The space in the ever-shifting argument between the intangibility of gender theory and what the daily practice of getting and being dressed signifies, offers an opportunity to create new methods of writing feminist theory using a multi-dimensional autobiographical practice. By layering fragments of performance, still imagery, type, and audio, I am continuously exploring ways in which “knowledge [and the practice of knowledge] is transmitted through embodied action” (Taylor xvi).
Collected Fragments of Self, 2019—present
Video: “Getting Dressed and Being Dressed: Clothing as Autobiography of Identity.” Jana Jarosz, The Notebooks, 2018, www.janajarosz.com/fragmentsofself.
Accessed 30, March 2019. 1:15, 408.6mb
Video credits and works cited:
Videographer: Azmi Mert Erdem
Editorial design: Amanda Moreau
Voiceover: ©Deren, Maya. “In the Mirror of Maya Deren.” Film School Rejects, uploaded by Christopher Campbell, 26 April 2017,
filmschoolrejects.com/filmmaking-tips-maya-deren-a6ddb39a6442/. Accessed 1, March 2018.
Music: ©Cage, John. Music for a Percussion Quartet, Second Construction, 1940. Percussion Ensemble Mainz & Markus Hauke, released 1998, Germany, CD.
app.idagio.com/profiles/percussion-ensemble-mainz/recordings. Accessed 1, March 2018.
Re-embodied Portrait Fragment #2. 2018-2019. Jana Jarosz. Clothing construction, music, digital file: mp4. Sound Design: ©Luqman Brown, 2019.
The Body in Situation, The Mind in Situation. 2019. Jana Jarosz. Digital files: jpeg, varying sizes and dpi. Portrait credit: ©Elizabeth Young
Works cited:
Taylor, Diana. The Archive and The Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in The Americas. Duke University Press, 2003.
Video: “Getting Dressed and Being Dressed: Clothing as Autobiography of Identity.” Jana Jarosz, The Notebooks, 2018, www.janajarosz.com/fragmentsofself.
Accessed 30, March 2019. 1:15, 408.6mb
The Body in Situation, The Mind in Situation. 2019. Jana Jarosz. Digital files: jpeg, varying sizes and dpi. Portrait credit: ©Elizabeth Young
Re-embodied Portrait Fragment #2. 2018-2019. Jana Jarosz. Clothing construction, music, digital file: mp4. Sound Design: ©Luqman Brown, 2019.