Artworks and Exhibition Methods

I. Immersive Reconstruction through Technological Media

Digital Technology and Virtual Experience
Using technologies such as 3D printing, smart wearables, and laser engraving, traditional patterns can be transformed into wearable “dynamic art.” For instance, the Jade Rain series of garments exhibited at the China Silk Museum combines handmade lace with technological materials, making the garments appear as “living entities growing from the skin,” blurring the boundary between the human body and machinery.

In the exhibition, a virtual fitting device is used to cover the audience’s body with costumes from different generations through dynamic projection, forming a ‘physical narrative’ that intertwines time and space.

Jade Rain

Women are shown more vividly through projection technology.

link:https://www.szmuseum.com/static/panoramic/bfyjr/

Unearthed Relics of Women inLiao Dynasty Collected byInner Mongolia Institute ofCultural Relics and Archaeology

link:https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/657324eb0000000034034e17?app_platform=ios&app_version=8.69.4&share_from_user_hidden=true&xsec_source=app_share&type=video&xsec_token=CBmXpOXTry2yHnaFNAxACA74mX9oKGuSCjgnexd4aP0AU=&author_share=1&xhsshare=WeixinSession&shareRedId=N0wyOTw8STk2NzUyOTgwNjY0OTc5PkpB&apptime=1739130035&share_id=6630b428e152452ea54a666f2e038b8d

II. Cross-Media Symbol Deconstruction and Reassembly

1.Body Politics in Installation Art
Deconstructing traditional costume elements into installation symbols. For instance, amplifying the intricate embroidered edges of the Qing dynasty’s “Eighteen Rolls” as spatial installations, symbolizing the disciplined female body; or suspending the golden framework of the Ming dynasty’s phoenix coronet into an “aerial cage,” exploring the constraints imposed on women by Confucian rites. The She—Women’s Images and Talents exhibition at the Taipei Palace Museum has attempted to transform ancient female images into light and shadow installations, provoking reflections on gender gaze.

link:https://theme.npm.edu.tw/exh109/She/

2.Ritual Reconstruction in Performance Art
Drawing inspiration from traditional marriage rituals like the “binding of hair” and “joining of cups,” transforming them into contemporary performance art. For example, inviting the audience to tie red strings around each other’s bodies, symbolizing the binding and liberation of traditional marriage systems; or having women cut up bridal garments and resew them, performing the process of individual identity reconstruction.

III. Contemporary Fashion Design and Performance Art

In recent years, many contemporary fashion designers (e.g. Guo Pei) have reinterpreted the aesthetics and symbolism of traditional clothing by incorporating traditional elements such as hanboks and cheongsams into their designs. In addition, some performance art works also have performers wearing costumes with traditional symbols for live interpretation, visually demonstrating the tension between women’s identities in both traditional and modern contexts. Through the exhibition of these contemporary fashion design works and related performance art videos, the metaphors of female identity in ancient costumes can be related to modern women’s pursuit of self-expression and independence, forming a cultural dialogue across time and space, and critiquing historical physical discipline.

Combined with Ai design, the intangible cultural heritage buttons are deconstructed into abstract geometric sculptures, breaking the stereotype of being “exclusive to women”.

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IV. Social Participatory Art Practices

Community Co-Creation and Identity Narrative
Launching projects like the “Hundred-Piece Robe Project,” where women of different ages and professions donate personally meaningful fabric scraps to collectively sew a long, patchwork scroll symbolizing collective memory.

Conclusion:

In general, by combining traditional cultural relics (such as pre-Qin pottery figurines, Han Dynasty silk, Wei and Jin Dynasty murals, Tang and Song Dynasty ladies’ paintings, Ming and Qing Dynasty ladies’ paintings, etc.) with contemporary images, installations, fashion design, mixed media art and interactive activities, the exhibition can build a multi-dimensional space-time dialogue platform. Such an exhibition not only shows the historical trajectory of the evolution of Chinese women’s clothing, but also uses the language of contemporary art to trigger in-depth thinking about women’s status, cultural heritage and modern identity.

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