Modeled on conventional building elements (wall, roof, threshold), Bagging is a family of textile garments for collective bodies. Together they explore the ways that architecture specifies degrees of fit between bodies and designed assemblies. These bags are precisely tailored to fit an ambiguous number of bodies, embedded with various adjustable features (zippers, drawstrings, velcro) that afford multiple relations among their wearers. In this sense, bagginess becomes strategic and generative, a cover for illicit or unplanned ends, rather than evidence of imprecision.
2021
Performed at the Dance Complex
Cambridge, MA