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Destination Shirt n°1
The localities for the Destination Shirts n°1 are being made accessible by people who live and/or work at these places. The project would not be possible without their help. The Destination Shirt has been developed during a residency at nadine vzw in Brussels 2012.
Destination Shirt n°1 100% cotton purchase and printing 19,60 euro travel: 13,75 + x + y x (destination > bxl): max 17,00 euroy (money transfer): max 8,00 euro commission 30% costs: 74,00 euro
The amounts for x and y can vary, depending on how the shirt eventually will be shipped. Overplus will be refunded in case the travel of the shirt costs less than estimated.
The Destination Shirt is a series of garments that for a certain period of time will be exposed to environmental conditions. The exposure can have a visible impact on the garment. If the impact is reversible or not, strong or faible or even leading to the desctruction of the garment, is not foreseeable. A Destina-tion Shirt can be purchased. On the following pages you will find information about the des-tinations for the shirts of edition n°1. This edition comprises twelve destinations. The places are chosen due to their specific climatic and physiographic characteristics. The exact localities, where the shirts eventually will be deposited are being made accessible with the help of people who live and/or work at the locality or closed to it.If you want to buy a shirt, please let us know the destination of your choice. We will take care of the shipping, people on-site will deposit the garment and send it back to us after ten months. Finally, you will be delivered your shirt at your postal address.
Much of the land in the area is not cultivated and most of the natural vegetation is still intact. The landscape is widely cove-red with mosaic croplands. A typical karst topography, which is characterized by caves, sinkholes, fissures and underground streams, is found. The climate is classified as a tropical savanna with a subtropical moist forest biozone. Some of the mountains are almost entirely iron ore.The location is sparsely populated with 13 people per km2.
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19°30’50.40’’S - 43°44’45.97’’W 694 m.a.s.l
Jaboticatubas, BR
A maritime-influenced polar climate with cold, snowy winters and cool summers, the location does not experience perma-frost. The region classifies as arctic tundra with glaciers and long deep fjords. Vegetation is sparse. The terrain is mostly a flat but gradually sloping icecap that covers all land except for a narrow, mountainous, rocky coast. The location (as all popula-ted places on the island) is not connected to any other place via roads. The shirt will be put on a glacier.
60°43’20.00’’N - 46°2’25.00’’W-9999 m.a.s.l.
Qaqortoq, GL
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Large dunes formed by wind-blown sand of orange color. The dunes reach a hight up to 150m. The locality lies at the edge of the dunes. By nature mobile sand fields are very active. Smaller dunes form and migrate along the flanks of the larger dunes and sand ridges. Occasional precipitation fills basins for-med by the dunes; as the water evaporates, salt deposits are left behind. The shirt will be nailed on a wooden wall facing south.
31°17’9.00’’N - 4°16’30.00’’W740 m.a.s.l.
Rissani, MA
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The place lies in a lush and dense forest with the type of vegetation natural to the cool temperate zone: deciduous hardwood trees such as oaks, maples, alders, zelkovas mixed with conifers. It is a mountainous region with sculpted granite and rocky pinnacles, deep, narrow canyons with nearly vertical walls. Red and yellow soils are the major types that are com-mon here. Winters are long, cold, and dry, whereas summers are short, hot, and humid. The shirt will be attached to a tree with with a wire.
35°32’15.07’’N - 127°30’43.3’’E585 m.a.s.l.
Juksan-ri, KR
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Coastal location surrounded by mountains with a tropical maritime climate. Most of the native vegetation has been strip-ped, yet there exists a luscious and diversified indigenous vege-tation, among which cedar, mahogany, logwood, rosewood, ebony, palmetto palm, coconut palm and pimento. Ferns grow almost everywhere. The ecoregion ranks fifth among the Earth’s islands in terms of endemic plant life. The place lies in the Atlantic hurricane belt and frequently experiences signifi-cant storm damage. The shirt will be deposited in the garden of a town house.
17°59’33.83’’N - 76°47’31.23’’W54 m.a.s.l.
Kingston, JM
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The locality lies on the foot of a dormant volcano, which shows fumarolic activity, but no evidence of eruption in the past 1000 years. The climate of the area is semi arid, lying in a rain shadow. The region is characterized by small areas of natural wet meadow, open hillsides with steppic vegetation, a number of small, spring-fed alpine meadows in side val-leys. There is grazing by sheep, goats and horses. The area is known to be stained with intensely colorful flower-patches, when wild poppy, buttercup and irises are blossoming in springtime.
35°50’49.89’’N - 52° 2’52.90’’E2195 m.a.s.l.
Polur, IR
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The climate of the area is humid continental, with cold sum-mers and very cold and extremely snowy winters, but without dry season. The lake adjacent to the locality reaches a depth of over 350m. The vegetation consists of boreal forest with mainly black spruce and extensive carpets of moss. The otherwise plain lowland is here and there pierced by rounded bosses of crystalline rocks and tabular outcrippings of sedimen-taries. The shirt will be put in a bed of moss under a and fixed with branches.
