A Worn World

August 1st at the Goethe Institut! The ongoing international project will be in Montreal for two weeks!

This artistic intersocial space is open to everybody, including those with no artistic or creative experience! The project is designed to be a somatic experience where participants are asked to bring with them an item of clothing that has sentimental value in order to “rework.” Through audio guides and personal guidance from the artists, workshops and open studios will be held in order to copy, accessorize, destroy or anything you feel inspired to do with your item. Throughout the process, you may contribute to the collective notebooks, and will be taken by the artists as part of the continuous project. A ball will also be held when the project ends where you can dance in the items you’ve worked! The artist duo Deufert&Plischke combine dance and design to explore themes of performance, identity politics, and sustainability. “We all dress, therefore we all perform.” Deufert&Plischke thematize the personality of our exterior, and how identities are heavily reliant on what we wear.

“A Worn World” provides a safe space for anyone to explore the performance they wear, and tactically create worlds they might wish to live in, enhance, or destroy! “Your clothes are now a performer, it doesn’t matter how you look in that moment, what really matters is what is your personal relation to what you’re wearing. What do you carry around and how do the clothes you wear carry you? Through this we access the imaginary world, the dreams and the desires, the symbolic power.” Your items become the main character, creating an experiences of physical, somatic and imaginary processes.

“In the pandemic times, I think people have rediscovered that if I can do something with my hands it’s very valuable…The world is very much a stage that we can play with”, and Deufert&Plischke insists on disrupting that stage by the drive to inspire community without any social-normative pressures or exclusivity.

Free admission and kid friendly!
Being present for the full two weeks is not mandatory!

To know more/to register:
caroline.gagnon@goethe.de
514-499-0159 #107

Date and Time

Monday, Aug 1 , 3 p.m. to Saturday, Aug 13 , 9 p.m.

Location