“The festival of disposable cloths”

A short description of a project The project is a result of three-months collective work of young designers' group and of the students from Architectural Academy. It's an album of disposable cloths' sketches. Actuality One of the main features of modern young man is his ability to live in a high rhythm of the time. This feature supposes free changes of his image. There are many different languages and cultures in a life of modern young man, which make him different with his contemporaries five or ten years ago. All these give a consideration about his image and habitat. The aim of the project The aim of the project is to show the view of young designer on problems of outward appearance and environment of persons of the same age. Date of realisation September 26, 2001.

The participants are:

• Timofey Bannikov – “Women workers of commercial sex”
• Anna Blohina– “Green people”
• Irina Vanidovskaya – “Mummies”
• Alina Demchenko – “A girl-soldier”
• Sergey Kishenin – “Shipy revolution”
• Julia Kostrzhanocskaya – “Hackers”
• Chingiz Madenov – “People - flowers”
• Nadya Moskalenko - “Hip - hoppers”
• Anna Petuhova – “Out of time”
• Natalya Solomonova – “Body - art”
• Alexander Stadnichuk , Ischak Hamraev – “0.0”
• Natalya Jurkova – “A man - mattress”

Curators group

A. Stadnichuk, A. Petuhova, J. Kostrzhanovskaya

Scenario

All visitors need some time, probably 30 minutes, to gather.

The beginning. Every visitor must be met and taken through the “dark, stuffy and very long strange pipe”*.

* The pipe is a prototype of collective disposable cloths;

* Imagine you are a leg and trousers are put on you every day.

The real aim of the “Pipe” object is to separate usual environment from the exposition space of the festival.

In a minute appears understanding nothing person – visitor but who is ready to play our game. He must be worn*. What for? If you enter the “disposable city” you must be in according with “disposable environment” and feel yourself like a participant.

* Cloths – paper coat and glasses with big choice of coloured lenses.

Then the participant turns out in a narrow room*, which is full of crumple magazines.

* One of prototypes of “disposable environment”, which is unreal.

The exit from the room is through the hole in the cellophane. Every participant will be met and explained how to move along the exposition, following the yellow roads with the pointers on the floor. Music background is a real sound of the city. These sounds you can hear from several places of exposition hall. Going by the direction after having a look at exposition, participants find the exit* and turn out at a banquet.

* There are big baskets on the exit. They are for used disposable cloths. .

In some time when everything is seen the guests will be invited out to see the demonstration of the last disposable suit.

The exposition was held only once. This fact completely confirms its disposability.

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