This free talk was held at ACMI on 17 July 2013 to celebrate two exhibitions, ACMI’s ‘Hollywood Costume’ and RMIT University Design Hub’s ‘Walter Van Beirendonck; Dream the World Awake’.
Chris Dercon, director of London’s Tate Modern, and Kaat Debo, director/curator at Mode Museum in Antwerp, discussed the particulars of exhibiting fashion and costume, and explored the dialogue between art and fashion.
They investigated the ways a curator can animate clothes through multisensory and multimedia experiences, Dercon and Debo looked at the approaches taken by curators, identifying interesting narratives for exhibiting garments and took the audience behind-the-seams of fashion and costume exhibiting.
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In ACMI's collection
Previously on display
22 April 2019
ACMI Viewing Booths
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
B2002881
Language
English
Audience classification
Mediatheque - all ages (ACMI classified)
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Costume design
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Costume design - Motion pictures
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Costume designers
Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels
Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels → Archival materials
Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels → Interviews
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art museums
Crafts & Visual Arts → Costume design
Crafts & Visual Arts → Costume design - exhibitions
Crafts & Visual Arts → Costume designers
Crafts & Visual Arts → Museum curators
Crafts & Visual Arts → Museum techniques
Crafts & Visual Arts → Museum techniques - exhibitions
Music & Performing Arts → Costume
Music & Performing Arts → Costume design
Music & Performing Arts → Costume designers
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
DVCAM; Master
DVD; Back-up
DVD; Access Print (Section 1)
MOV file H264; ACMI Digital Access Copy - presentation
DVCAM; Sub-master
MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI External Digital Access Copy