In this film the poem 'Rong Radio' is performed by Benjamin Zephaniah. Although it is 6mins and 45 seconds it is very good. The poem references the idea of being out of kilter with the 'norm', how this affects you and how you are seen by other people, how you are measured by others against their values and beliefs, what it is like being on the outside. The poem raises many questions for the 'Other' project.
Hussein Chalayan's importance has now been recognized to be at the forefront of contemporary fashion design. After all he has been named ''British Designer of the Year'' and has created an elegant reputation for his use of innovative materials, meticulous pattern cutting and incorporating new technology, as well as eccentric pieces which border on ins-tallation art. He has a sense of material in an inventive and humorous way, with some references to the orient, (his heritage is eastern Mediterranean, Turkish states that his creative work ''borrows from architecture, design, philosophy, anthropology, science and technology'' who straddles disciplines.
He sewed a papery materials into foldable ''airmail clothes'' complete with red and blue striped borders and string which could be used to tie them up into letter format. Chalayan has recently produced a T-shirt which is delivered in a sealed envelope printed with an airmail postmark, an address and sender section and a short text which explains to the buyer that sending somebody this item of clothing serves ''as a reminder of your presence or absence.''
He was nominated for the Turner Prize and is famous for his use of fabric in his work. The patterns are originally Dutch and were subsumed into African culture during the Colonial period where countries like Holland, France and Britain took over large regions of Africa, India, Pakistan, Austailia, New Zealand, Canada, etc.
Yinka Shonibare's Jardin d'amour (2007) was the series of installations. The artwork consisted of a labyrinthine, reconstructed 18th century Rococo-styled ornamental French garden arranged as three secluded enclosures in which different thematic tableaux were staged. Each of the main areas were separated by shrub-covered trellis, tightly bound reed-screen fences, privets, climbing plants and artificial rose bushed that served as foliage-covered boundary walls around the entire exhibition.
Yinka Shonibare's art is widely regarded as powerful enough to disturb even the most traditional and resistant organisations.
This performances is 6 minutes and 5 seconds. It is a poem that references the idea of an island culture. It could be based within a particular geography of the Caribbean but it could also be relevant to all isolated places where a regional identity is explored.
Megan Chilcott
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