The next event on the our schedule, after the successful opening of Ego Systems at White Tube, Hong Kong Arts Centre, is a three day conference featuring an exciting array of international speakers focusing on fashion, not solely as an "industry", but as an expression of various sub-cultural desires and situations.
You can link here, and access the conference website, where you can find the full three day schedule (December 8,9,10), information about registering for conference, and directions to the conference site.
Please come, enjoy, and participate!
And don't forget our final event - an exhibition and "Flash Cabaret" at Videotage, December 10, starting at 6pm. Food and beverage will be served!
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Thanks for a successful opening
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Thanks to everyone, especially all the artists, who helped open the Ego Systems / 身份實例 exhibition - And the show continues until December 5!
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Extra/Ordinary Dress Code Three Event Program
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In out current banner please see advertised: Ego Systems / 身份實例
The first part of the three part Extra/Ordinary Dress Code program
which consists of:
Ego Systems / 身份實例
@ White Tube – The gallery of The Hong Kong Art School
白管子 – 香港藝術學院畫廊
November 6 - December 5, 2009
Extra/Ordinary Dress Code: Costuming and the Second Skin in Asia
International Conference @ City University of Hong Kong
一個探討主流及次文化時裝服式的國際研討會
December 8,9,10, 2009
The Rest of Us
@ Videotage
土瓜灣馬頭角道63號牛棚藝術村，錄影太奇
December 10 - 24, 2009
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ANY OF THESE PROGRAMS STAY TUNED
OR YOU ARE WELCOME TO WRITE:
extraordinarydresscode@yahoo.com
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Welcome to the Fantasy Fashion Festival
We’re happy to announce the inclusion of TokyoFashion.Com in our program (What’s the program? See below) as a “live stream” from his flickr blog (no product endorsements . . . just the image) . . . one of those things that you come across, across the bandwidth (I was looking for something else . . . and this found me) . . . TokyoFashion.Com’s excellent tireless documentation of everything out there (a lot of humans out there) on the streets of Tokyo. We’re trying to do the same thing here in Hong Kong
TokyoFashion.Com will be included in our exhibition at Videotage beginning December 10, but you can start now:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tokyofashion/
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Updated descriptions and dates of extra/ordinary program activities
Extra/Ordinary Dress Code: Costuming and the Second Skin in Asia
By way of academic and artistic endeavors Extra/Ordinary Dress Code explores local and global fashion and sub-cultural style - Focusing on modes of dress, aesthetic trends and cultural politics – Reflecting on gender, age, sexuality, lived experience, consumer habits and the ways a material commodity is integral to the creative industries –
1. A CONFERENCE held at City University of Hong Kong on December 8,9,10, 2009 with invited international scholars and artists, such as Vicky Karaminas, Louise Bak, and Hazel Clark. The conference takes a critical look at fashion in relation to the local and global histories of clothing, styles of appearance and dressing-up, the semiotics of mainstream society and deviant sub-cultures.
2. A GALLERY SHOW at Videotage on December 10, 2009 exhibiting a COLLABORATIVE PHOTO PROJECT documenting the everyday dress of the people of Hong Kong by way of full body size photos printed and exhibited on roll-up banners and A4 size prints. Models include a wide spectrum of Hong Kong types and lifestyles; ALSO the fantasy costuming of four local Cosplayers, along with live appearances by our "street models" and "Cosplayers” (not exactly a "catwalk", but most definitely a live interaction).
3. A CABARET style event, at the opening of the Videotage exhibition on December 10, 2009 inviting a mix of artists and academics to explain “fashion” as it stands right now within their lives and practices. Confirmed participants include Toronto based poet Louise Bak, Taiwanese filmmaker Mia Chen, Viennese artist Nino Jaeger, and local artist Him Lo.
