Revelation Through Concealment

Choat, AP

Revelation Through Concealment

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Publisher:: Aalto University
Publication Type:: Exhibition
Citation:: Critical Costume 2015, New Costume Practices and Performances

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dc.contributor.author	Choat, AP https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5155-0545	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Pantouvaki, S	en_US
dc.date	2015-03-25	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Critical Costume 2015, New Costume Practices and Performances	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-952-60-6131-3	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/43210
dc.description.abstract	Revelation through Concealment is the culmination of several projects that investigate fields of vision, concealment of the body and perception. The haunting and uncanny feelings experienced in the presence of a shrouded or concealed body, divorced from the known parameters of bodily representation, signify death in a similar way to a historical garment in a museum. Revelation through Concealment is multidisciplinary work located within the blurry parameters of conceptual fashion design, categorized as a collage on the body. It is an exploration of vision, the power of sight and how to be perceived by others’ representations and consumption. This research project’s title, Revelation through Concealment, is derived from a quote by art critic David Bourdon’s description of Christo and Jeanne Claude’s artistic practice involving the wrapping of monuments and landscapes in fabrics as a ‘revelation through concealment’ (1970), thereby revealing the form and shape of the object in the draped cloth and creating a new surface.	en_US
dc.format	Digitally Printed Leather Masks, Digitally Printed Textile Garments	en_US
dc.publisher	Aalto University	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Critical Costume 2015, New Costume Practices and Performances	en_US
dc.title	Revelation Through Concealment	en_US
dc.type	Exhibition
utslib.location	Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki, Finland	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.consider-herdc	false	en_US
pubs.finish-date	2015-03-27	en_US
pubs.place-of-publication	Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki, Finland	en_US
pubs.start-date	2015-03-25	en_US
pubs.rights-statement	Research Background This exhibition is in the field of fashion and art practice and is an extension of the performance Reveal / Conceal that was held on opening night July 7th 2014. The exhibition is influenced by many conceptual fashion practitioners such as Martin Margiela, Shelley Fox who presents the garment within a gallery as an artefact worthy of contemplation. The work exhibited in looks on mannequins, investigates the face as a political and charged site, when covered affects the reception of this body by the onlooker and is an unnerving experience. . How does this effect the viewer and how is the space changed by showing a happening that had occured there? Research Contribution The creation of the work opened up ideas around the boundary between fashion and art practices through the context for presentation of this work. The placement of the garments and masks and other objects within the space created a renewed outlook on the fashion garment as within a context of meaning in relation to costume, the blurry boundary between fashion and costume. Research Significance The exhibition has been written up and presented in a published conference paper for International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes 17th annual conference 2015, held in Florence Itally, entitled "Fetishisation of the Image: The Ugly Beautiful Paradigm." This performance took place on the opening night of the two week exhibition of the work at Carlton Gallery and was published in free publication MX magazine, Inner West Courier and Weekend Note among others.	en_US

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Revelation through Concealment is the culmination of several projects that investigate fields of vision, concealment of the body and perception. The haunting and uncanny feelings experienced in the presence of a shrouded or concealed body, divorced from the known parameters of bodily representation, signify death in a similar way to a historical garment in a museum. Revelation through Concealment is multidisciplinary work located within the blurry parameters of conceptual fashion design, categorized as a collage on the body. It is an exploration of vision, the power of sight and how to be perceived by others’ representations and consumption. This research project’s title, Revelation through Concealment, is derived from a quote by art critic David Bourdon’s description of Christo and Jeanne Claude’s artistic practice involving the wrapping of monuments and landscapes in fabrics as a ‘revelation through concealment’ (1970), thereby revealing the form and shape of the object in the draped cloth and creating a new surface.

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