8th ISS in HONG KONG! (Dec 2011)

We're taking it to HONG KONG!
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Our 8th International Shibori Symposium is now in the planning stages. We are excited to announce our collaboration with the Institute of Textiles & Clothing of Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

If you'd like to get involved at the ground level, or you have some suggestions to give the Programming Committee, and/or you're interested in Presenting, Exhibiting, giving a Workshop, or making any proposals (venues, exhibition themes, etc)-- let's hear it. We're ready.

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More! Exhibition: “Transformation: Material • Magic • Memory” (Hong Kong)

Part of the open fashion lecture series hosted now at HKPU's ITC Fashion Gallery is the exhibition, “Transformation: Material • Magic • Memory." This is the first of its kind at the Institute of Textiles & Clothing. Please join us for this landmark exhibition.

EXHIBITION
“Transformation: Material • Magic • Memory”
Institute of Textiles & Clothing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Curated by Yoshiko I. Wada, President of World Shibori Network

The Fashion Gallery
Fashion & Textiles Resource Center MN109
March 1 - 26, 2010
* private viewing March 3, 3:00pm with special MC, Mr. Konstantine Kouros

Featuring works by nine internationally renowned artists/designers from Japan, USA, India, Switzerland, and Australia, including Junichi Arai, Jean Cacicado, Ana Lisa Hedstrom, Padmaja Krishnan, Tsuyoshi Kuno, Mascha Mioni, Rahul Mishra, Barbara RogersYoshiko I. Wada. The exhibiton highlights works by contemporary artists who pay homage to their rich traditions of cultural and artistic heritage while successfully capturing a forward movement by experimenting with new approaches.

Open Lecture: "Transformation. Material Magic. Memory" by Yoshiko Wada (23 & 25, Hong Kong)

For our friends in Hong Kong:

Hong Kong Poly Tech University's Institute of Textiles & Clothing (ITC) Resource Centre Fashion Gallery has been very busy. Last year, they put on the exhibition "Innovative Cloths of Junichi Arai" and also organized "Metallic Sound: works by Kinor Jiang & Junichi Arai" at the Bonington Gallery in Nottingham, UK. Next week ITC is hosting a lecture (and workshop) by Yoshiko I Wada and you're all invited! (open to public, registration requested, seats very limited)
view previous HKPTU blog posts here
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From ITC:

You are cordially invited to attend Public Lectures on "Memory, where what is new is what is old" and "Transformation, magic materialized" by Ms Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, President of World Shibori Network.

Lecture I: Memory, where what is new is what is old
23 Feb, Tuesday, 6:30pm – 9:30pm
ITC Resource Centre (MN109)
Some analysis of Japanese fashion design specificity and its translation seen in other designers. The on-going circulation of old feeds into new; low culture transforms into high culture; gender play; raw and refined. The lecture may touch upon the changing mode of technology, materials/consumer taste driven by social and political changes, using historical evolution in kimono industry.


Lecture II: Transformation, magic materialized
25 Feb, Thursday, 6:30pm – 9:30pm
ITC Resource Centre (MN109)
A wide range of possibility in material transformation. Explanation of fabric type, treatment processes, texturing and dyeing methods. Also how to transform 2D to 3D; a piece of cloth into kinetic sculpture which is a live fashion. Revisiting the magic of cloth and fiber and how technology impacts them and designers mind.

CONTACT: Yuki Cheng at 27666511 or email tcyuki@inet.polyu.edu.hk.
Lectures are open to public, registration requested, seats very limited.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
"WHERE INNOVATION MEETS APPLICATION"