Within the lecture Harm Coordes will give an insight in the project CHURCH OF THE HAND. He will talk about the use of atmosphere as space, fashion as cult and slow fashion as a statement towards a consumerist society. The quasi-religious artistic community sets out to implement „spiritual branding“ as an exaggerated reflection on current marketing strategies of globally operating companies. COTH necessitates the customers participation, creating multisensoric rooms of experience in between fashion, installation and performance.
all photographs by Chul Gyun Yoo
Biography:
Harm Coordes (*1984) lives and works in Berlin and Bremen. Since graduating at Hochschule für Künste Bremen in 2013, he has been working as a freelance fashion and costume designer, scenographer and artist. In his work he deals with socio-cultural topics such as homelessness, love, food, religion and evanescence. With great pleasure he is part of the independent theatre group Thermoboy FK as well as the bike-crew upper roll blitz. He has worked for Henrik Vibskov, Junges Theater Bremen, Schwankhalle Bremen, Junges Theater Bremerhaven, machine eX, SUNST and others. He started developing the conceptual fashion project CHURCH OF THE HAND in 2017, setting up a series of performances and exhibitions. Since 2015 he works as a lecturer at HfK Bremen in the field of experimental fashion, fashion as experiment and fashion drawing.