Elisa
Van
Joolen
EXHIBITIONS
The Future of Fashion is Now
Wednesday 28.10.2015 - Sunday 28.02.2016
OCAT - Contemporary Art Terminal
Shanghai
Design Week
Tuesday 03.11.2015 till Sunday 07.11.2015
Rio de Janeiro
Fast Fashion
Friday 04.12.2016 till Sunday 03.07.2016
Deutsche Hygiene-Museum
Dresden
Domestic Affairs
UABB Architecture Biennale 2015
Friday 04.12.2015 till Sunday 28.02.2016
Dacheng Flour Factory
Shenzhen
Art & Design Biennale
Sunday 10.01.2016 - Tuesday 15.03.2016
West Bund Art Center
Shanghai
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The 11"x17" Reader is selected as one of the best Dutch book designs, 2014.
EXHIBITION
Saturday 05.09.2015 till Thursday 15.10.2015
Stedelijk Museum
Amsterdam
11″x17″ is an ongoing project, initiated by Elisa van Joolen, that examines and challenges the fashion industry’s prevailing value systems and proposes new methods of production.
The project began in 2013 with a series of conversations with representatives of various fashion brands including G-Star, O’Neill, gsus sindustries, Rockwell by Parra, Converse, moniquevanheist, and Nike. These companies then contributed by donating clothing and footwear in the form of samples, archival pieces and stock. A selection of these, complemented with pieces of second-hand and no-brand clothing have undergone a process of cutting out and reconstructing to become 11″x17″ Sweaters and Invert Footwear.
11″x17″ creates a network. It unites different categories of clothing and different values within fashion; an eclectic mixture of mid-market, second-hand, and high-end items.
In conversation with New Ancestors NYC.
New Material Award 2014
EXHIBITION
Thursday 20.11.2014 till Monday 05.01.2015
Het Nieuwe Instituut
Rotterdam
Elisa (NL / IT) is an artist, designer and researcher based in Amsterdam.
Her approach to clothing design is characterised by strategies of intervention and reconfiguration. Her projects often reflect specific social contexts and emphasise collaboration and participation. They expose relational aspects of clothing and subvert processes of value production.
She teaches at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.
The Banality Of Cut And Paste
by Lynn Berger
Picasso did it, Dada did it, and Marcel Duchamp did it, too. James Joyce and T.S. Eliot were famous for it. Hip-Hop artists do it, of course; it’s through them that we first thought to label such practices not just “appropriation”, “quotation”, or “collage”, but “sampling” and “remix” as well. Whatever you call it, though, the basic underlying method is that of the cut-and-paste – and Elisa van Joolen does it, too.
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WEBSITE DESIGN
Jakub Straka
TEXTS
Lynn Berger and Ruby Hoette
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Our Polite Society
MANY THANKS !
Alexander Rommens (Rockwell by Parra), Alexandra Landré, Anna van Joolen – Marchesini, Anne Stooker, Bart Jan Polman, Daan Meijer (O’Neill), Eelco de Koning (Nike), Emma Hoette, Elisabeth Vulsma, Femke de Vries, Jakub Straka, Jan Schoon, Joanna Janczak, Johanna Muszbek, Joke Robaard, José Teunissen, Jens Schildt, Laura Grimm, Lynn Berger, Manon Schaap, Martijn den Boer, Matthias Kreutzer, Martijn Schmidt (Clarks), Monique van Heist, Nalden, Pascale Gatzen, Remco van der Velden (Ontour), Ruby Hoette, Simon Wrainwright (Converse), Sheilah van Sisseren, Suzanne de Jong (G-Star), Tessa Schön (gsus sindustries), Vincent Vulsma, Wichard Slootheer (Won Hundred)
11”x17” is made possible through the financial support of Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Stichting Stokroos and Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie.
