Dress as autogenic process
— Design, Fabrication and Photography in collaboration with Adam Hollings
Dress as autogenic process represents a game of infinite play where two variations of 2D components act as set of instructions that guide the development of the form, establishing its geometry and performance.
While the dress follows a fluid system of relational logics with set parameters, the project challenges the separation between structure and ornament; it instead becomes, as David Ruy mentions in Autogenic Structures, an “internally generated feature essential to the expression of the whole.” Variations in the garment owe themselves to operational techniques which involve the internal reconfiguration (mirroring, rotating, progressively multiplying) of components around control points, resulting in controlled chance or a kind of “autogenic succession”. Pieces around the neck and torso can be unscrewed via the connections (Chicago screws) and then screwed back into place when worn.
“Though systems of measure are exploited to the fullest, the targeted outcomes are nothing that can be easily measured, nothing that can have a number attached.” — David Ruy, Autogenic Structures
