LCF After Dark: Past/Future Patterns
Overview
Join us for LCF After Dark: Past/Future Patterns, a late opening of talks, showcases, workshops and performances responding to 20/20, a major project conceived by Professor susan pui san lok, Director of UAL’s Decolonising Arts Institute, with funding from Freelands Foundation, Arts Council England and UAL.
The evening will explore how practices of fashion, art and design can confront and reimagine colonial legacies. Through live talks, creative workshops and performances, we’ll consider the politics of archive collections, the impact of waste colonialism, and the possibilities of upcycling and pattern making as tools for resistance and repair.
Bringing together artists, students and researchers, this event invites audiences to engage with new approaches to decolonising fashion, art and collections to imagine more just and sustainable futures.
Collaborators include: Newham Libraries, The Space, Gayle Chong Kwan, Border Crossings, Upcycle 365, LCF Archives, Decolonising Fashion and Textiles Project, Sandra Titus and more.
About 20/20
20/20 was led by artist susan pui san lok (UAL Professor in Contemporary Art and Director, Decolonising Arts Institute) and delivered with the 20/20 team (Martine Rouleau, Rebecca Gremmo, Ramatoulie Bobb and Maya Little), generously supported with funding from Freelands Foundation, Arts Council England and UAL.
20/20: Futures is an exhibition at London College of Fashion, UAL collaboratively developed by the Decolonising Arts Institute with LCF's Cultural Programme, and generously supported by the Cheng-Lan Foundation.
Visitor Information
The event will begin at 5pm, visitors are welcome to drop-in between 5-8pm. This is a guestlist event, say your name at the door upon your arrival for entry.
Address: London College of Fashion, 105 Carpenter's Road, London, E20 2AR.
Accessibility Information
For full details on building access and facilities at London College of Fashion (Carpenter’s Road), please see our AccessAble guide: Access Guide
If you have any specific access needs, feel free to contact us. Taxi drop off is available for those with access needs; please see LCF’s website for more information.
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- 3 hours
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London College of Fashion
105 Carpenters Road
London E20 2AR United Kingdom
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Threads of Home
A Virtual Reality film created by LCF students in collaboration with Newham Libraries and The Space. The project celebrates South Asian culture through storytelling, conversation, and collaborative art making, inviting audiences to experience an immersive exploration of identity, memory, and community.
Upcycle 365 Takeover
LCF PHD student Toyin Gbomedo has curated an interactive space on the Mezzanine floor offering visitors the chance to learn about waste colonialism and to take part in a series of mending and upcycling workshops. Materials will be provided and visitors are welcome to bring their own garments to try repair and upcycling techniques. Upcycle 365 is a campaign encouraging people to reclaim, rework, and reimagine their secondhand clothing and discarded garments for one year.
Dressing the Silence
Join LCF alum Sandra Titus for a workshop exploring ways of looking at fashion as an emotional archive, and making with textiles as a process for exploring the unspoken and the forgotten. Through fabric, thread, embellishment, and reflection, participants are invited to create a symbolic piece of textile or any tangible form that represents a silence or a memory.
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