"UNBOUND": Women, Cloth and Clothing CTANZ Symposium #Suffrage125

This year, Unbound: Liberating Women; A Symposium, organised in partnership with the Costume, Textile Association of New Zealand (CTANZ), the School of Design and The Dunedin School of Art at Otago Polytechnic – Te Kura Matatini ki Otago, will be held in September, 21-23, 2018.

CTANZ is a national organisation that provides a forum for the study, research and conservation of dress and textiles. Established in 2002, this will be the 18^th national presentation of the symposium.

The exhibition, Unbound opens Friday 21^st September to launch Unbound: Liberating Women; A Symposium in the DSA Gallery, The Dunedin School of Art (evening is open to the public). The symposium will be held in The HUB and G Block on Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 September, 2018.

Unbound: Liberating Women, A Symposium

The 2018 symposium recognises New Zealand’s 125 years of women’s suffrage by exploring the relationships between women, cloth, and clothing.

Recognising 125 years of women’s suffrage in New Zealand, the 2018 Costume and Textile Association of New Zealand symposium Unbound: Liberating Women offers an opportunity to explore the past, present or future roles of dress and textiles in women’s suffrage and other liberating moments

How do cloth, clothes, fashion and art reveal, reflect or challenge social limits for women? In the spirit of the early suffragists, how might they empower futures and/or relate to feminist projects? How are they used to give or constrain political voice? When is cloth revolutionary?

Unbound: Liberating Women celebrates the power of cloth and clothes in the visual, material world and explores how women make and use these to transform and transcend boundaries. Speakers: Our keynote speakers are Jane Malthus and Nina Tonga.

> See here for programme of Unbound – presenters and papers 
> CTANZ symposium 2018 – provisional schedule subject to some rearrangement in sessions.

ALL WELCOME 

Unbound: the exhibition

21 September – 18 October, 2018.
Open:10am - 4pm, week days.
Dunedin School of Art Gallery,
Otago Polytechnic – Te Kura Matatini ki Otago,
Dunedin, New Zealand.
Special opening: Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 September, 9am-4pm.

OPENING NIGHT: 5:30pm to 8pm, Friday 21 September 2018.
The Dunedin School of Art Gallery, P Block, Otago Polytechnic, (Entrance off Riego Street).
Citizen Styled event by Professor Margo Barton (21 Sept.), 5:30pm onwards.
Artists; Professor Margo Barton, Anita DeSoto, Edwards + Johann, Steve Lovett, Michelle Mayn, Dylan McCutcheon-Peat with Simon Swale, Victoria McIntosh, Marie Strauss with Justin Spiers and Susan Videler.
Co-curated by Dr Natalie Smith and Victoria Bell.

Unbound: the exhibition is timed to coincide with Unbound: Liberating Women, A Symposium organised in partnership with the Costume and Textile Association of New Zealand (CTANZ), The School of Design and The Dunedin School of Art, at Otago Polytechnic –
Te Kura Matatini ki Otago, 21-22 September 2018. See: http://costumeandtextile.co.nz/symposium/

Pop-Up Market
Saturday 22nd September 10am-4pm. Student works for sale; clothing, textiles, jewellery, accessories, prints, design wares.