The project explores the historical and cultural significance of parachutes, from WWII utility to their transformation into garments and multimedia documentation under the label 'remove before flight'.
Sustainable building project in Post conflict Gulu Uganda
The project includes an annotated bibliography, video and photography as document to live performative events.
The 'urban reversedress' project examines how reconstructed garments can retain memories and histories, led by PI pk langshaw and Professor Sandra Weber.
In.site symposium development and implementation
Community Masks : From Studio to Frontline
Parachute un.folds : follow the threads
Sustainable building project in Post conflict Gulu Uganda
Parachute un.folds : follow the threads
d_verse: transitional algorhythms of gesture
Public Art as Social Intervention
Declarations of inter.depence and the immediacy of design
Consolation House → Constellation HomePre-departure (Montreal): Planning, pattern testing, collaborative workshops, and activities throughout 2014.On-site Residency (Gulu): Working with CVAP Ugandan student Jane Aciro to create adaptive/individualized patterns and garments for 26 children (ages 6 months to 19 years).Each child had specific needs, requiring a garment that is either:Easy to put on autonomously by a child with mental/learning challenges.Designed for caregivers to dress children with severe physical challenges, such as missing limbs, body bone/muscle atrophy due to illness, limb immobility, progressive genetic/muscular diseases, or paralysis (only mobile via wheelchair or rolling bed).Additional skirts for caregivers were also sewn.
St. Jude Children’s Home Residency
August 2014.