Sensuous Clothing – Cultivating a Hidden Fashion Curriculum that Moves and Bends with Living Atmospheres
Year: 2021
Type: dissertation
Abstract: In this thesis I theorize what I call ‘fashion atmospheres’ as a pedagogical mode that considers both the visible and invisible aspects of clothing. I theorize a fashion pedagogy that considers both human and more-than-human presences. I use non-representational theories along with feminist new materialisms and anti-colonial theories to argue for relational, affective and equitable fashion systems. As a research-creation project, I theorize with three textile-based artworks that work to unsettle the idea that clothing is empty of meaning outside of human use and capital gain. Instead, I argue that fashion and clothing are complex sites of knowledge that needs to be taken seriously. I challenge the idea that a garment is a dead object waiting for human extraction by attuning to the many possibilities of a garment as a relational and affective object that has always been influenced by the ways we come to relate to each other and to the more-than-human.
Source: TSpace (University of Toronto)
Author: Emmanuel Rutayisire
Language: English
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3151562967