Fashion humor and ressurection: Beyond flesh and death

Funshion: please click on the image!













Photos: http://www.goaheadrobus.com/

This concept is about fun in fashion. About fashion irreverence and playfulness as an aesthetic proposal.

Funshion can ne seen as the new "casual wear", because after all isn't casual about fun and easiness? Well now, it is also being irreverent and playful.

The Funshion concept can be attributed to the Danish collaborative project called "Go Ahead Rob Us". It consists of two girls Anne Werner and Stine Tranekaer who make clothes and art installations amongst others, but most importantly, they make fun a tangible design position.

An absurd and compelling one that challenges shapes, materials, symbols, and any given assumptions, starting off by the name of their collective: "Go Ahead Rob Us".

Its trademark is a distinctive pop light spirited way to approach fashion and fine arts.

Fabrics and shapes are turned into pretty much anything, as Jaconfetti knows. The Danish Hip Hop duo got their album cover and some clothes made by "Go ahead..." collective.

Ladies your Funshion is taken seriously!

www.myspace.com/jaconfetti

Popsychedelik xkizofriends

Glam Street Pop Fun

The Clubkids are gone, yet their art legacy is still around. Popsychedelik xkizofriendx concept refers to the "glossy street pop frenetic" aesthetic the Clubkids developed and established.

The photos portray chaos, overcrowded spaces with colors, textures, movement, multi-dimensions and lots of joy and fun. Makes me think about David Chapelle's work; though the Clubkids seem more real as their work and life were closely intertwined. Is their work a party diary?

The Clubkids' work also remind me of Mariko Mori's piece called "The Birth of a star" (1995) As Christian Haye "states: "Mori’s work tends to make one wonder whether the art world’s current taste is for arty fashion or fashionable art". Ultimately Mori is bridging pop culture, art and fashion by making it relative, as unimportant but ultimately giving it a proper place and moment in time.

Beyond the pop crafted xkizophrenic photos of the Clubkids, I believe they also portrayed the more open ways in which people are doing things today. We are witnessing passion turning into profession, creativity turning into careers' platforms. This is not a new phenomenon, just a very tangible one. So keep on following your guts kids!

Photos:

Clubkids: www.myspace.com/joeyelgersma
Mariko Mori: http://www.mcachicago.org/

Christian Haye: 24Back2 Mariko Mori

http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/24back2_mariko_mori/

Splash some Electro Performance

Fischerspooner

Photos: www.myspace.com/fischerspooner

Fischerspooner has been defined as an"Electroclash duo performance". Its compelling and strong art proposal consists of music, theater, fashion, performance, film and photography. It is hard to pick one of the different creative outlets they work with as their strongest, as I believe the all are integrated, in balance, and overall building blocks to their unique artistic offering.

Their work has been shown in art galleries and music halls around the world. They are represented by the music label Kitsune and the Deitch Project Gallery in NYC, both very niche and exquisite names in their own domains.

This versatile duo was created by Casey Spooner and Warren Fischer in 1998. Their art pop performance project is not only created but staged by them. Meaning that they act as artists, producing fresh ideas, and staging them involving dance, theater, fashion, music etc.. as a way to materialize and communicate their work.

Fischerspooner's work is not a static art piece. It is in motion by integrating different art languages and media, and reaching therefore broader audiences. It redefines the role of artists and the way they engage and connect with audiences. They challenge the way of understanding creative disciplines and its potential when conciving them as one.

Dare to get hooked to http://www.myspace.com/fischerspooner !

Hyperhumans

Photos: http://www.lucyandbart.blogspot.com/

Hyperhumans

Hyperhumans is a concept that looks into the representations of the dialectic between men and technology and its outcome: mutation.

The concept explores the transformation from the fusion of the technology into the body, as an accessory. This transformation is providing a new meaning to the body. Its mass and structure have been affected so they inhabit the space differently, I call them living sculptures.

Lucy and Bart

The work of Lucy and Bart would help me to explain the concept of Living Sculptures, using the body as a tool to defy the body itself . It becomes a means to define humans mass, movement, gravity and spatial limits, as well as its purpose and potential.

Their work can be described as Hyperhumans, where extremities are prolonged, denoting gracious possibilities and mutations of the human body. Body as a tool of men to achieve, to become a faster performer, an adaptable specie, a volatile material.

Are men evolving into a transcendent force, acquiring machine and creatures’ attributes in order to succeed in a technological era?

Lucy and Bart are triggering us to think about spatial and body referents differently. Their work question creative disciplines’ boundaries, and transforms the space into body architecture, as a way to inhabit a context, with a more meaningful and adaptable presence.