No bodies : clothing as disruptor / curated by Alva Greenberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greenberg, Alva, organizer.

Real Art Ways (Organization), host institution.

Hudson River Museum, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clothing and dress in art--Exhibitions.

Clothing and dress in art.

Genre:

exhibition catalogs.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

158 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Manufacture:

[West Haven, Conn.] : Printed by Cannelli Printing, Inc.

Other Title:

Clothing as disruptor

Place of Publication:

[Connecticut?] : Alva Greenberg, [2025?]

Summary:

"Simply put, clothing is what we put on our bodies. We use it both to cover up and to reveal ourselves. It is also a tool we use to understand others. As an artistic medium, it embodies the tension between opposing forces--private experience and mass consumption, form and function, empowerment and vulnerability, personal expression and cultural expectation. Through bodiless artworks that reimagine and transform clothing, No Bodies: Clothing as Disruptor offers a multitude of societal portraits and invites visitors to engage with the intimate narratives they evoke. The artists in No Bodies use clothing to play with assumptions about materiality and cultural identity, and as a vehicle for social and political activism. In Shroud, a sea of suspended shirts, Rachel Breen asks us to stand in solidarity with garment workers. Inscribed on Patrick Carroll's t-shirt, created in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, are the ingredients of historical abortifacients. Rose Deler points up the cruelty of immigration policy with children's garments fashioned from the Mylar rescue blankets given to migrants at the U.S. border. In Jesse Krimes's quilt Skyline, an inmate's memories of wellbeing are retained in spite of the oppression of the prison-industrial complex. The beads in Erica Lord's loom-woven burden strap replicate the pixel-like format of DNA analysis of diseases affecting Indigenous communities. And Karen Shaw transforms a sports jersey into a hoop shirt--a winking reference to a hoop skirt--that subverts gender norms and blends masculine and feminine elements. No Bodies reveals how clothing can convey deeply personal stories while critiquing broader systems of production and regulation. Disrupting familiar clothing conventions, the artists illustrate how personal expression can reshape cultural and social norms. Their works unravel our presumptions about clothing, the stories it can carry, and the psychological weight it can bear. No Bodies asks us to reconsider clothing as not merely attire, or fashion, but a dynamic expression of both personal and collective identities. Curated by independent curator Alva Greenberg."--www.hrm.org, accessed 2025/08/08.

Notes:

This catalog was published by Alva Greenbergin conjunction with the exhibition "No bodies: clothing as disruptor" held on February 17 - April 20, 2024 at Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT and on Sptember 20, 2024 - January 26, 2025 at Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY.

Featured artists: Reginald Dwayne Betts, John Boone, Marsha Borden, Rachel Breen, Chris Burden, Patrick Carroll, Susan Clinard, Hannah Conradt, E.V. Day, Rose Deler, Lesley Dill, Anindita Dutta, Giannina Dwin, Carlos Estévez, Kathryn Frund, Jonathan Herrera Soto, Jesse Krimes, Robert Kushner, Ruth Lingen, Erica Lord, Whitfield Lovell, Adriana Marmorek, Senga Nengudi, Carol Paik, Sidney Russell, Barbara Ségal, Karen Shaw, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Micki Watanabe Spiller, Cindy Tower, and Cybèle Young.

OCLC:

1527997155