Fashion Salon

In Berlin, it seems to be an ongoing tradition to give out old clothes and textiles “zu verschenken”. At any given time, we find random pieces of used fabrics lying in the streets simply for other people to pick up. Could there be more possibilities to bring this rather opaque give and take process into a more imaginative social space? How can we repurpose this mundane process of giving out our private old stuff to new realms?

In this experimental salon, Pepe Dayaw combines playful techniques with re-treating fabrics and his research in performance and theatre making to facilitate a space for re-imagining what our old clothes could become.

Join us and bring your old clothes and fabrics that you wish to give away.

Pepe Dayaw  moved to Europe in 2010, and since has been fashioning autofictional performances departing from an original and fluid perspective of a Filipino queer migrant subject. In 2012, Dayaw started a series of leftover dinners in private homes in Madrid, creating impromptu meals out of food found in refrigerators and pantries and what the guests brought. In 2013, Dayaw moved to Berlin and continued to perform cooking (with what is there) as Nowhere Kitchen and ended up travelling to four continents. Working with and queering themes of nostalgia, home, memory and embodiment, they blend folklores; primarily using the arts of flavour, movements, music and critical hospitality to craft stories by way of improvised scores and unusual scenarios. Alongside independently developing their own vocabulary of dance and ethics of movement, Pepe is a textile/fashion/costume maker, author and a karaoke bred amateur singer.