Research Symposium: Opening up the Fashion Archive

Program Schedule

Join us between Wednesday, March 11 – Thursday, March 12 for the following opening events and themed sessions:

Day 1 – Wednesday, March 11

Location: UTS Gallery, Building 6, Level 4

9.30–10.00am

Acknowledgement of Country and Symposium Reception

10.00am–11.00am

Floor talk and an index of wearing and reading fashion archives publication launch + Q&A with No place for mannequins: Remaking the fashion archive exhibition curators Dr Todd Robinson (UTS) and Dr Ricarda Bigolin (RMIT)

Location: DAB Research Seminar Space, Building 6, Level 6, Room 06.06.038

11.30-1.00pm

Session 1 | Practice and Preservation: Material and Intangible Histories

Chair: Dr Jesse Stein, UTS

Presenters:

• Dr Ailsa Weaver, independent researcher: Buried in Sunshine: Practice and the Leigh Bowery Archive
• Dr Laura Gardener, RMIT: Intangible and Tangible Histories in the Brand Archive
• Frances Harvey, UTS: Absence in the Archive: Unearthing 19th Century Burial Clothing in British Museum Collections

Location: Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Fashion + Textiles, Building 6, Level 6

Parallel Session 1 | Design, Culture, and Consumer Practices for Sustainable Futures | Hosted by the Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Fashion + Textiles*

*Limited spaces

Chair: Dr Lisa Lake, UTS Director, Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Fashion + Textiles

Presenters:

• Dr Angelina Russo, Founder and CEO, Fleurieu Made: Product Passports as Participatory Fashion Archives: Transforming Regulatory Compliance into Consumer-Led Knowledge Production
• Nicole Crouch, UNSW: Decolonising Commercial Textile Print Design Style Categories

Location: UTS Gallery, Building 6, Level 4

1.00-2.00pm

Lunch + UTS Gallery performance | S!X Guignol: The Doll’s Wardrobe**

**Free admission, all welcome

Presenters:

• Dr Denise Sprynskyj & Dr Peter Boyd, School of Fashion and Textiles, RMIT

Location: DAB Research Seminar Space, Building 6, Level 6, Room 06.06.038

2.00-3.30pm

Session 2 | Archiving the Digital

Chair: Dr Andrew Burrell, UTS

Presenters:

• Dr Suneel Jethani, UTS: Building wearable technology archives with expanded metadata
• Karl Björn Edvard Eriksson, UTS: Archival Hallucinations
• Martina Ponzoni: d_archive

Location: DAB Research Seminar Space, Building 6, Level 6, Room 06.06.038

4.00-5.30pm

Session 3 | Curating Fashion, Dress Collections and Archives | Guest Powerhouse Panel

Convenor: Roger Leong, Senior Curator, Powerhouse Museum

Speakers:

• Alexandra Barter, PhD Candidate, UTS
• Glynis Jones, Curator, Powerhouse Museum
• Margot Riley, Curator, State Library of New South Wales

Location: DAB Research Seminar Space, Building 6, Level 6, Room 06.06.038

5.30-6.30pm: Refreshments

6.30-8.30pm: International Zoom sessions

Parallel Zoom Session 1 | Remaking Archives: IMAGE BODY TEXT

Chair: Dr Laura Gardner, RMIT

Presenters:

• Martina Alia Mascia, XEROXED, Università Iuav di Venezia: Wearing the Archive: Practice-Based Approaches to Archival Research through the XEROXED Expanded Edition 00
• Anna Baumgart, artist and independent researcher: The Wearing of Images
• Sally Bjerre Gaarde, Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås, Sweden: Interlacing the Collection: On Referencing Fashion Heritage through Stitch
• Carlo Chiusi and Federica Forti, Università Iuav di Venezia: Digital Twins and Atmospheric Bodies: New Sensory Scenarios for Archives, Museums, and Fashion Retail   

Parallel Zoom Session 2 | Living Archives, Making and Feeling: Feminist, Ecological, Heritage and Decolonial Practices

Chair: Dr Remie Cibis, RMIT

Presenters:

• Dr Clizia Moradei and Alessandra Vaccari, Università Iuav di Venezia: A-Live Archive: What Becomes of a Garment’s Life?
• Hanka van der Voet, RMIT/ArtEZ: All Work is Women’s Work
• Wonne Scrayen, 1 Granary writer and independent researcher: Palpable papers

Day 2: Thursday, March 12

Location: UTS Gallery + Courtyard, Building 6, Level 4

10.00–11.30am

Session 1 | Practices of Noticing: Archiving Waste, concealment and representations of self

Presenters: 

• Dr Rachael Cassar, UTS: Caching Material Culture; concealment and archival narratives
• Chantal Kirby, RMIT: Gleaning Practice: Exploring Archives Fashion Waste
• Remie Cibis, RMIT: The Radical Power of Wearing: From Passive Reception to Embodied Refashioning

Location: Building 6, Level 6, 6.77 Sewing Studios

Parallel Session | Patternmaking Workshop***

***Limited spaces

• Alessandra Varisco, Università Iuav di Venezia: How to Counter-Archive a Paper Pattern? An Intuitive Pattern Making Approach to the Fashion Archive

Location: DAB Research Seminar Space, Building 6, Level 6, Room 06.06.038

12.00–1.30pm

Session 2 | Making and Remaking: Archives, Craft, and Fashion Futures

Chair: Dr Rachael Cassar, UTS

Presenters:

• Dr Cecilia Heffer, UTS: Singing Lace: Sonification of a Fashion Archive / Reimagining Lost Identities
• Mandy Nichols, RMIT: Take Two: Archival Garments, Costume, and Film as a Production Site in Contemporary Fashion Practice
• Roger Tait, independent researcher: Moulding the bodice: The Knack and the Know-How A study of 201 years of tailoring methods

Location: DAB Research Seminar Space, Building 6, Level 6, Room 06.06.038 

2.30–4.00pm

Session 3 | Challenging the Archive: Rethinking Fashion Collections

Chair: Dr Karena de Perthuis, Western Sydney University

Presenters:

• Dr Maria Quirk, Curator, Collections and Research, and Charlotte Botica, Assistant Curator, Fashion and Textiles, National Gallery of Victoria: Fashion beyond the Garment: Re-Shaping NGV Fashion Archive
• Dr Laini Burton, Griffith University: An Anarchival Challenge to First Nations Masks within the Fashion Archive
• Kathryn Hunyor, UTS: A Unique Model: How the Kyoto Costume Institute breaks the archive mould

4.00–5.00pm: Symposium Wrap-up