feminist theory, fashion theory, garment making, theatrical interventions, body art, performance art, conceptual art, installation art, video art, eco art, environmental issues, the organic movement
in person...pj harvey. kiki smith. andy goldsworthy. patty chang. julie facciani. darren holmes. anna livia. julie genser. steve savitz. ingrid schutz. moon mcneill. on myspace: other artists of all stripes.
pj harvey, beck, lena lovitch, mazzy star, katiejane garside, janis joplin, patti smith, the spitshine kid, leonard cohen, hank williams, arcade fire, the handsome family, edith frost, devendra banhart, john whitney, neutral milk hotel, dr. dog, okkervil river, jomi massage, the sex pistols, iggy pop, jimi hendrix, the reflecting skin, where everything falls out
the crying game, me and you and everyone we know, dirty pretty things, sid and nancy, slingblade, traffick, meshes of the afternoon, apocalypse now, the swimming pool, in the bedroom, memento, glen garry glen ross, the spanish prisoner, monster, girl interrupted, u-turn, fight club, the grifters, the royal tannenbaums, elizabeth, feeling minnesota, being john malkovich, mystic river, breaking the waves, rushmore, lost in translation, the dreamers, bicycle thief, the grand illusion, that obscure object of desire, un chien andalou, the seven samurai, shallow hal, la strada, last year at marienbad, serene velocity
prison break. real time. project runway. the three stooges.
"The Fashioned Body", "Over Her Dead Body", "The Hysterical Male", "Radical Fashion", "Fashion at the Edge", Extreme Beauty", "The Subversive Stitch". Anything by Luce Iragaray. currently reading a book called, "Techno Fashion"...all about conceptual innovations in fashion fueled by technological advances. wowee photos. weird intersections of body and materials...one of my fave subjects.
Elaine Scarry (writer: The Body in Pain: The making and unmaking of the World), Lucy Orta (clothing that looks like survival gear), Janine Antoni (pre-eminent conceptual/performance artist), Ana Mendieta (Cuban body/performance artist), Andy Goldsworthy, Stephen Bottoms, Eve Sussman, Bill Viola. Designers: Junya Watanabe/Comme des Garcons, Hussein Chalayan, Rei Kawakubo, Yohji Yamamoto, Alexander McQueen, Olivier Theyskens, Nick Cave (the Chicago designer). Joan Livingstone, Anne Wilson, Bonnie Klehr, (fiber artists with a conceptual edge). Artist/curators: Susan Sensemann, John Brunetti, Martha Wilson of Franklin Furnace Archive (Brooklyn, NY).