Baja costura para cuerpxs virtuales

Abstract

Baja Costura para cuerpxs virtuales is a set of stitches between sewing, electronic arts and various theoretical contributions, which were connected with two collective artistic projects. The collective projects came about thanks to a sewing space, which lasted a year and a half, in which we got together to sew, draw, use computers, get to know some electronic devices, and talk and imagine about bodies and sewing. In this research-creation project, we bet on a couture epistemology in which practices are contaminated, patched up knowledge is valid, and subjects risk imagining their bodies through clothing. Working from the "below" allows us to contaminate and dialogue between languages of different technologies to achieve a "high" risk of sewing for the invisible bodies. From our companion animals and objects, to oppressed, naked or colonized bodies, these are bodies that require other ways of sketching, measuring, cutting and sewing to be "dressed". A seam like this could carry a virtual body, a potential body that is capable of making-opening space and that at the same time becomes an exercise in re-existence.