery.
Layer by Layer
Co-curated and devised the 2012/13 academic programme of free exhibitions and events at Fashion Space Gallery, situted at the London College of Fashion’s flagship campus.
Layer by Layer focused on 3D printing and its potential as a tool for design. By outlining some of the processess, stages of development and materials invoved in the printing, it outlined some of its most innovative uses in contemporary fashion practice.
The display featured an operational makerbot 3D printer as well as a collaboration with Neri Oxman from MIT’s Media lab printed by Stratasys.
Fashion China
Fashion China is the first illustrated book of its kind to detail the landscape of contemporary Chinese fashion designers. Showcasing designers on the mainland and working internationally, it features among others Uma Wang, Xander Zhou, Renli Su, Babyghost and Ms. Min.
Published by Thames & Hudson, it has received press worldwide including Forbes, the New York International Times, Vogue China, the Irish Times and Women’s Wear Daily. A panel of industry experts featuring global supermodel LiuWen oversaw the selection.
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The American Document / Part IIFractured States / Peter van Agtmael
After returning from years of war coverage, Peter van Agtmael tries to piece together the memory, identity, race, class, and family, in a landscape which has become as surreal as the war he left behind.
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The Space Between Us / Boris MikhailovNov 16, 2019 – Feb 9, 2020
Thirty years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden presents works by Boris Mikhailov, whose artistic stance displays a strong influence by the political and social changes of that time (more…)
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Samakaalik / Navjot AltafNov 3, 2019 – Feb 16, 2020
Navjot Altaf’s exhibition represents a new chapter in an investigation into the relationship between artistic practice and ecologist thinking, and reflects on the cultural sovereignty of indigenous populations.
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Best Photos 2019 / National GeographicCurated By Whitney Johnson
“He put a camera in a carcass and waited for the wolves to come.” That, says Whitney Johnson, director of visuals and immersive experiences, is the kind of effort that makes for a standout National Geographic photo.
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In The Next Door RoomPhotography of Lise Sarfati
The awakening of adolescence has been a recurring theme that has always fascinated a great many visual artists; conflicts of identity, physical metamorphosis, psychological instability (more…)
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Helene Schmitz: Thinking Like a MountainDec 14, 2019 – Mar 15, 2020
“I wanted to portray the violent transformation of nature in the European periphery. I have experienced that the concept of wilderness, and virgin land untouched by humans, has disintegrated.” –Helene Schmitz
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What We Found After You Left / Naeem MohaiemenSep 21, 2019 – May 10, 2020
While focusing on moments of mistake and misrecognition, Naeem Mohaiemen’s research into aspirations towards utopia during the Cold War era, manifested through decolonization, revolution, and independence.
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