INDIVIDUAL EVENTS

The activities as part of Individual Events are initiated by (local) designers and artists and co-created in collaboration between FASHIONCLASH and partners as Toneelacademie Maastricht, Via Zuid and Toneelgroep Maastricht. You will get to know the participants and their work through various video portraits and reports that have been created leading up to the digital edition of FASHIONCLASH Festival.


Friday 26 February


18:00

Saturday 27 February


14:00 18:00 19:30

Decolonization Dialogues, iArts Maastricht
Maastricht, The Netherlands

As the world changes, societal standards and ideals transform along the way. Distinctions between disciplines no longer apply in a world where everything overlaps, where everything is connected. Creativity and innovative thinking become important factors that range from entrepreneurial initiatives to scientific research. This is where iArts Maastricht comes in; in an interdisciplinary world, students learn to be critically-engaged thinkers, artistic analysts and creative entrepreneurs through the different disciplines and forms they are exposed to. Developing concepts that are triggered directly from real-life issues, they create artistic interventions within project-based structures.

Together with second year students from iArts Maastricht, Nina Willems and Linda Valkeman are building a ‘Decolonial Counter Archive’. In this archive they try to make stories and images from non-western cultures, that are often not visible in "regular archives", visible for the audience. In an interactive online session the iArts student will try to find answers (or more questions?) together with their online audience by entering a dialogue: How can you step into the complex topic of decolonization? How can you invite and engage different voices in the conversation? How can we develop a dialogue on decolonization (of fashion)?

‘Decolonial Counter Archive’ is based on the archive of the preliminary research by Linda Valkeman in her own projects, and artistic research, done by the students in the months leading up to FASHIONCLASH Festival. “It’s our aim to enter into a new dialogue with visitors, based on the 'Decolonial Counter Archive.'”

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Photo: Linda Valkeman/ New Fashion Narratives 2019 at Bureau Europa by Laura Knipsael

­Anne Meffert
Maastricht, The Netherlands

Anne Meffert is a theatre director and documentary maker who graduated from the Institute of Performative Arts in Maastricht. Perfect topics for her work are everything she is frightened of or insecure about. This results in theatrical performances in where she or her performers improvise and where either the audience can feel very uncomfortable or enjoy themselves.

‘If only my belly was made of gold’ is a physical theatre play about the bigger belly. How big? Bigger than the XS mannequin bellies you saw earlier this week in the shop window.

There will be:

- 5 performers with bigger bellies (some bigger than others)
- 1 director with a bigger belly
- 1 composer who experimented with the sound of a belly (digesting)
- 1 visual artist who experimented with the infinite movement of a belly (breathing)
- 1 fashion designer who experimented with the bigger belly as a beauty feature (showing)

What else can the bigger belly be than unwanted by many in the Western World? Let’s start with the bigger belly as a piece of art!

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Photo: Ies Kaczmarek

Anouk van Klaveren
The Hague, The Netherlands

The work of Anouk van Klaveren playfully analyzes the driving forces of fashion’s seductive nature. Intertwining fiction and non-fiction, she creates interventions, performances, fashion, jewellery and sculptures which are used as a tool to reveal and question normative structures.

‘Peach Tree, Ambiguous’ marks Anouk van Klaveren’s second project in her continuous inquiry about functionality; desire and ceremonial performance. Doused within the realm of commercialized daydreams, Anouk portrays today’s e-environment and its inherent consumer myths. Simulating a tribalized department-store, ‘Peach Tree, Ambiguous’ shows a wide range of purposefully advertised objects, all blurring the thin line between need and wanting; cause and effect; the voyeur and the exhibitionist. And it’s a memorable Gifting Idea Too.

Anouk is co-founder of collective Das Leben am Haverkamp. Her work has been shown at Centraal Museum, Zeeuws Museum, Salone del Mobile and at the International Fashion Showcase London.

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Chiron Floris Brussels, BelgiumNostalgia and high-quality garments are the most significant to describe Chiron Floris’ style. She gets her inspiration from work wear and her concepts are always personal. She works in a poetic way and strives to make…

Chiron Floris
Brussels, Belgium

Nostalgia and high-quality garments are the most significant to describe Chiron Floris’ style. She gets her inspiration from work wear and her concepts are always personal. She works in a poetic way and strives to make easy to wear and nonchalant shapes. High quality fabrics meet loose and fluid shapes. Chiron is not only drawn by aesthetics of work wear but also by the concept behind it. Every garment should serve you for a long time.

“When I was little I visited my grandparents every week, my grandfather would take me to his workplace where he worked as a shoemaker. As a child I was fascinated by my grandfather’s profession and as designer I am inspired by work wear. I search for timelessness in fashion, I see it as a challenge to create something timeless in a fast-moving industry. I am documenting my collection ‘PORT DE BRAS’ in a film. By collaborating with dancers, I want to tell the story of my grandfather, show the motion of the everyday life and play a game with functionality and movement.”

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Photo: Kara Numan

DOMINIK
Maastricht, The Netherlands

DOMINIK is a group of visual artists (Mike Moonen, Don Possen and Nika Schmitt) that use elements of pre-owned clothes or fabrics to connect their individual practices. They operate in ‘grey areas’ that can be found in between fashion, art, clothing and sculpture, concept and material, quality and value, streetwear and couture. DOMINIK aims for a visual punch that seems ‘meant to be’.

