Haute Couture Hacker And Fashion Rebel: Coming Soon

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Haute couture hacker and fashion rebel: coming soon


Swedish haute couture heretic, fashion renegade and DIY-demagogue, Otto von

Busch, is coming to Melbourne.


The fashion theorist and designer will give a free public lecture at RMIT

University’s Brunswick campus on Wednesday, 22 April.


With a doctorate in critical fashion design from Sweden’s Goteborg University, von

Busch is an artist and activist who explores ways to hack the operating system of

fashion.


His hands-on projects look at how participatory practices can render fashion

inclusive, yet still exclusive, and he draws on the practice and tactics of hacking,

fan fiction, liberation theology and development practice in his work.


von Busch sees these means as sharing an approach that can liberate the mythical

energy in fashion – hacking the flows of the fashion operating system, but keeping

the power on.


Recycling becomes upcycling and fashioning becomes upfashioning.


In his public lecture, Becoming Fashionable: Hacktivism and Engaged Fashion

Design, von Busch will explore how the intensities of fashion can be reverse-

engineered, hacked, tuned and shared among many participants as a form of

social activism and sustainability, from community workshops to collaborations with

the fashion industry.


What: Free Public Lecture by Otto von Busch, “Becoming Fashionable: Hacktivism

and Engaged Fashion Design”


When: Wednesday, 22 April, 6pm


Where: Auditorium, Level 2, Building 514

RMIT University Brunswick campus, 25 Dawson Street, Brunswick


RSVP: By Thursday, 9 April, to kerry.bromley@rmit.edu.au


For more information or to arrange interviews with Otto von Busch: 

RMIT University School of Fashion and Textiles, Patricia Brien, (03) 9925

9243 or 0488 583 039.


6 April, 2009   






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