Von Kleidern bekleidet
With pupils from the Alfred-Nobel-Schule
“Von Kleidern bekleidet” is a playful research about what we wear. The stories behind our clothes and our stories through clothes. “Every time we get dressed, we transform in some way the forms and the colours of the world”, says philosopher E. Coccia. Clothes might protect us, but they also unavoidably project our bodies into a complex universe of relationships, images and signs. Together with the students of the Alfred-Nobel-Schule, the artistic team around Tamara and Tatiana Saphir and Katharina Joy Book explores the joys and burdens of the (relative) freedom of getting dressed every day through speculative pasts and futures of their t-shirts, stories of their favorite outfits and of those they don’t like anymore. Dreams of big brands and (not so) high fashion. Nightmares of colourful landscapes filled by fast-fashion excesses. Clothes as second skin, as shells, memberships, doors, vessels… They use and abuse them as a dramaturgical machine to reflect on ourselves, our becoming and the worlds around us.