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Workshop at Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft, Sussex
I was asked to run a badge making workshop inspired by the Sister Corita Kent exhibition.
The role of this workshop was to facilitate discussions around politics and the envionment.
I was interested in the role of identity badges hold to their wearers, their relevency in
campaigning, politics and popular culture.
It was interesting to hear from people who were former punks, who’d boldly wear their beliefs on
their jacket and shirts through badges and diy clothing but now don’t.
How have peoples perceptions changed, do people no longer wear a badge in fear of being
confronted in public places? Do people no longer want to prescribe to their own messages,
outwardly present their own beliefs?
It’s interesting to think about how around election time this changes significantly
Considering the mass-marketability of culture, psudo-feminist clothing manufactured by high street brands.
The message lost through cheap prices, highly unethical for the makers (who are typically women).
Instead of making your own message from the DIY ethos consumers pick up premade tshirts
THE FUTURE IS FEMALE , GRL PWR , WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS
authenticity? pure capitalist greed?
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