Who am I to wear this? I find it crucial how an item of clothing feels when worn. Instinctively tactile, visually pleasing… but when pondering further the material confronts my skin. I wonder, whose lives are sacrificed for this garment I wear? This paper presents the process of crafting my work together with nature, how I witness possibilities of self-sustained collaboration between organisms and human beings discovering each other and growing together in novel metabiosis. Growing my own craft through urban micro-farming - and rethinking the lifecycle of materials - I have found a path towards a “wild” mix of biodegradable methods in body- sculpted fashion. A method I call Couture Vivante, creating textiles together with non-human bodies and imagining possible futures of ethical production. Transforming natural elements into after-life craft, reforming ecosystems around symbiosis between source and wearer. The living materials are art pieces crafted as first prototypes in my research which places emphasis on wearable materials as progress-in-motion, rather than a static or finished product. This work connects to a wider context of socio-economic and ethical structural practice. My ideal is not a vision of utopia, it is a balanced flow between humans, vegetation, textile and living creatures. Here I see an expression of the importance of man's too often ignored dependency on nature and - perhaps - coming to a point where we can realise the inherent magic instead of harming it.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:konstfack-9215 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Nurk, Linda |
| Publisher | Konstfack, Textil |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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