NEWS: Bridge Welcomes New Couture Section Editor Kristin Mariani

Written By Michael Workman

NEWS: Bridge Welcomes New Couture Section Editor Kristin Mariani

First-Ever Bridge Couture Section Editor Kristin Mariani is a Chicago-based Dressmaker, Designer & Artist.

With the release of Bridge V22N1, Bridge welcomes new Couture section Editor Kristin Mariani. Her practice is an ongoing conversation between design and art; acknowledging the slippery distinctions between the two disciplines, her investigations unfold in this unstable territory. Through the craft of making clothes, Kristin deploys aesthetic strategies, skill-based knowledge, and text to probe the historical, material, and labor-oriented underpinnings encapsulated in any effort to clothe a person. For her project Yes/On featured in the Couture section, she addresses intimacy, care, language and boundaries, questioning how the production of gender is figured through fashion, place, and labor.

Kristin creates works for dance, performance, and installation, and is faculty in the Department of Fashion Design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been presented in Chicago at The Arts Club, Studio Gang, MCA, Experimental Sound Studio, SITE/less, Chicago Architecture Foundation, and SAIC Galleries. In NY her designs have been featured at Roulette, The Kitchen, and Joyce Theatre. Internationally her work has been shown at Audio Art Festival, Krakow, Poland; ArtStays 9, Ptuy, Slovenia; and in Soledad, Mexico City, Mexico, and in the Nido exhibition at the International Center for the Arts in Montecastello di Vibio, Italy.

Her debut with this volume of the Bridge Journal includes a new fashion spread with Darling Shear, photographed at SITE/less Chicago by Joerg Metzner, and with an accompanying essay by Caroline Bellios.

Michael Workman

Michael Workman is a choreographer, language, visual and movement artist, dance and performance artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere, Workman is also Director of Bridge, an artistic collective and 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization (bridge-chicago.org). His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries Vol. 1, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Most recently, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing.

https://michaelworkmanstudio.com
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