Fabrication
fermented tea bacteria textile, tailoring, ivory buttons, and light box
with reclaimed wood.
50" X 30"
Film credits: Costume/Director: Lauren Osmond
Dancer: Kim Fleury Bertrand
Music: Donovan Seidle
Video: Josh Flynn
fermented tea bacteria textile, tailoring, ivory buttons, and light box
with reclaimed wood.
50" X 30"
Film credits: Costume/Director: Lauren Osmond
Dancer: Kim Fleury Bertrand
Music: Donovan Seidle
Video: Josh Flynn
Lauren Osmond
Fabrication is a textile and dance performance filmed in a historic, empty swimming pool. A dancer manipulates her costume grown and tailored out of fermented-tea bacteria. This textile decays when it encounters moisture; it showcases the stresses of/on the body by reacting to the dancer’s sweat and to the tension and frictions her body imposes on it. Moving amongst her empty container, the dancer stirs in her second skin, while she questions her consumer body, her performed identity, and how to develop further once everything has
been drained. I experiment with traditional garment construction. The pieces that result from this interdisciplinary repurposing of fashion design engage with the investigation of the body both aesthetically and spatially. I look at the body and its relations while in motion and how that informs continuous adaptations of identity. Having a background in fashion design, I lean toward the theatrical and figurative qualities of garments and textiles. A narrative of future forms of living and decay ensues from it, materializing as garments, weavings, gardening, dying, and printing www.laurenosmond.com |