With Ricarda Bigolin & Adele Varcoe
Need a new head? Then these free workshops are for you! Over the course of the State of Design Festival, designers Adele Varcoe and Ricarda Bigolin will run a series of four workshops at Craft Victoria giving participants the opportunity to replace their head with a new one. The workshops will form part of a bigger program of events scheduled throughout June and July in Craft Victoria's Gallery 3.
Each workshop is based around a generic everyday item – Jumper, Chair, Bread and Pen – that the designers invite participants to hack, play and transform into something that will work wonders for their mojo or enhance their personality! How could a head made from a chair be used by other people? Or could a head made from bread be used for breakfast? Will a head made from pen make you want to write more? The workshops will explore the way we interact with objects; the way that design can 'move' us to extremes.
Participants taking part in the workshops will make a head in one of these materials, and perform a series of tasks with their head. The workshops run for approximately 4 hours each and each participant will be encouraged to exhibit their new head for the duration of the Festival in Gallery 3 at Craft Victoria. The designers hope to accumulate a collection of heads throughout the Festival so if you can't make a workshop please come down and introduce yourself.
Note: participants must bring some of their own materials to the workshop.
Workshop 1: JUMPER - BOOKED OUT, SORRY!
Date: Wednesday 20 July, 12-4pm
Venue: Craft Victoria, 31 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Bookings: Essential on 03 9650 7775. Places are limited to 10 per workshop.
Cost: FREE
Materials to bring: jumpers, needle, threads, tape, paint
Workshop 2: CHAIR - Filling fast!
Date: Saturday 23 July, 12-4pm
Venue: Craft Victoria, 31 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Bookings: Essential on 03 9650 7775. Places are limited to 10 per workshop.
Cost: FREE
Materials to bring: chair, hammer, nails, glue, tape
Workshop 3: PEN - Filling fast!
Date: Wednesday 27 July, 12-4pm
Venue: Craft Victoria, 31 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Bookings: Essential on 03 9650 7775. Places are limited to 10 per workshop.
Cost: FREE
Materials to bring: pens, tape, wire
Workshop 4: BREAD - Filling fast!
Date: Thursday 28 July, 12-4pm
Venue: Craft Victoria, 31 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Bookings: Essential on 03 9650 7775. Places are limited to 10 per workshop.
Cost: FREE
Materials to bring: loaves of bread, flour, water, butter, jam
Presenters:
Ricarda Bigolin
Ricarda Bigolin is a research based fashion designer currently undertaking a PhD, and combining with her practice studio teaching in the Fashion Program at RMIT University. Examining modes and ways to express a fashion outcome, her practice critically questions the way fashion is made and how it is communicated via fashion products/experiences. Research is concerned with uncovering the role of the fashion designer in terms of the major attributes of the creative cycle and exploring how this role might be expanded. Current projects use collaborations with technicians, art and design practitioners to provoke diverse exchanges and transfers of fashion design knowledge.
Adele Varcoe
Adele Varcoe is a newfangled fashion designer who can be found making things and modifying skins in her traveling Tent. Her most recent project: iFOLD is a new fashion that invites people to temporarily modify their skin using a technique called Skin Folding. It is not unusual when meeting Adele that she will fondle your skin and offer you a temporary change of clothes. Adele has a degree in Fashion and has currently completed her Master of Design. Before embracing her postgraduate studies she worked with Bernhard Willhelm in Paris and as a special effects artist on a selection of B grade films. Alongside her fashion practice, Adele currently teaches within the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT University.
