ROAM
artist jen southern developed this project, ROAM which was part of the wear-me exhibit at the magna science center in the UK. the project takes snapshots of the landscape of a chosen participant’s video game travels and prints the results on fabric. the resulting garment is a means of recording journeys, of revealing lived experience on the body.
funny thing - while in berlin i was watching german MTV - and in this “classic hits of the 80’s” type of program they aired a video by Nic Kershaw, titled “wouldn’t it be good” from the album: Human Racing. (or so i think - i scrawled down the info - but not even i can read my own handwriting these days.) anyway - horrible song, horrible video, horribly dated - but what caught my attention was that the featured singer (nic kershaw) had his entire garment rotoscoped so that though every other part of the video was normal video footage, nic’s suit was animated with televised thoughts and dreams of its own. it reminded me of jen’s project - as the garment became a means of indicating the inner life of the person wearing it… this all reminds me that the body reveals more that we can afford or understand to say verbally - that the impressions and delinations created in our clothes are imprints of experience.