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Destination Shirt n°1
The Destination Shirt is a series of t-shirts that during 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, feeble, strong or even leading to the destruction or loss of the garment, is not foreseeable.
places with distinct climatic and physiographic characteristics. The shirts will be deposited at spots in the wild, where they are exposed to the local natural conditions for the duration of ten months.
A Destination Shirt can be purchased. For the time being, there
We will take care of the shipping to and from the location, a contact-person will deposit the shirt at the appointed spot and get it back from there after ten months.
If you want to buy a Destination Shirt please get back to us directly or via mail.
about
purchase 19.60 europroduction 24.50 eurocommission 30%shipping 30.75 euro maxmoney transfer 8.00 euro maxexpense fee 20.00 euro maxcost 112.00 euro
The amounts for shipping, money transfer and the expense fee for the contact person can vary. The buyer will be refunded the overplus when the shirt is delivered.
pricing
product information
material 100% Combed Cotton Fine Jersey 115g audited by the Fair Wear Foundation
coordinates of destinations printed insideinstructions wash at 30°Cmeasurements a 50,5 / b 72 a 53,5 / b 74 a 56,5 / b 76
destinations
and cool summers, the location does not experience permafrost.
-dually sloping icecap that covers all land except for a narrow, mountainous, rocky coast. The location (as all populated places on the island) is not connected to any other place via roads. The shirt will be put on a glacier.
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60°43’20.00’’N - 46°2’25.00’’W-9999 m.a.s.l.
Qaqortoq, GL
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31°17’9.00’’N - 4°16’30.00’’W740 m.a.s.l.
Rissani, MA
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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
dunes; as the water evaporates, salt deposits are left behind. The shirt will be nailed on a wooden wall facing south.
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35°32’15.07’’N - 127°30’43.3’’E585 m.a.s.l.
Juksan-ri, KR
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The place lies in a lush and dense forest with the type of vege-tation natural to the cool temperate zone: deciduous hardwood trees such as oaks, maples, alders, zelkovas mixed with coni-fers. 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 common here. Win-ters are long, cold, and dry, whereas summers are short, hot, and humid. The shirt will be attached to a tree with with a wire.
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17°59’33.83’’N - 76°47’31.23’’W54 m.a.s.l.
Kingston, JM
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Coastal location surrounded by mountains with a tropical ma-ritime climate. Most of the native vegetation has been stripped,
among which cedar, mahogany, logwood, rosewood, ebony, pal-metto palm, coconut palm and pimento. Ferns grow almost eve-
terms of endemic plant life. The place lies in the Atlantic hurri-
The shirt will be deposited in the garden of a town house.
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35°50’49.89’’N - 52° 2’52.90’’E2195 m.a.s.l.
Polur, IR
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The locality lies on the foot of a dormant volcano; it 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 sha-dow. 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 valleys. There is gra-zing by sheep, goats and horses. The area is known to be stained
-tercup and irises are blossoming in springtime.
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48°33’1.66’’N - 71°39’9.97’’W85 m.a.s.l.
Alma, CA
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 crystal-line rocks and tabular outcrippings of sedimentaries. The shirt
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25°19’3.52’’N - 82°58’26.09’’E80 m.a.s.l.
Varanasi, IN
The destination lies on the banks of a river, where it makes sud-
forming a peculiar shape, symbolically described as a crescent -
nually replenish the soil. This sandy-silty loam area is seasonal-ly used to cultivate summer vegetables and melons. The locality is exposed to extreme climatic circumstances: the temperature in winter being around 0°, whereas summer brings temperatu-res around 45°C, monsoon rain and and an extreme dust and pollution level.
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66°9’6.12’’N - 18°54’33.84’’W03 m.a.s.l
Fjallabyggd, IS
surrounded by steep basalt mountains on three sides. The area -
rized by low-shrubs and dwarf-shrubs, sedges, grasses, mosses -
sion. The climate is polar oceanic. The coast remains ice-free through the winter despite its proximity to the Arctic. The shirt
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7° 5’3.00’’N - 38°37’8.03’’E1285 m.a.s.l.
Wondo Genet, ET
depression, bounded by steep escarpments. The locality lies in marshland with fresh water, geothermal springs or streams, la-kes and creeks. The formerly abundant, extensive and coherent primary forest is now partly fragmented. The soils are loamy-sandy textured and fertile. The general climate is tropical mon-
micro-climate.
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26°52’36.37’’N - 100°13’49.33’’E2394 m.a.s.l.
Lijiang, CA
Owing to its low latitude and high elevation, the area experien-ces 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 extraordinarily rich, as it is extensive rainforest mountains with more than 7000 endemic plant species and around 30 endangered animal 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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19°51’7.61’’N - 100°24’34.18’’W2600 m.a.s.l.
Tlalpujahua, MX
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
rain all year round. Geographically considered a highland area, with temperate highland valleys. The region is famous for being
on the trees in concentrations so dense that the weight of them can snap off branches.
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19°30’50.40’’S - 43°44’45.97’’W 694 m.a.s.l
Jaboticatubas, BR
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
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.
The plant belongs to the mallow family and is of the genus Gossypium, a
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.
allows humidity to be stored. Sweat can thus be absorbed and later washed
Cotton can absorb up to 20% vaporous humidity without feeling humid. It can
Cotton is resistant to sweat, bases, chemical cleaning but sensitive to concen-trated acids, strong exposure to light, steady temperature above 200°C and
elastic. Contact with steel and iron strapping can cause rust damage through
without feeling humid. The volume of cotton bales increases in 40 - 45% by
Textiles are conserved only under extremely rare and fortunate circumstances.
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
how textiles from just opened graves lost their bright colors within seconds,
One of the greatest threats to textiles is light. The worst damage is caused by
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rotation should be done seasonally - display your textile four months, and then
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 to form explosive mixtures with air. They are toxic or at least severely irritating to the
The ‘grey cloth’, woven cotton fabric in its loom-state, not only contains im-purities, including warp size, but requires further treatment in order to develop
desizing, scouring, bleaching, mercerizing, singeing, raising, calendaring,
impurities during chemical washing process, improving whiteness with oxidi-
sharp teeth to impart hairiness, softness and warmth, passing fabric between heated rollers to produce smooth, polished or embossed effect on one or both
Sources:
from ‘Industrial and Engineering Chmistry’, february 1955
Belgium nadine vzw, BrusselsBrazil Dorothee Depeauw, Mathias KooleCanada Majorie FortinChina Odile Baurens,
Ethiopia Mercy Kebede,
South-Korea Ji Kanghun
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