Issue 6- Clothing and/or Fashion now available!

Clothing and/or fashion is the theme for this issue because it was a subject I was reading about and thinking about myself....Hopefully this issue offers some new perspectives on clothing and/or fashion and offers new options for you to try on.

Issue 6 is the largest issue to date! It features collages by arists from North Carolina, Massachusetts, Michigan, Illinois and California. Issues are being mailed to contributors, or you can purchase it at www.juliejean.etsy.com

Here are some of the links and resources in issue 6!

Artists who deal with issues related to clothing and fashion and resources

Terese Agnew’s large photo-based image of a textile worker made entirely of clothing labels

http://www.tardart.com/html/ptw.php

Bernadette Corporation, fashion label, 1995-98

http://www.bernadettecorporation.com/bcfashion.htm

Made in USA, issues 1-3, 1999 - 2001

http://www.bernadettecorporation.com/musa.htm

“We have always liked fashion for what it is--a seductive surface. Fashion magazines in general like to tell people, “this is cool, this is new, look at this.” New fashion magazines try to launch a new wave of cool. They are very fast. We are slow, slowing things down and getting lost in them. We are stuck on simple questions, like “What is a fashion magazine?” “What do they do everyday at Vogue?” When we think of a Fall Collection, we think of leaves on trees turning orange and red, of pumpkins and apples. When we think of fashion we think of an atom smasher the size of Texas, and the option of wearing smashed atoms to school, the office, a date, etc.”

Ryan McGuinness’s Destroy shirt and Jenny Holzer’s shirts at Printed Matter, www.printedmatter.org

Reap What You Sew http://www.reapwhatyousew.org/

Retail Action Project http://www.goles.org/rap/index.html

How Susie Bayer's T-Shirt Ended Up on Yusuf Mama's Back

By George Packer http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E5DB153BF932A05750C0A9649C8B63

Sewing Rebellion- http://sewingrebellion.blogspot.com/

Lisa Anne Auerbach’s D.D.I.Y http://www.joaap.org/6/lovetowe/lisa.html

Andrea Zittel’s Smock Shop http://www.smockshop.org/

Lisa Anne Auerbach http://www.stealthissweater.com/

Jean Shin, Projects 81 http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2002/projects/projects81/81_current.html

Cat Chow http://www.cat-chow.com/

Garment/research http://www.garmentresearch.org/wpress/

The Object of Labor Art, Cloth, and Cultural Production Edited by Joan Livingstone and John Ploof

Exhibitions- Collage or clothing/fashion-related

Pleasure Seeker Tory Wright

February 2009, Lump Gallery / Projects, Raleigh NC, www.lumpgallery.com/

The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End

September 30, 2008–April 5, 2009, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={6EB15EDD-CFF8-4E7B-AA28-573CAB5230D5}

Yinka Shonibare, 100 Years, 2000

http://www.metmuseum.org/special/african_textiles/view_1.asp?item=17

Sokari Douglas Camp, Nigerian Woman Shopping, 1990

http://www.metmuseum.org/special/african_textiles/view_1.asp?item=18

Podcast- http://www.metmuseum.org/podcast/detail.asp?eid={6EB15EDD-CFF8-4E7B-AA28-573CAB5230D5}

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary

September 27, 2008 - April 19, 2009, Museum of Arts and Design, New York

http://66.223.50.26/code/emuseum.asp?style=browse&currentrecord=1&page=search&profile=exhibitions&searchdesc=Current%20Exhibitions&searchstring=Current/,/greater%20than/,/0/,/false/,/true&action=advsearch&style=single&currentrecord=4

The Poetry of Scissors and Glue

Holland Cotter, September 14, 2008

The pre-eminent American poet John Ashbery makes his solo debut as professional artist at 81, with a modest but polished exhibition of two dozen small collages.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/arts/design/14cott.html?ex=1378958400&en=32a7bca1bcd10cae&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

Call for Collages- Clothing is the theme for Issue 6!

Clothing is something we encounter everyday. It can allow us to make statements (personal or even political), sometimes we us it to differentiate ourselves from others, while other times it aligns us and allows for group identification. The way clothes are made and who makes them, how and with what materials are also related issues that this theme allows one to explore. Maybe one of your parents sewed clothes you have worn or maybe you sew your own. Anything in this broad-ranging theme of clothing allows you to explore these and even other issues and ideas.
To parallel my own thoughts and investigations into clothing the next (the 6th!) issue of la colle, the collage zine, will be devoted to clothing. This year I am trying to sew any new clothes or purchase them from companies with fair trade policies after reading about the GAP’s use of slave labor to make skirts this past fall. Maybe you’ll just make a collage, but maybe this theme will bring to your attention larger themes related to clothing.

Does fashion factor into this theme? It can if you want. As Radu Stern has written in the fabulous book Against Fashion: Clothing as Art, 1850-1930, "...fashion appears to be not just a consequence of capitalism, but one of the factors that contributed to its rise." (some additional excerpts from the fantastic book are posted here)

Here are some related links and books related to this theme that I’ve come across lately that might offer some inspiration:
Andrea Zittel’s Smock Shop http://www.smockshop.org/
Lisa Anne Auerbach http://www.stealthissweater.com/
Jean Shin, Projects 81 http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2002/projects/projects81/81_current.html
Cat Chow http://www.cat-chow.com/
Garment/research http://www.garmentresearch.org/wpress/
The Object of Labor Art, Cloth, and Cultural Production Edited by Joan Livingstone and John Ploof

When preparing your submission keep in mind that the zine is photocopied in black and white on legal paper. While there is room for one center-fold (or I guess two if you think about the cover) 8 ½ x 14 other collages will be reproduced on 8 ½ x 7 spaces.This issue will come out sometime this winter, so submit you clothing collages by December 1, 2008. You can send your collage (a hi-res, 300 dpi image) to my yahoo address juliejeanus or if you prefer to mail it, e-mail me and I’ll send you my mailing address.

Also feel free to pass along any clothing-related songs, books, exhibitions, websites or exhibition reviews you’ve written along. If you submit a collage you will receive a free issue of la colle in exchange for your contribution.