The Sense Lab presents: Slow Clothes :: a performance installation event :: Sunday May 25 2008 :: 2-5 pm :: 1197 St. Laurent :: Société des arts technologiques, Art & D :: Montreal, Canada

Slow Clothes is a performance installation, a movement experiment, a fabric collection and an experience of tactility. It is a participatory event: people are invited to compose with fabric, to dress themselves, to move through the space, to eat and drink, to create mobile environmental platforms.

Slow Clothes is based on a fabric collection entitled Folds to Infinity. Fold to Infinity is composed of cut and serged pieces of infinitely connectable fabric (connectable through magnets, buttons, hooks, buttonholes, snaps).

The design of Folds to Infinity challenges:

1. the idea that clothing fits a pre-defined shape;

2. that clothing design must be modular with pieces patterned for standard assembly;

3. that clothing relates primarily to the individual body rather than relating the individual body to those around it and to their shared environment.

The complex connectivity and the relational environment of Slow Clothes transforms fashion from a passive fitting to an active composition.

Concept and Collection: Erin Manning

Mobile Architecture: Erin Manning, Jon Yu

Lighting: Troy Rhoades

Thanks to: The Sense Lab, Art & D