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Power Dressing
Vestoj’s contribution to the Palais de Tokyo festival ‘Do Disturb’ will explore how clothes emphasise certain roles in power structures (like the Palais de Tokyo itself), and what happens to our expectations of those roles when these signifiers are altered. With this in mind, we have examined the official and unofficial uniforms that the Palais de Tokyo staff wear, with particular emphasis on the guards’ uniforms. These uniforms specifically appear to both camouflage their wearers (by visitors largely ignoring their presence) but also to give the guards power to tell visitors what to do or not to do around the artworks. We want to look at the exercise of power on the guard that the imposition of the uniform represents. The uniform is a symbol of power (i.e. the guard’s power) but it’s also a reciprocal exercise of power over him. It puts us as museum visitors in our place but also holds him in his. He is a museum guard.
This is a Vestoj project by Anja Aronowsky Cronberg and David Myron.
Do Disturb will take place at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, April 10-12, 2015.
The Vestoj Storytelling Salon at MoMA PS1
The Vestoj Storytelling Salon, produced by Fondation Galeries Lafayette and hosted at MoMA PS1, brings together a handful of people who have shaped the New York fashion scene over the past five decades. Throughout the day, each participant tells a story directly affiliated with their life which are all connected through their common narrative based on material memories, and woven around or linked to a specific garment or object.
With Patricia Field, Pat Cleveland, Glenn O’Brien, Mary McFadden, Candy Pratts Price and Dapper Dan.