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
The project begins with a focus on one word-parachute: a ‘soft’ body armature worn to float or fly from the view of the poet. An example of a threaded data path is that parachutes were used extensively in WW2 where military men, supplies and propaganda were dropped from planes to targets on the ground; parachutes were made of silk; women’s lingerie companies turned their production over to parachute manufacturing during the war effort; nylon was developed to replace Japanese imported silk so as to replace reliance on the enemy etc. The project includes an annotated bibliography, video and photography as document to live performative events, a series of sewn garments from WW2 parachutes under the label ‘remove before flight’, and bookwork.