Re-Visioning Fashion Theories: Postcolonial and Critical Transcultural Perspectives

Saturday, 12th December 2015

Locations:
10:00 / Academy of Fine Arts, Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse 3, Room 206, 1070 Vienna
14:00 / University of Applied Arts Vienna, Angewandte Innovation Laboratory (AIL), Franz-Josefs-Kai 3, 1010 Vienna

10:00 – 12:30
Panel 4: The Global Fashion Industry: Neoliberalism, Cultural Appropriation and Empowering Alternatives

Organizing Markets in the Global Fashion Industry
Patrik Aspers, Uppsala University (SE)

Fashion Copying and Racial Feelings
Min-Ha T. Pham, Pratt Institute, New York (USA)

The Commodification of Ethnicity: Vlisco Fabrics
Christine Delhaye, University of Amsterdam (NL)

Open Wear. On the Social Design of Fashion
Zoe Romano, Milano (I)

Chair: Monica Titton, University of Applied Arts, Vienna

12:30 – 14:00
Lunch break & Transfer to Angewandte Innovation Laboratory

14:00 – 15:00
Welcome: Beatrice Jaschke, Co-director postgraduate program /ecm as representative of Barbara Putz-Plecko, Vice Rector, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Panel 5: No Liability is Taken for Wardrobe. Resistance in Fashion and Production
Location: University of Applied Arts, AIL – Angewandte Innovation Laboratory

Curator?s tour through the exhibition: Johannes Mantl & Eva Meran

15:00 – 17:30
Decolonizing Imaginaries in the Fashion World

Keynote: Kemi Bassene, Clark House Initiative, Paris (F)

Respondent: Sonja Eismann, Berlin (D)

Chair: Nora Sternfeld, University of Applied Arts, Vienna & Aalto University Helsinki (FI)

17:30 – 18:30
Performance: B[e]Ware – Singer vs. Abhörapparat
Klaus Erich Dietl & Stephanie Müller, Munich (D)

18:30
Drinks & Closing of the Conference