Talkshow: The Politics of Practice-Based Fashion Research

International symposium with pioneering fashion scholars and practitioners to explore critical contemporary fashion research practice.

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This Fall, the Austrian Center for Fashion Research, in collaboration with MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, is hosting a one-day symposium to bring together a group of pioneering fashion scholars and practitioners to explore critical contemporary fashion (research) practices. They will investigate the transformative potential of critical fashion knowledge between theory and practice, between doing and thinking, and beyond assumed disciplinary and epistemological boundaries. The symposium aims to react to changing paradigms in fashion practice and its promise to be a tool for criticality outside of fashion’s commercial imperative.

New social, cultural, political, technological and economical settings are creating new platforms for creative and critical inquiry into fashion and they require alternative forms of research and scholarship, as they bring new impulse into practice. Through a series of talks, panel discussions, lecture performances and fashion displays, the event aims to showcase critical curatorial, artistic, and academic interventions in fashion, art and design alike.

SCHEDULE:
13:00 WELCOME
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein (MAK)
Elke Gaugele, Ute Ploier,
Christiane Luible-Baer (ACfFR)

13:30 MARIA ZIEGELBÖCK
Discourse Cruise 2020 [on-site shooting]

14:00 KEYNOTE: JOSÉ TEUNISSEN
The Transformative Power of Practice-based Fashion Research

14:35 MONICA TITTON
Theory as Practice: Notes on the Sociology of a Practice-based Fashion Theory

15:10 RUBY HOETTE
Conversation Pieces

15:45 BREAK

16:45 NINA JAUN | NCCFN
Lecture Performance

17:20 LARA TORRES
A Fashion Ontology: Researching the possibilities for knowing through an expanded fashion practice

18:00 PRISKA MORGER
Skin Host & Heavenly Visitor

18:40 MARIA ZIEGELBÖCK
Discourse Cruise 2020 [review]

19:00 CLOSING DISCUSSION

The Austrian Center for Fashion Research (ACfFR) is a cooperation between the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the University of Art and Design Linz, and contributes to a cross-diciplinary, international infrastructure for new fashion knowledge.

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IMPORTANT
The Symposium is free but in order to attend the event you have to pay the regular Museum admission of 12 €. Students pay a reduced fee of 5 € (please provide student ID). Students of the University of Applied Arts Vienna go free (please provide student ID).

Please also note that pictures are taken during this event and may be used for publicity purposes. Food and drink are not permitted in the event area.