Diagramming fluidity is a research project by design researcher and visual sociologist Floriane Misslin. The project investigates how producers of fashion photography actualize the fluidity of gender in an industry that is oh so dominated by established modes of production and consumption based on the gendered binary division of women(swear) and men(swear).
The project outlines the conditions in which the fluidity of gender is being actualized in the production of fashion photography. Floriane Misslin interviewed several practitioners to discuss, question, and reflect upon the past and present of gender fluidity within the field. What gendered divisions have been made so far within fashion (photography)? Is there any room for non-binary visualizations? What is left unsaid, and what is missing? The outcome of the series of interviews is a selection of manifestos that both textually and visually as well as diagrammatically show the different means of making a gender fluid approach to fashion more visible within visual culture.
Diagramming Something Missing will exhibited at Onomatopee by means of a riso-printed wall piece that showcases the various design manifestos.
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About Floriane Misslin
Somewhere between visual and critical design, fashion and gender studies, sociology and its research methods is where Floriane Misslin’s practice resides. Misslin designs methodologies and media that provide for vivid and interactive ways to explore the entanglements of bodies and visual culture, and more particularly their relation to gender.
