Jack & Laura's Precedents

We're doing a collective post this week since we're working together on our surfaces project. I'm going to put up two precedents we found for our work.

1. Atsuko Tanaka--Electric Dress, 1956

Tanaka was inspired by neon advertising signs so she made a dress out of light bulbs and cords that she wore out to openings and other events. The dress refers to the circuitry of the body as well as clothing.




2. Joseph Beuys--Felt Suit, 1970

Beuys tailored multiple copies of one of his own suits in felt and hung it up, absent and disconnected from the body, in many different places. He was interested in the idea of distribution and repetition as well as overcoming some of the elitism of the art world (hence many copies).