back from the beyond!

Whoa! Where has all the time gone? And where, oh where, have I been, you may be asking? The summer was filled with so much travelling and art project-related things that the Anti-Factory store took a hiatus from being restocked and tended to. That will change soon! I'm in the process of making a ton of new stuff (sweaters, yum! little jackets! yum!). That sort of ilk. I know it sucks to be gone from Anti-Factory for so long, but I really needed to pull this other stuff together :)

BUT! I got back from a 2-week trip to Istanbul for the show "Hackers and Haute Couture Heretics," curated by Otto Von Busch at Garanti Gallery. It was an amazing experience and you can catch up on photos and the project statement on Otto's Selfpassage website: http://www.selfpassage.org



An excerpt from the curatorial statement:

"It has become commonplace to describe the world as shifting from an industrial mode to a network ), something we can also perceive in the fashion world. Namely, fashion has moved from a Paris-centered to a globally distributed system. This shift also influences the strategies of counter-culture movements as they change from dialectic strategies of opposition, subvertising and sabotage to engage in negotiations, social entrepreneurship and clever modulation of flows in everyday consumerism. This transformation can be compared to how heretic movements in opposition to the centralized Vatican interpretation of the Bible have moved from atheism and objections of faith to a liberation theology, using faith as a force for social change.
The “Hackers and Haute Couture Heretics” exhibition investigates how hacking, shopdropping, and craftivism are tactics used in the outskirts of fashion. The artists and designers taking part in the exhibition propose new ways of operating within the fashion system, reverse engineer the system in order to find ways to practically hack it. These artists and designers are not subverting fashion as much as subconstructing it, tuning it, and making its subroutines run in new ways..."


gallery view of counterfeiting crochet projects in progress


towards a handmade gucci bag, with images of burberry ipod cases to be made in the future...


me -n- Otto showing off our gucci counterfeits in progress...

I also went to the Istanbul Biennial and had a great time seeing the awesome art. Will report back more on this later. For now just wanted to say that I'm still alive and kicking! Goodbye summer, it was great having you around :)

Hang tight for new Anti-Factory inventory!