PUBLICATION—LOVE ALL LIVE – OR: CARING FOR THE OTHER
A text by Toni Brell, in collaboration with Warehouse.
Philipp Schueller weaves an intricate tapestry, combining an array of threads that cannot easily be untangled. By seamlessly blending elements of fashion, marine biology, pop-culture, astrology, and kitsch, while reflecting on notions of care, he creates a rich and complex texture that speaks to the interconnect - edness of all things living and artificial. Threading the needle of interspecies relations, Schueller invites us to consider our place in the web of life and the significance of our connections to the non-human world.
Philipp Schueller’s artistic journey began during his residency at the Jan van Eyck Academie from 2021 to 2022. In his previous practice as a fashion designer, Schueller critically investigated themes of ecology and care in the fashion industry. But his time at the Jan van Eyck Academie allowed him to step back from the production aspect of his work and contemplate on questions of coexistence. He began to speculate what it would mean for fashion to become a hybrid practice, situated between science and nature. Fascinated by the way fashion constantly transforms itself to stay current and its ability to commu - nicate messages, Schueller started to wonder whether fashion’s evolutionary potential could be used to bring stories to life. Can designing for other species help to challenge dominant human-centric narratives? Is it possible to address the complex and diverse needs of other species through fashion? Can humans even think through or become another species? And how would we have evolved without fashion? Download the full article here.
WAREHOUSE
Warehouse is an Amsterdam-based fashion platform that aims to create space for explosive, critical and alternative approaches to fashion that move beyond industrial commercial fashion and treating garments as commodities. Their FOCUS text series research garments in context, through the lens of guest authors. Das Leben am Haverkamp co-published a FOCUS text about the work of Philipp Schueller. Philipp Schueller exhibited at Das Leben am Haverkamp.
Procrustinacean is supported by Creative Industries Fund NL.