[Veranstaltung] FILM SCREENING & ARTIST TALK Allan Brown / The Nettle Dress MI 6.11.2024 18:00 AUDITORIUM / EG / VZA7
Liebe Studierende, liebe Kolleg*innen,
Ich lade euch herzlich zum FILM SCREENING & ARTIST TALK mit ALLAN BROWN
am Mittwoch, den 6.11.2024 um 18.00 Uhr im Auditorium der VZA7 ein.
Einlass ist bereits um 17.30 Uhr.
Ich freue mich, Euch zu sehen!
Liebe Grüße,
Karin Altmann
EINLADUNG:
THE NETTLE DRESS
Allan Brown (UK)
Film Screening and Artist Talk
6. November 2024, 18:00
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
Auditorium
Vordere Zollamtstraße 7, EG
1030 Wien
Textile Artist Allan Brown spent seven years making a dress by hand, using only the fibre of locally foraged stinging nettles.
This is ‘hedgerow couture’, the greenest of slow fashion and also his medicine. It’s how he survives the death of his wife,
which leaves him and their four children bereft, and how he finds a beautiful way to honour her.
A modern-day fairy tale and hymn to the healing power of nature, slow craft and textiles.
His journey and process of creating the dress is being featured in THE NETTLE DRESS,
a documentary by Dylan Howitt (68 minutes/English with German subtitles)
and discussed in the following Artist Talk with Allan Brown,
hosted by Karin Altmann (Department Textiles - Free, Applied and Experimental Artistic Design).
This event is part of the INTRA project SPINNING STORIES - LIVING ARCHIVES at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Contact:
Mag. art. Dr. phil. Karin Altmann
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Institute of Art Sciences and Art Education
Textiles – Free, Applied and Experimental Artistic Design
karin.altmann[at]uni-ak.ac.at