Self-fashioning: Deconstructivist Approach and Post-Gender Curatorial Practices in the World of Fashion

Site of Resistance: Beyond the genders, Beyond the Museums

CONCLUSION

In my exploratory experience on the deconstructivist and posthuman fashion, I believe that combining an affective approach and an embodied practice would really elevate a new posthuman subjectivity. An embodied practice as previously discussed would incorporate various components of embodied agencies through posture, mannequin choices, movements and collective engagement. Setting new curatorial posthuman critical approaches is also touching upon how self-styling can be understood in interconnectedness with multiple others rather than at the individual level of self-fashioning for the sake of anthropocentric normativity.

It would certainly have been interesting to generate a more socio-political stance toward fashion exhibits.  In an eminent exploratory experience in fashion, it would be relevant to include more about the notions of the interplay between the materiality of clothing and the techno-mediated society in which posthuman subjectivity is framed. Also, developing the concept of male subjective oppression could be another angle to discuss how the lack of scholarly documented texts in fashion exhibits serve as a site of the agency. By site of the agency, I mean the non-verbal and the return to an embodied fashion practice. 
 

Fashion certainly comprises a lot of unanswered questions concerning the gender gaps within curatorial and representative methodologies. 

I will leave you on Judith Butler's reflection on performativity which is also essential to the posthuman self-styling potential...

 

What performance where will invert the inner/outer distinction and compel a radical rethinking of the psychological presuppositions of gender identity and sexuality?

 What performance where will compel a reconsideration of the place and
stability of the masculine and the feminine?

And what kind of gender performance will enact and reveal the performativity of gender itself in a way that destabilizes the naturalized categories of identity and desire.

Judith Butler ((1), p.177)

 

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