Colette

Lecture: Monday, September 19
Workshop: September 19 - 23

With the intention of blurring the distinction between art and life, Colette has also selected unorthodox art spaces to create her fantasy installations: the streets, shop windows, her own home, boutiques, clubs, restaurants, warehouses, etc. The artist’s fashion interventions include designing the Deadly Feminine Line for Fiorucci (1979), sets and costumes for the Berlin Opera (1985) and, currently the transformation of an entire floor of a Tokyo store into the ultimate woman’s shopping fantasy “The Bedroom” for HPGRP- building Ginza (2004), a pink satin environment with her new fashion line set amongst her paintings and light sculptures.

Switching Idioms

"Central to my work often referred to as "Gusemptkunstwerk" is the idea of multiplying mediums. Switching from photography to paintings to video to performance to sculpture to installing work and often incorporating and including fashion and sound and even smell occasionally." In this workshop, participants will experiment in transferring the message of their work into another medium foreign to their use- almost as in a game or as in a situation of necessity where one needs to create and is limited or forced to discover another medium. Various materials will be used and discussed.

Call for workshop application at 424 5050, or download online
Scholarships available.