There are two interventions coming in the next two weeks:
- The unaverage average with Neelabh
This collaboration came through because I reached out to Neelabh to ask him his opinion on my project, since he owns a fashion studio and he makes clothes for his clients, and so, he has experience dealing with standardised clothes. I explained to him were my ideas have came through and told him I had a vision of obtaining peoples silloutes to then play with that information and create some sort of visualisation of the unaverage average. His project is related to AI and the creation of identity and he was very ken on exploring an intervention that could help us both. In that sense, our intervention is going to be held tomorrow ( Wednesday) at The Street and we are going to be for 4 hours taking pictures of people who willingly want to be part of our intervention.
- Posture Workshop at Latin American House
Exploring my ideas with my tutor, Elizabeth, we came upon some important realisations during the tutorial of the 09 of October.
We started discussing about how the problem about stadarization and the use of the average borns also from the need of an industrial production in a globalised world, and how instead making clothes that fit people, it becomes a matter of a judgemental perception of bodies. The measurements come imposed into an entire population.
Brainstorming in ideas of how to create an intervention that could help me fill gaps in my research in these few weeks left, I mentioned that in my search for stakeholders and communities I can enhance a conversation, and also for personal reasons, I started volunteering into an organisation called Latin American House, which is a hub for the lit American community in London, where they make several activities designed for these community and their needs. We both found this organisation as a perfect opportunity to make an intervention, especially since Ive got a bit of liberty to propose activities and workshop. As we were talking she mentioned the possibility of joining a repair cafe and helping people modify cloths so they can fit them perfectly to their bodies, bringing the agency back to the people. Analysing that possibility, I said to her that I didn’t want it to become only about the clothes, I wanted to make it about the perception of the bodies and the average. She was quite confrontational and asked me, so, how do you perceive your own body and why? This lead to a conversation bout how coming to London confronted me to being very different to everyone else and how I sometimes felt short. So, Elizabeth suggested making a workshop or activity were we could work with the people that go to the LAH , which are normally migrants, on how to walk with confidence and perceive the space with confidence.
And so, that’s my next intervention that is going to be the next Thursday at 3:oopm when a group of people go to LAH to do any activity that is being suggested by the organization. It’s during a space called Thursdays in community.
I’ve looked for help with Beatriz, a student of MACCC, since she has a background on theatre.