Fast Fashion / Slow Art
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Bibiana Obler & Phyllis Rosenzweig This provocative publication focuses on videos by contemporary artists and filmmakers that encourage scrutiny of contemporary textile production and distribution. Is it possible to protect workers’ rights and ensure safe working conditions while keeping up with consumer demands? Can design and technology offer sustainable solutions to the environmental effects of fast fashion? What role do art and popular culture have in raising consumer consciousness? These questions and more will spark conversations about issues such as the merits of the local and tailor-made versus the global mass production of fast fashion. Bibiana Obler is associate professor of art history at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, George Washington University. Phyllis Rosenzweig is curator emerita, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution. With essays by Kirsty Robertson and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu. Fast Fashion / Slow Art accompanies an exhibition of

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