WHO CARES WHAT YOU WEAR: WITH SEQUOIA BARNES & GAURAV MONGA
WHEN: 12PM CST / 6PM GMT Saturday 30 JAN 2021
WHERE: ZOOM (link will be provided on sign-up)
“Fashion is not necessarily a matter of expressing one’s ‘identity’, nor is it merely about trends or the business of products, branding, and retail… Fashion is, perhaps, primarily concerned with innovation in the surface decoration of the body, and the wider social and cultural responses to this innovation. It would follow, then, that it is the wearer, and the act of wearing, that are in fact central to fashion.”
So says Alison Bancroft, author of the groundbreaking Fashion and Psychoanalysis. In this virtual panel discussion, Stillpoint Magazine invites scholars of fashion to explore the personal, cultural, social, and political implications and potentials of attire.
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Gaurav Monga is the author of Costumes of the Living (Snuggly Books, 2020), Family Matters (Eibonvale Press, 2019), Ruins (Desirepaths Publishers, 2019), and Tears for Rahul Dutta (Philistine Press, 2012).
His work has appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Fanzine, Tammy Journal, Queen Mobs Teahouse, and B O D Y. He is originally from New Delhi and teaches creative writing and German at schools and colleges. “A Fashion Dictionary“, his contribution to Issue 006: SEIZE of Stillpoint Magazine, along with Costumes of the Living express his fascination with fashion and its relationship to literature. He is a member of an international art and lifestyle movement called Neo-Decadence. To read more about the author visit: www.gauravmon.ga.
Seqouia Barnes’ work is predominately centered around making processes, rituals, and modes of fashioning. Trained in semiotics, she deploys research through praxis often in her scholarly and artistic explorations of black diasporic symbolisms, storytelling as performance, and positioning the creative process as a performance/ritual.
Her scholarly work currently explores the design techniques and aesthetic semiotics of late fashion designer, Patrick Kelly. Her most recent artistic works include her artist responses to Senga Nengudi (Fruitmarket Gallery) and Nick Cave (Tramway) with performative works entitled Sew Me A Quilt. Tell You A Story. (2019) and The Burden I Bear Is Heavy (2019), respectively.