Wild Dress
By
Emily Joy
2024
- Sculpture
- Installation Art
- Craft and Design
- Mixed Media
- Live Art
- Socially Engaged Practice
- Digital and New Media Art
- Socioeconomic Structures & Consumerism
- Environment & Sustainability
- Urban Dynamics & Public Realm
- Participatory & Collaborative
- Social & Political
- Mixed Media Textile Art
- Weaving
- Sound Art
- Sonic Art
Dimensions
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Wild Dress is an immersive sonic work that explores wilderness, landscape and our place within it, through the medium of clothing. Weaving together stories and essays by professor of Sustainable Fashion Kate Fletcher, Wild Dress teases us towards a transformation in human-nature relations.
Created by Kate Fletcher, immersive sound designer Carolyn Downing and director/dramaturg Zoë Svendsen.
Head to Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking to listen to Wild Dress caught in the wind around Hawkwood. You will need headphones, a smartphone and the ‘Echoes’ app: see here for instructions on how to download it.
Also see here for information on accessibility.
Wild Dress was launched at Hawkwood as part of their May Day Festival 2024, with an interactive installation created in collaboration with Stroud-based artists Emily Joy and Alison Cockcroft (Periscope) and Nicola Builder (Wayward Weaves). There were two Wild Dress Community Weaving Workshops in the lead-up to the launch, creating tabards woven from the landscapes all around. Please see here for more detail.
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