Being part of FASHIONCLASH Festival, DOMINIK improvises with existing elements of design and fashion by pasting preowned clothes together in a playful manner - regardless the brand, geographical origin or ‘zeitgeist’. Every piece is unique through its composition of elements and not through its innovative design. Some edits are very simple but are enough to give clothes a total new life or context.

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LLIS
Maastricht, The Netherlands

LLIS is a collective of Iris Claessens, Laura Knipsael, Laurie Bessems and Sam Schobbe: four young designers, working in various disciplines - from jewellery, knitwear, photography and print design. Throughout the years they have been involved in several FASHIONCLASH activities such as the Fashion House Business Development Program and FASHIONCLASH Festival. Four strong individuals combining their ideas to create an even more powerful message. The works of the different disciplines are curated in a way a new landscape arises.

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Photo: Laura Knipsael

Liselot Hoekstra
Utrecht, The Netherlands

Liselot Hoekstra recently graduated in Fashion Design from HKU University of the Arts, Utrecht. She describes herself as an autonomous maker with roots in fashion who believes that, in order to point fashion in a sustainable direction, we need to establish deeper connections with the clothes we wear. Liselot combines fashion, film and performance in her work in order to create surprising narratives.

In her performance ‘Deadstock Island’ Liselot takes you on a journey through the world of the living garments. This project rooted from her frustrations with the way in which fashion nowadays is often treated and is the result of her search to decide her role in this, as an aspiring fashion designer. Liselot invites you into the emotional world of clothing via wearable installations that turn garments into puppets: the clothes come to live. It’s her purpose to make the viewer question the relationship it has with its garments and inspire them to make them last longer.

’Deadstock Island’ will be part of the Fashion Makes Sense Award Show on Saturday the 27th of February, 14.00 (+1 GMT)

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Photo: Leon de Haas

SHROUD
Maastricht, The Netherlands

SHROUD is an educational collaborative project between Valentine Kempynck, FASHIONCLASH and Toneelacademie Maastricht. Students from various departments are involved in the project. The project is initiated by Valentine Kempynck, who is conducting research at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Under the title "The sacred space of the action" she develops symbolic and practical shrouds. In this way she wants to place death in life so that the dark can find its place again.

A shroud is an enclosure in which you can be buried or cremated. It is the final "costume" and co-symbolizes the personification of the parting mortal. The cloth of the shroud carries an authentic story and ritual. From the bond between the mortal and the designer, manners and images emerge that convey an authenticity and value that you would never imagine alone. What does this mean for the designer who appropriates a story and then gives it back? What physicality of the audience causes this ritual? Which appropriate choreography does this enforce? Both design and execution, but also the way in which the body is placed and the closing of the shroud lead to a ritual.

The presentation will consist of showing the shrouds made and the accompanying rituals.

Students: Noah Janssen, Cecilia Thoden van Velzen (regie), Isa Kasten, Pauli Immig (scenografie en kostuumontwerp), Sara Schoon, Nine van Weert (kostuumontwerp), Tara Barendrecht, Just van Bommel (performers)


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Talentlab
Maastricht, The Netherlands

The fourth edition of Talentlab, the talent development project of Toneelgroep Maastricht and VIA ZUID, takes place during FASHIONCLASH Festival. In Talentlab young promising professional talents from the performing arts work together intensively for a month to further develop their artistry. This time they will be inspired by each other and by fashion. FASHIONCLASH Festival participant Carlijn Veurink is one of the participants of Talentlab 2020.

Inspiration from fashion

Accompanied by Paul Slangen (TgM) and Joost Segers (VIA ZUID), a collective is working on performing artists with different signatures. Paul Slangen: "Being able to offer our talents a stage within the programming of FASHIONCLASH Festival is a wonderful opportunity. Fashion uses a lot of theatrical means. The way designers look at clothing is in itself theatrical, but its presentation in the 'fashion show' is theatre to the max. It's about seeing and being seen, about movement and rhythm. Fashion is also very musical and has a theatrical set-up: the catwalk with an audience on both sides that is challenging for performing artists".

Joost Segers: "FASHIONCLASH Festival is a cutting-edge festival that focuses on breaking down disciplines and looking for social relevance. That fits in perfectly with the new generation of performing artists. It offers a good frame for our young artists to enter into an experimental process with each other, a creative 'CLASH'.

Promising collective

The eight participants of Talentlab have different backgrounds in music, film, poetry, performance, choreography and direction and have a multidisciplinary orientation. The collective for this fourth edition consists of Femke Arnouts (actress - theater maker), Celine Daemen (director - interdisciplinary artist), Maarten Heijnens (theater maker, performer - interdisciplinary artist), Guido Hoek ( multi-instrumentalist - composer - music theater maker - performer), Terence 'Machete' Van Lange (dance - spoken word), Ilse Oostvogels (director - engaged documentary theatre maker), Carlijn Veurink (costume designer - performer) and Mees Walter (theatre maker - performer - designer - visual artist).

Talentlab 2020 came about thanks in part to the support of Fonds Podiumkunsten, the Province of Limburg and the Municipality of Maastricht.

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Photo: Bjorn Frins

All content produced as part of the digital edition of FASHIONCLASH Festival is created in an environment where all applicable COVID-19 measures have been strictly observed

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