My final 3rd year collection New Delusion is an anti-Bauhaus, anti-authoritarian irreverent response to the early 20th century teachings of the Bauhaus. I continue the decadent and mutinous line of enquiry started by Isa Genzken specifically in ‘Fuck the Bauhaus’, viewed through the shifting subconscious landscape of surrealism and a rebellion against a fixity of definition of any single human or non-human, inspired by Astrida Neimanis’ posthuman feminist phenomenological understanding of water.
The conceptual foundation for my body worn objects is one in which the body is rendered featureless and anonymous while sharing and intersecting the same space as the body worn object, to exemplify the fragility of boundaries and demonstrate a diffractive understanding of fashion and art.
The creation and execution of my collection was about exploring meaning and meaninglessness simultaneously, grappling with didactic modernist thought and its relationship to my developing postmodern/posthuman practice.