4. A GROUP SHOW at The White Tube Gallery, Hong Kong Art Center in November/December 2009, exhibiting a juried selection of four different semester’s work from the SPEED Digital Imaging course at the Hong Kong Art School. Students were required to create an alternate or "fake" identity using themselves as the model, and Digital Imaging as their form.
By way of academic and artistic endeavors Extra/Ordinary Dress Code explores local and global fashion and sub-cultural style - Focusing on modes of dress, aesthetic trends and cultural politics – Reflecting on gender, age, sexuality, lived experience, consumer habits and the ways a material commodity is integral to the creative industries –
1. A CONFERENCE held at City University of Hong Kong on December 8,9,10, 2009 with invited international scholars and artists, such as Vicky Karaminas, Louise Bak, and Hazel Clark. The conference takes a critical look at fashion in relation to the local and global histories of clothing, styles of appearance and dressing-up, the semiotics of mainstream society and deviant sub-cultures.
2. A GALLERY SHOW at Videotage on December 10, 2009 exhibiting a COLLABORATIVE PHOTO PROJECT documenting the everyday dress of the people of Hong Kong by way of full body size photos printed and exhibited on roll-up banners and A4 size prints. Models include a wide spectrum of Hong Kong types and lifestyles; ALSO the fantasy costuming of four local Cosplayers, along with live appearances by our "street models" and "Cosplayers” (not exactly a "catwalk", but most definitely a live interaction).
3. A CABARET style event, at the opening of the Videotage exhibition on December 10, 2009 inviting a mix of artists and academics to explain “fashion” as it stands right now within their lives and practices. Confirmed participants include Toronto based poet Louise Bak, Taiwanese filmmaker Mia Chen, Viennese artist Nino Jaeger, and local artist Him Lo.
4. A GROUP SHOW at The White Tube Gallery, Hong Kong Art Center in November/December 2009, exhibiting a juried selection of four different semester’s work from the SPEED Digital Imaging course at the Hong Kong Art School. Students were required to create an alternate or "fake" identity using themselves as the model, and Digital Imaging as their form.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
二零零九年香港時尚款式
Andrew Guthrie 與馮偉倫及其他多人的協助下， 已開始了二零零九年香港時尚款式計劃。此計劃將會記錄香港人在二零零九年的時尚風格。由今年七月至十一月，項目將拍攝一百個人的等身全體肖像（立為暫時目標）。項目完成之後，畫像將於畫廊陳列展覽（地址有待宣布）。如果我們已拍了你的寫照，而你並希望拿取一份副本，請以電址郵件方式聯繫我們，寫上你的全名及通信地址，題為 “Photo Request”，寄發到電址郵箱 extraordinarydresscode@yahoo.com。
如果你想為此項目當模特兒，請寫信給我們的電子郵件信箱，寫上你的聯絡資料並附加一張你的小相片，題為 “I Want To Model”，發送到 extraordinarydresscode@yahoo.com。我們力求尋找的模特兒特徵無分差別，徵求特點包括平常或特別，富有或貧窮，年輕的或上了年紀的——我們追求的目標是盡可能密切地描繪香港的人口。
The Hong Kong Style Project 2009, which hopes to take 100 full-length portraits of “Hong Kong People” is not an entirely original idea (but still might fill a need or satisfy a desire), and has been undertaken at different times (in the history of photography) and has taken many forms (from the artistic to the bureaucratic):
American photographer Richard Avedon did a series of portraits while traveling around western USA, “looking for faces he liked”
American photographer Amy Arbus (daughter of the iconic photographer Diane Arbus) worked for The Village Voice in New York City during the 1970s and 80s producing a weekly series called “On The Street”
Japanese photographer Shoichi Aoki began in the 1990s to document wildly dressed teenagers in Harajuku in Tokyo in a series (and magazine) called “Fruits”
In addition, Hong Kong Time Out magazine features a photograph of “street fashion” in each issue. So how will we distinguish our project? It’s all in the subject matter, presenting Hong Kong in all its refined and/or ragged glory, looking for “faces we like”.
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