Jundan Chen

Jundan is a textile designer exploring the multifunctional possibilities of material surfaces and structure through process-driven design.

In 2020, Jundan graduated from London College of Fashion with a BA (Hons) in Fashion Textiles in Embroidery, where she explored a wide range of embroidery techniques and processes of analysis and synthesis towards traditional handicraft techniques. Reimagining and developing traditional craft techniques with modern technologies to create innovative surfaces results in a new crafted textile design.

During her studies at RCA, Jundan has continued to investigate the possibilities of wearing, the movement, and the change of her textile objects on the body. A theme of creating multifunctional textiles aims to engage and connect the wearer. The interaction of the textile builds a relationship with the wearers, which develops the awareness of sustainable lifestyle through connection with the textile.

How people put the textiles object on; how it shapes on the body and how the body moves would become the image of their own world.

The wearer is given responsibility for decisions regarding his own perception of the textile, which is an active process. Therefore, the development of textile objects is not only liberating, or raising awareness of the body, but also elaborating its state of being controlled and being released.

I am interested in the everyday sequences of movement and how artificial or manipulated patterns of behavior. In our age, our bodies' natural reflex to respond to rhythms and emotions has been inhibited, and as a result, our bodies' movement has been demoted and relegated to a tool of control and work. By trivializing the beauty of human movement and coordination in daily activities, we have now separated expressive and creative movement from daily experience.

Choreography is a developed method for exploring external powers controlling the physical, psychological, and spatial aspects of our actions. My aim is to develop textiles that represent a continuation of bodily movement, the expansion and enrichment of the body. People reflect on themselves through dance that engages the body in all its senses - the instrument of dance is the human body.

Dance occurs through purposefully selected and controlled rhythmic movements. The intimate connection between dance and scoring, or choreographing, exposes all of the commanding and imperative forces in choreography. Indeed, choreographic as a system of command, how do people reverse the obedience?

Movement Trace – -notations and movements

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Digital programmer: Junyu Luo

Shapes create by movement

outcome organza top, Polyester，Glass，Solder iron

Instruction of wearing

Instruction of buttoning – In this instruction only shows two ways of buttoning, more to explore...

Medium:

Polyester，Glass，Solder iron

Size:

200cm*60cm

People reflect on themselves through dance that engages the body in all its senses- the instrument of dance is the human body. Artificial, or manipulated patterns of movement. Developed the music sheet for movement, button holes represent music score and buttons are the notes.

Process & Primary research – -Photography, edited the photos become the continuation movement . Any movement creates invisible traces in the space that vanish almost instantly. The way I extend or shorten the timeline of video could create the rhythm of the movement. -Referring the dance notation system by Rudolf Laban , a scoring system he developed which represents movement in relation to space.

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Royal College of Art