Counter colonial  and healing methodologies for fashion 3 session $100

MONTAGE OF MY TEXTILE WORK

• introduction- MEETING PEOPLE

• the body + positionality+ psycho somatics

  • (dandyism, bell hooks, with that stuff on exotics black feminists —-thinking feeling) body as a material and immaterial map (biology genetics seen and unseen)

• Surface textile/ material —words of protest

• Systems— ecological, emotional, bio psycho social , framing maybe Marianne williamson

Social organising is a part of nature

Your Guide. My spiritual affinity and love for clothes, modes of dress, and textile predates my physical existence. My maternal grandfather was an aṣọ òkè weaver as was his father and his father and my paternal grandfather was a tailor. My research on critical analysis and methodologies with textile, fashion, and dress as an academic started in 2010, as part of my BA Honours thesis research. Since then I have studied the intersections of antiblackness and antiAfricanness in fashion. Looking at how fashion shapes and reflects culture, worldview, and can exist as a world making medium.

My field research has taken me everywhere from the studio’s of luxury Nigerian fashion designers, and backstage at Lagos Fashion Design Week, to apprenticeships with immigrant African tailors, weaving schools in Iseyin and the studios of Adire dyers in Abeokuta. I wrote and published an essay on clothing and healing for The Funambulist in 2017, have been a commissioned writer for Style House Files— the developers of Lagos Fashion Week, and was a Judge for the State of Fashion Netherlands: Ways of Caring 2022

My personal creative work in fashion and dress has explored the connection between fashion and ontology (ways of being)—the critical importance of the who, the subject from a Yoruba spiritual perspective and from a geopolitical perspective. In my conceptual arts practice I have many years of experience exploring these themes through textile design, clothing making and weaving.

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