3 137 announces their campaign on Kickstarter for the research & production on an Anti-Fashion Show

Join 3 137 & HSC art collectives to raise a critical discourse around nationalism marking the 200th anniversary of the Greek revolution.

3 137 invites the Berlin-based artistic collective Honey-Suckle Company (HSC) to reimagine, comment, and renegotiate the national identity discourse about the 200th anniversary of the revolution war for Greek Independence. On this occasion, HSC will transform the 3 137 exhibition space into an avant garde high fashion couture window and catwalk inspired by Greek folk costumes of the 1821 era. The surreal mannequins come to life and the clothing is dressed with futuristic sounds. We want you to join us in realizing this multimedia performative event and installation that will take form and enter the Athenian public space, during spring 2021.

HSC will explore topics including the symbolic loading and unloading of clothing and uniforms and the body as the last border. Following the collective’s participation at Berlin’s ffwd “I love fashion” and their spatial installation “Jil Sander and emotional economic observations”, HSC envision an installation in the windows of the 3 137 space, visible to both the audience and casual passerby. The display will range from fabrics to mannequins, from couture fragments to fictitious projects and from fragrance to sound. The attire of the fashion show, consists of recession age clothing and couture fragments.

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3 137:
3 137, an artist-run space based in Exarchia, Athens was founded in 2012 by visual artists Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Kosmas Nikolaou, and Paky Vlassopoulou (all SNF ARTWORKS Fellows 2018) .

3 137’s program develops through research with the purpose to capture and promote the artistic scene of Greece, to highlight selective affinities with other countries and to advance the discourse on identity and history. The initiative aims to create a meeting point for exchange and discussion and to facilitate an artistic and non-artistic community that suggests another way of doing and experiencing art. The emphasis of 3 137 is on collaboration, hospitality and hybrid forms of being together, through exhibitions, talks, radio programs, screenings, performances and educational workshops.

Honey-Suckle Company:
Honey-Suckle Company, founded in 1994 in Berlin, is an artistic movement currently consisting of Petr Step Kisur, Nina Rhode and Eleni Poulou. The group is influenced by and experiments with photography, music, fashion, film and sculpture. The collective balances between being an underground left-field cult and a commercial artistic project. The group is inspired and bound together by their shared belief in alternative medicine homeopathy. They have exhibited widely including at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Berlin Biennial. Recently a 25-year retrospective of Honey-Suckle Company’s practice entitled “Omnibus” took place at ICA London.