MICO|4 - Presented as part of the PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival’s Independent Programme
Event description
Artisan fashion label REMUSE and their collaborators return with a production exploring how the answers to waste colonialism can be found through biomimicry and reverence for the Funghi kingdom. Held at RE/Space, the fourth floor installation space of innovative architectural project BETA by Sth Bnk, created entirely from found and waste materials, audiences will be immersed into a world that bears reverence to nature’s first recyclers – mushrooms, through the continuation of a series designed to ignite all senses through recycled fashion, recycled installation, decolonised beauty, and circular design, created from inhouse and community sourced textile scraps and both food waste, low impact and plant-based dyes. This production is the continuation of a series co-founded by label REMUSE and projection artist Simbiotic.Vision.
The show will consist of a durational music performance curated and performed by producer and vocalist Komang in conversation with movement artists and muses- iconic independent artists across Naarm’s dynamic creative artists community alongside agency models represented by our official agency partner Jira Models. The runway hair direction will feature decolonial hairstyles of mycelial inspired textured, afro, and coily styles under direction of Elvies Studios with hair product sponsor Organic Suku, a company that fuses ancient traditions with trichology to create products that support multi-textured hair. The runway will also feature plant based cactus leather accessories by cruelty free artisan label Texcoco Collective. Vegan and vegetarian catering for all guests included in the ticket purchase will be provided by café and social enterprise Ageyo Coffee. Ushering in the inaugural fungi season, this show will both entertain and educate through the collective exploration of the themes of connectivity, and the cycle of life, death and renewal.
R E M U S E acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands on which this work will be presented, the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation, and pay our deepest respects to Elders past, present and future. We acknowledge that this work exploring themes of waste colonialism, circularity, and mycology takes place on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung People. Sovereignty has never been ceded; we create this work with the utmost respect for the culture, traditions, and spiritual practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
6pm Doors Open- Craft Contemporary exhibition ~ "Materials Matter" on viewing
6:30pm Show starts
[Brief Intermission]
7:30pm - Show ends
General Admission | $45
Concession BlakTix | Free (contact info [at] remusedesigns.com to arrange. Limited concession tickets available due to venue capacity)
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