48°33’1.66’’N - 71°39’9.97’’W85 m.a.s.l.
Alma, CA
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The destination lies on the banks of a river, where it makes sudden turn, flowing in a meander from south to north and thus forming a peculiar shape, symbolically described as a crescent moon. The land is very fertile, because low level floods continually replenish the soil. This sandy-silty loam area is seasonally used to cultivate summer vegetables and me-lons. The locality is exposed to extreme climatic circums-tances: the temperature in winter being around 0°, whereas summer brings temperatures around 45°C, monsoon rain and and an extreme dust and pollution level.
25°19’3.52’’N - 82°58’26.09’’E80 m.a.s.l.
Varanasi, IN
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The place lies on the shore of the countries’ longest fjord. It is surrounded by steep basalt mountains on three sides. The area classifies as tundra with an arctic vegetation, mostly cha-racterized by low-shrubs and dwarf-shrubs, sedges, grasses, mosses and lichens. Extensive tracts of land are desert-like, due to erosion. The climate is polar oceanic. The coast remains ice-free through the winter despite its proximity to the Arctic. The shirt will be hung on a drying-rack for fish.
66°9’6.12’’N - 18°54’33.84’’W03 m.a.s.l
Fjallabyggd, IS
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The large-scale physiographic setting is defined by a tectonic depression, bounded by steep escarpments. The locality lies in marshland with fresh water, geothermal springs or streams, lakes and creeks. The formerly abundant, extensive and co-herent primary forest is now partly fragmented. The soils are loamy-sandy textured and fertile. General climate is tropical monsoon, the place benefits of a special pleasant and favourable micro-climate.
7° 5’3.00’’N - 38°37’8.03’’E1285 m.a.s.l.
Wondo Genet, ET
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Owing to its low latitude and high elevation, the area ex-periences a mild subtropical highland climate. With the driest and sunniest conditions in winter, and summers that are warm and damp. The vegetation of the region is extraor-dinarily rich, as it is extensive rainforest mountains with more than 7000 endemic plant species and around 30 endangered ani-mal species. Over the last decade the area has become a heroin and smuggling region. Marijuana grows wild.The shirt will be hung on a tree.
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26°52’36.37’’N - 100°13’49.33’’E2394 m.a.s.l.
Lijiang, CA
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The locality lies in a region which is marked by broken, rugged, mountainous terrain of extinct volcanoes, lava domes and cin-der cones. The vegetation mainly consists of dense, coniferous forests of pine, fir and cedar trees. The climate is tempe-rate with rain all year round. Geographically considered a highland area, with temperate highland valleys. The region is famous for being a hibernation place for migrating monarch butterflies, roosting on the trees in concentrations so dense that the weight of them can snap off branches.
19°51’7.61’’N - 100°24’34.18’’W2600 m.a.s.l.
Tlalpujahua, MX
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Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective capsule. The plant belongs to the mallow family and is of the genus Gossypium, a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions. It’s flower is alike the ones of hibis-cus or the hollyhock. The fiber is almost pure cellulose. (1)
Cellulose is the most common organic compound on Earth. It has no taste, is odorless, insoluble in water and most organic solvents and is biodegradable. It can be broken down chemically into its glucose units by treating it with concen-trated acids at high temperature. (2a,b,c)
The fibre in the closed cotton-capsule is round. When the capsule opens, the fibre dries and its section becomes kidney-shaped.Alike the annual rings of trees the cotton fibre consists of cellulose layers that grow from the outside inwards, leaving the core of the fibre hollow. When it dries the fibre turns around its longitudinal axis until it looks like a flattened, twisted hose. The layered and hollow structure of the fibre is easily penetrated by water, and allows humi-dity to be stored. Sweat can thus be absorbed and later washed out. Through absorption the fibre swells and the layers of cellulose are densely compressed. The soaked fibre is thus more resistant than the dry fibre. Cotton is composed of highly regular cellulose molecule chains which makes the fibre strong but quite inelastic. (1)
Cotton can absorb up to 20% vaporous humidity without feeling humid. It can store humidity up to 65% of its own weight without leaking, but dries slowly. The wet cotton fibre is even more resistant than the dry one. (2a,b,c)
Cotton is resistant to sweat, bases, chemical cleaning but sensitive to concentra-ted acids, strong exposure to light, steady temperature above 200°C and endu-ring dampness. (2a,b,c)
Natural fibers have to be protected from any humidity, be it from too much $loration, mold, decomposition. Organic fibers exposed to humidity tend to staining, smelling dull and molding. The fiber gets less tear- resistant and elas-tic. Contact with steel and iron strapping can cause rust damage through cor-rosion. (3)
