The Fashion Archive, Curation & Mediation Lab explores the cultural scope of fashion archives (public and private), fashion publications, fashion exhibitions and performances through the investigation, problematization and re-animation of European and Parisian experiences. The aim is to develop a series of research seminars, symposiums, talks, publications and exhibitions to rethink the mediation of fashion in the contemporary scene and further explore the current state of practices such as fashion publishing, exhibiting fashion as well as the cultural relevance of archives as spaces where fashion is produced, conserved, communicated, disseminated, performed and institutionalized.
Recent Activities & Publications:
November 2017 (forthcoming) – Marco Pecorari, “Beyond the Garment: Towards a Specificity of Fashion Curating?”, Fashion Curating: Critical Practice in the Museum and Beyond, edited by Hazel Clark and Annamari Vänska, Bloomsbury Publisher, 2017
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/fashion-curating-9781474287098/
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May 2017 – Conference ‘Fashion (Digital) Memories’, co-organised with Europeana Fashion & IUAV University of Venice, 22-23 May 2017, Venice
http://pro.europeana.eu/blogpost/memories-from-fashion-digital-memories-europeana-fashion-symposium-2017
Partners:
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/collections/fashion
http://www.iuav.it/homepage/
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September 2016 – Marco Pecorari, “The Liveness of Fashion: Performance as a Curatorial Act”, in Fashion Curating, Understanding Fashion Through the Exhibition, edited by Luca Marchetti, Geneve: HEAD Publishing, 2016
https://www.hesge.ch/head/publication/mode-exposee-fashion-curating
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May 2016 – Conference ‘Fashion and the Museum’, chaired by Marco Pecorari, organized by Het Nieuwe Instituut, Participants: Corinna Gardner (Victoria & Albert Museum), Kaat Debo (The Fashion Museum of Antwerp), Alistair O’Neill (Central Saint Martins), Guus Beumer (Het Nieuwe Instituut), 5th May 2016, Rotterdam, Holland
https://hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en/fashion-and-museum
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March 2016 – Marco Pecorari, ‘Re-Fashioning the Institution: Reflections on the Temporary Fashion Museum’, essay for the project The Temporary Fashion Museum, published 28th March 2016, Het Nieuw Instituut, Rotterdam
https://tijdelijkmodemuseum.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en/refashioning-institution-reflections-temporary-fashion-museum
For further information please contact:
Marco Pecorari, Program Director MA Fashion Studies, pecorarm@newschool.edu
