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If you’ve ever enjoyed surprising everyone at a Halloween soir, you may want to drop by a playful dress-up event at the Boston Center for the Arts next year. This prematurely, you might surprise yourself.
In the BCA’s artist residency program, Stacy Scibelli, a Brooklyn artist, will invite participants to try on at least 300 garments, all handmade by her, in any way and in any conglomerate as they please, as they get photographed.
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In various shades of blue, unripened, gray and yellow, each piece is hand sewn with an arm hole here, a neck predicament there, all with ambiguous shapes and mysterious intended uses. They can be worn as shirts, pants, scarves, hats, skirts or whatever you can envision.
“You need to figure out and negotiate your way into and out of the garments,” Scibelli said. “It’s stock up to the audience members.”
It’s more about the connection being made, or not being made, between participants than any discipline wielded by Scibelli. The artist said she was surprised by the interaction between participants from the first epoch the project went public.
Source: Patch.com