New Fashion Narratives: Residency Week

New Fashion Narratives is an initiative of FASHIONCLASH, organized in the context of the FASHIONCLASH Festival 2023 exhibition program (17-19 November 2023). For the upcoming edition, five fashion practitioners are invited by FASHIONCLASH to collaborate on the development of the co-curatorial concept for a multimedia exhibition program that will be presented at Bureau Europa in Maastricht.

FASHIONCLASH invited Enzo Aitkaci, Chinouk Filique, Jonathan Ho, Lotte de Jager and Boris Kollar to develop a multimedia presentation concept for the exhibition program component of the festival. They first met during a physical Residency Week (18-22 April 2023) in Maastricht, where they got to know each other and worked on developing the concept and documenting the process. The program consisted of a visit to Bureau Europa, expert meetings with Frédérique Albert of Random Studio and Linda Valkeman of The Or Foundation, work sessions and inspiring walks & talks through the city of Maastricht.

With this project FASHIONCLASH aims to:

  • Explore new fashion presentation forms within a (fashion) festival framework and a potential role of a fashion platform in the future;

  • Explore what the current/new fashion narratives are and can be;

  • Explore alternative ways to create programs with targeted impact for both awareness and innovation of the discipline;

  • Explore how we can create a polyphonic exhibition program in which different stories, perspectives and working methods of the current generation of designers and artists are given a stage;

  • Provide an open and experimental space to a group of fashion practitioners, giving them the opportunity to broaden their artistic-, practice-, curatorial and collaborative skills;

  • Create a community of practice to share knowledge, perspectives and vision on how to contribute to a better and (fashion) world.

New Fashion Narratives has been a permanent part of the FASHIONCLASH activity program for a number of years and has always been presented in the form of an exhibition during the annual FASHIONCLASH Festival in Maastricht. Take a look at the previous edition on our YouTube channel.

Special thanks to: Green Elephant Hostels, Bureau Europa and Centre Céramique for their hospitality!

Jessie Beurskens