Artangel 500s: Volume 1: The Concise Dictionary of Dress

Writers respond to Artangel projects
Vol 1: May - June 2010

Swords at Blythe House

30 June 2010
Bronwyn Cosgrave, author and broadcaster
"Knowing the provenance of a work always prompts me to make certain associations; in a fashion exhibition, particularly, designer names can be distracting relating as they do to an industry overloaded with imagery and opinion."
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23 June 2010
Calum Storrie, exhibition designer and writer
"The buildings in which archives are housed tend towards the invisible - they donʼt want to draw attention to themselves. This one is a recycled structure but others are anonymous sheds."
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16 June 2010
Adam Phillips, psychoanalyst and writer
"The psychoanalyst Ralph Greenson once suggested that it was better in the old days when little boys were dressed up as little girls to begin with, because at least it acknowledged that boys start by identifying with their mothers."
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9 June 2010
Rebecca Arnold, Oak Foundation Lecturer in History of Dress & Textiles at the Courtauld Institute of Art
"In fashion, absence is a constant presence."
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2 June 2010
Brian Dillon, writer
"There is hidden in plain sight a reference that tells us much about the seductiveness of archives and their tendency to undo their own ordering principles."
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26 May 2010
Claire Wilcox, Senior Curator of Fashion at the V&A
"I have always been drawn to Blythe, although find it melancholy. I like its mortuary atmosphere, the fluorescent lighting, infinity views and old fashioned bathrooms."
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