Participation and the Retail Installation

The speed of business is faster than ever. As our use of technology evolves to make our lives more efficient, the basic needs of food, clothing, and shelter have been reduced into fast, easily acquired and digested models that allow us to purchase and go back to living life without having to really consider our decision making process. Retail can be a complex experience that slows the indifferent momentum of the viewer by offering an exchange of information and knowledge.  In this project, the garment functions as a tool for creating this experience.  You are invited to make a garment with me, to experience a  slow down of the retail experience that will enable you to assess your own creative approach to dress through the assembly of garment fragments. The complexity of construction shifts the focus away from the practicalities of purchase towards new considerations for the garment’s use and purpose.  As I help you to assemble a garment, I act as the agent to interfere with the speed of purchase, to make the efficient capitalist system inefficient.