presentation:

Drinks at Dusk

with Conny Groenewegen

21 Oct 2021

At Dutch Design Week, we have daily presentations by various artists at sundown. In this edition we talk about how we can embody and feel more like other species through fashion with fashion designer Conny Groenewegen.

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Drinks at Dusk with Conny Groenewegen - At Dutch Design Week, we have daily presentations by various artists at sundown. In this edition we talk about how we can embody and feel more like other species through fashion with fashion designer  Conny Groenewegen. Caroline Aravicius, Conny Groenewegen, Anne Hofstra

Conny Groenewegen

Conny Groenewegen zooms in on the issues associated with industrial production and labor processes.Her research traces back to the origins of methods: revealing and re-establishing the sparkle of manufacturing before the fashionable took its toll. She sheds a new light on production, whilst searching for what is essential and appropriate for organizations and brands. She does so by taking away barriers, preparing reinvigorated procedures for the next step, ready to interact with the world.

After completing a study in fashion and visual art, Conny Groenewegen started making drawings. Her area of expertise is knitting. She mostly creates material using rows of interlocking loops from one continuous thread. All loops are essential; if one breaks, it creates a hole. She considers this as symbolic of interpersonal relationships: you cannot impose or force anything without causing damage. Similarly, she enters into collaborations in which she challenges and is likewise challenged. The Fashion Machine project has arisen from this philosophy and from her confrontation with fashion’s volatility and high turn-around speed.

Information

Inhuman Carnaval at Dutch Design Week
Drinks At Dusk
18th-22d of October 2021, 18:30-19:00
Natlab, Eindhoven

Free entrance