Clothing: Embodiment & Hybridisation - 4 Weeks

Tu+Fri, 9-11am ET
4 weeks, March 25 - April 18 

This course examines embodied clothing through the lens of hybrid cultures. Participants consider their own clothed body as we examine theories of embodiment by Joanne Entwistle and Giuliana Bruno, and of performativity via Judith Butler and Amelia Jones. We further consider cultural hybridisation and influence on clothing in a colonial context, using the concepts of "third space" by Homi Bhabha, "contact zones" by Louise Pratt, and "cultural hybridity" by Peter Burke.

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Instructor: Pragya Sharma is a Doctoral Researcher in History of Design at the University of Brighton. She currently researches recorded histories of domestic craft practices in India, including knitting, crochet, lace-making, and needlework. Her dissertation is provisionally titled "Cultures of Hand-knitting in North India: Provenance, Domesticity and Gendered Learning, c.1850-1980."