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2016
PERFORMING ARTS x WEARABLES
Transparent Borders
A speculative wearable collection, a video art, and a written paper - exploring the integration of embodied interaction into dress
Client
M.Des. Research project and thesis
My Role
Creative Direction, Costume Design, Textile design
Team
Video Photographer: Haim Yafim Barbalat
Sound design: Roy Cheled
Dancers: Noa Buchman, Keren Sancho Leviatov, Ariel Sher
Video editing: Omri Aylon
Grants
Act Shenkar, 2025
Shenkar-Azrieli Award for future talents, 2015
Exhibitions
Gridded Fabric(ations), Vitrina gallery, Holon - When Cyborgs Dance, 2020
Press
Portfolio magazine - gridded fabrication, April 2021
Talks
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Visual Culture in Israel, The Art of Tomorrow - Bodies Wearing Movement, Bezalel Academy, May 2018
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ISRAHCI (Radical Ui's track) - Bodies Wearing Movement, BGU, February 2018
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Movement Boundaries Seminar - Bodies Wearing Movement, BGU, 2016
Drawing principles from natural human interaction methodologies and notion languages, Body wearing Movement is a speculative applied research project exploring the development of a textile-base gestural interaction technique into dress.
What if machines could become an extension of our bodies and lead our fingertips to move in certain ways, could our clothing which are the closet thing to our physical body, do the same?
"Two dancers outstretched on the floor and intertwined, much like a mythological beast with two heads, four legs and four arms...“
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Ruth Eshel, Ha'aretz, March 2014
The videos were created as movement jam session with no prior rehearsal or dance instructions
LET'S DO SOMETHING GREAT TOGETHER