Jennifer Anyan

United Kingdom
research interests: fashion, art, embodiment, affect, Sensor-technology, performative writing, art writing, autoethnography
affiliation: Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK
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I am an artist, creative director and fashion studies scholar. My research engages in a critical and playful exploration of the fashioned body using interdisciplinary methods. I also use my practice as a starting point to write about the fashioned body, working within a theoretical framework that considers both the identity and experience of styled bodies. I am Associate Professor of the Art of Fashion and Head of Postgraduate Provision in the Faculty of Creative Industries, Architecture and Engineering at Solent University, Southampton, UK. 

 

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  • Interrogating the notion of 'frock consciousness' through the practice of dressing and responding to dressed bodies (2020) author(s): Jennifer Anyan published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    Within my practice as an artist that draws upon my professional experience as a fashion stylist, I have undertaken a broad range of practice-based projects in the last thirteen years that deal with the identity and dress. This exposition seeks to use Virginia Woolf’s notion of frock consciousness as a framework to demonstrate how each of the projects has contributed to a body of research that has enabled me to make a contribution to knowledge in terms of how the practice of dressing ourselves impacts upon one’s consciousness and experience of being in the world. Lisa Cohen in her essay "Frock Consciousness”: Virginia Woolf, the Open Secret, and the Language of Fashion (1999) reminds us that, whilst the idea of frock consciousness discussed by Woolf in her diary of 1925 might at first appear to be an oxymoron, one word concerned with coverings and the other a quality of mind, clothes “lie between what we understand to be public space (the social world at large), and what we consider private (the body of an individual)” (150:1999).
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  • Fashioning the Voice (last edited: 2020) author(s): Jennifer Anyan, Yvon Bonenfant, Katie Daley-Yates This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    Fashioning the Voice is an interdisciplinary research project that brings together the expertise of Yvon Bonenfant an artist-academic who extends voice across media to explore innovative ways of creating (University College, Cork); Dr. Tychonas Michailidis, who’s work focuses on sensor technology and interactions (Research Fellow at Solent University) and myself.]
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