In the mid-1960s Willats initiated the project ‘Multiple Clothing’, a series of interactive clothing, which he sporadically continued until 1998. For Casco ‘Self Expressions’, a clothing design from 1997, will be produced for the first time and will be worn by five performers in and around Utrecht city centre.
Multiple Clothing
Stephen Willats
Casco’s programme concentrates on the crossovers between the fields of art, design and theory, and the relationships of these fields to wider social, political and cultural contexts. In the early 1960s British artist Stephen Willats began situating his aritstic practice between the fields of art and design, calling himself a ‘conceptual designer’, and also began to take his work out of the gallery and into broader social contexts. For these projects he often employed the diagram as a tool to illustrate dynamic flows of information and relationships within social networks.