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title = "The Bremen Collection 2003",
author = "Tracy Mackenna and Edwin Janssen and Horst Griese and Eva Schmidt",
note = "Exhibition involved designing fabrics and garments for a series of six outfits, 'The Bremen Collection 2003' that portrayed the city of Bremen in colloboration with Mackenna. Research focused on the history of fashion, Bremen{\textquoteright}s past as a Hanseatic trading city and its contemporary activity as a centre for aeronautics and space travel industry. As in many cities with an influential history the future of Bremen is framed through a series of projected ideas that do not grow organically but are the result of a political and economic need to redefine its identity. Six models became the vehicles that enabled dissemination, clothes worn in the city during a series of unscheduled appearances. The lack of announcements and the casual air that the wearers adopted allowed them to mingle with the public in a non-confrontational manner and enabled the work to be a catalyst for conversation about the nature of the city. In some of the outfits the, sometimes uneasy, juxtaposition of garments disassociated the clothes from fashion. The {\textquoteleft}Z{\"u}kunft Soldat{\textquoteright} for example was contentious in its direct reference to the city{\textquoteright}s national socialist past, reinforced by the oddity of the half-man, half-boy sizing. Publication: 'Niemand ist eine Insel, Gesellschaft f{\"u}r Aktuelle Kunst' and The Lichthaus Plus Neue Kunst, Bremen, Germany, 2004 (ISBN 3-937577-44-0). Authors include: Norbert Schwontkowski, Rainer Ganahl, Eva Schmidt, Tracy Mackenna and Edwin Janssen. Visual material documenting research process was shown in Gesellschaft f{\"u}r Aktuelle Kunst. {\textquoteleft}The Bremen Collection 2003{\textquoteright} was later published in the Monograph, {\textquoteleft}A Perfect Image of Ourselves{\textquoteright} and the project was further discussed with curator Horst Griese in an interview: 'What remains constant in each project is our role as temporary visitors', {\textquoteleft}Changing Habitats: Art Experience and Urban Development{\textquoteright} that was published in November 2005. dc.title.alternative: Niemand ist eine insel/No man is an island dc.description.sponsorship: British Council Mondriaan Foundation Hope Scott Trust Fine Art Research Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee coverage.spatial: GAK: Gesellschaft f{\"u}r Aktuelle Kunst and city spaces, Bremen, 13th September - 26th October 2003 dc.contributor.other: Griese, Horst (curator) Schmidt, Eva Schmidt (curator) dc.format: 6 outfits dc.isbasedon: Exhibition catalogue - Niemand ist eine insel/No man is an island, 2004 Changing habitats: art experience and urban development, GAK Bremen, 2005 ",
year = "2003",
language = "English",
}