Natural fibers are highly hygroscopic and can absorb large quantities of damp without feeling humid. The volume of cotton bales increases in 40 - 45% by bulking. This can lead to the bursting of containers. (3)
Textiles are conserved only under extremely rare and fortunate circumstances. Vegetable textiles need for their preservation a neutral to alkaline environment around 10pH. Textile materials, as soon as they get in touch with soil, will be decomposed by micro-organisms, bacteria and fungi until they are entirely destroyed. Ideal storage conditions are always provided by a combination of conditions such as complete absence of oxygen and light or an extreme and constant dry storage. Textiles can be preserved by storing them in an envi-ronment that is unfavorable for micro-organisms. Even if textiles have been preserved for centuries the process of decomposition spontaneously starts in the moment they get into contact with air and light. Archeologists witnessed how textiles from just opened graves lost their bright colors within seconds, turned grey-brown and crumbled away in a moment. (4)
The ‘grey cloth’, woven cotton fabric in its loom-state, not only contains impurities, including warp size, but requires further treatment in order to develop its full textile potential. (5)
desizing, scouring, bleaching, mercerizing, singeing, raising, calendaring, sanforizing (5)
removing the size (protective coating) from the warp yarns of woven fabrics with natural or synthetic sizing agents; removing natural wax and non-fibrous impurities during chemical washing process, improving whiteness with oxidi-zing agents, improving lustre, strength and dye affinity through treatment with caustic soda solution to cause swelling of the fibres , enhancing smoothness by burning off surface fibres, lifting surface of fibres through treatment with sharp teeth to impart hairiness, softness and warmth, passing fabric between heated rollers to produce smooth, polished or embossed effect on one or both sides of the fabric, preventing fabric and the produced garment from shrinking after production (5)
Many modifications and treatments have been studied to improve resistance to rotting, heat, and weathering and to improve laundering and dyeing charac-teristics of fabrics. Many of the treatments require the use and handling of chemically active agents such as acetic anhydride in glacial acetic acid with which perchloric acid is used as a catalyst for partial acetylation, monoethy-lamine for decrystallization and acrylonitrile that are or may be used form
explosive mixtures with air. They are toxic or at least severely irritating to the eyes, nose, and throat. Some are skin vesicants. (6)
One of the greatest threats to textiles is light. The worst damage is caused by ultraviolet (UV) radiation from natural daylight and from fluorescent light bulbs. However, while the UV rays damage most rapidly, the entire light spec-trum causes textile dyes to fade and the fibers to become brittle. There is some protection in keeping window shades pulled down or shutters closed during the sunniest times of the day. UV filtering materials or films can be placed over windows and fluorescent bulbs. Perhaps the most important rule of thumb is taking care to use or display your textile for limited periods of time. Ideally, rotation should be done seasonally - display your textile four months, and then allow it to ‘rest’ in proper storage for the remainder of the year. (7)
UV Index
0-2 Low danger from the sun’s UV rays for the average person. 3-5 Moderate risk of harm from unprotected skin. 6-7 High risk of harm from unprotected sun exposure. 8-10 Very high risk of harm from unprotected sun exposure. 11+ Extreme risk of harm from unprotected sun exposure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottonttp://www.consequent.org/consequent/materialkunde/baumwolle.htmhttp://www.seilnacht.com/Lexikon/k_naturhttps://www.vci.dehttp://www.containerhandbuch.dehttp://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textilarch%C3%A4ologiehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finishing_%28textiles%29'Treating Cotton with Volatile and Toxic Chemicals', from 'Industrial and Engineering Chmistry', february 1955http://www.textilemuseum.org/care/brochures/guidelines.htm
All climatic tables are from: www.worldclimateguide.co.uk
(1)(2a)(2b)(2c)(3)(4)(5)(6)
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Credits
Alice Liu, Listhus Art House, Iceland
Alicia Marvan, The Guapamacàtaro Center for Art and Ecology, Mexico
Atefeh Khas, Iran
Buuti Pedersen, Kimik-Association of Artists in Greenland
Karen Hadfield, Cafe Tissardmine - Artshouse-Guesthouse, Morocco
Mercy Kebede, Netsa Art Village, EthiopiaOdile Baurens, Rhizome-Lijiang Art Center, China
Petra Manefeld, Kriti Gallery, India&
Aline Luna LessDorothee Depeauw & Mathias Koole
Majorie FortinJi Kanghun
&nadine vzw
ceci est un magasin de vêtementsSara ten Westenend (art)
Maaike Gottschal (fashion)Annelies Kuypers (anthropology)
Isabelle Makay (anthropology)Miriam Rohde (architecture)
ceci est un magasin de vêtements is a project by people from different backgrounds: visual art, fashion, architecture and anthropology. ceci est un magasin de vêtements is an artificial environment that we use as a place and starting-point for theo-retical and practical artistic research into the relation between objects and people as their makers and users.
