WEEK 3-Hussein Chalayan

Chalayan’s works in clothing, like Afterwords (2000) and Burka (1996) , are often challenging to both the viewer and the wearer. What are your personal responses to these works? Are Afterwords and Burka fashion, or are they art? What is the difference?
In my point of view,  Chalayan is a really interesting person, his works full of creatively, and these works broadened my horizon. His every work shows his exhibition, and also can catch people’s eyes at first time.
The relationship between fashion and art is always so subtle differences between the nature of the use of Rei Kawakubo's words: "Fashion is actively involved in the arts is a passive acceptance." However, once out of their clothes, deep into the fashion system, we can easily find, communicate with the media which designers fashion show had not previously "commodity promotion." Actor 、 audience 、 scenery, are a lot of designers and models together with the final "curtain call", both suggesting that the fashion show and stage art does not exist between the nature of the difference. When the audience passively accept the T stage of the "drama", it does not hinder their future aggressively to fashion wore.

 

 

Chalayan has strong links to industry. Pieces like The Level Tunnel (2006) and Repose(2006) are made in collaboration with, and paid for by, commercial business; in these cases, a vodka company and a crystal manufacturer.  Does the meaning of art change when it is used to sell products? Is it still art?
Merchandise and atmosphere of artistic ideas, by no means the essence of art and soul, the arts may be high-end commodities, only in the arts of influence and potential in the artistic ideas, but can not always carry the essence of art..
I don't think the meaning of art changes when it is used to sell products. It is still art.. If art is used to sell something it is still art..
Chalayan’s film Absent Presence screened at the 2005 Venice Biennale. It features the process of caring for worn clothes, and retrieving and analysing the traces of the wearer, in the form of DNA. This work has been influenced by many different art movements; can you think of some, and in what ways they might have inspired Chalayan’s approach?

Absent Presene, a video installation telling a story based on identity, geography, genetics, biology and anthropology. It opens the argument on how certain identities can or cannot adapt to new environments and generates a research based narration for Hussein's cross-disciplined installation with filmic images and sculptures. In my opinion, The film questions whether the extent to which identities can adapt to new environments.

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Many of Chalayan’s pieces are physically designed and constructed by someone else; for example, sculptor Lone Sigurdsson made some works from Chalayan’s Echoform (1999) and Before Minus Now (2000) fashion ranges. In fashion design this is standard practice, but in art it remains unexpected. Work by artists such as Jackson Pollock hold their value in the fact that he personally made the painting. Contrastingly, Andy Warhol’s pop art was largely produced in a New York collective called The Factory, and many of his silk-screened works were produced by assistants. Contemporarily, Damien Hirst doesn’t personally build his vitrines or preserve the sharks himself. So when and why is it important that the artist personally made the piece?
I think it is really important for artist to make their work personally. if a artist make his or her work personally, he or she must be know the work which going to be made better.





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