Event 1 Blog Assignment:

For this event assignment, I visited the Making Strange: Gagawaka + Postmortem By Vivian Sundaram at the Fowler Museum at UCLA.

 At the exhibition I learned that the Gagawaka and Postmortem's collection of haunting sculptural objects on the mannequins and dummies was designed to target the social understanding of the human body and public concerns over human aging and illness. The collection used trash as a starting point for the garments on the mannequins. Different lines of garments were made out of foam cups,  surgical masks, medication pills, x-ray films and much more. There are also different mannequins with different medical objects inside of them.

Different parts of the human body are placed in the mannequins providing a different view of how the human body is currently viewed as. During week 4, we talked about the study of anatomy and how the art of the human body came about in the 1960s. The human body is central in understand how our identities in our society which includes gender, sexuality, and race. In this exhibition, I can see that the artist is challenging the currently social understanding of the human body by incorporating different parts of medical objects in the mannequins and dressing them in x-ray films, surgical masks, and creating a jumpsuit out of medication pills.

Garment made from red undergarment:

I found the red bra bandage garment interesting because looking from afar, it looks no different from a dress made of red ruffles. 

Garment made from surgical masks

Jumpsuit made of medication pills

Overall, I would recommend this exhibition for those who are interested in not only fashion but also the creative side of understanding the human body. Not to mention, many wacky displays of mannequins' bodies twisted in ways that are impossible in reality.