From 3-5 October 2019 I was led a ca 90 km walk from the village of Strodehne in Havelland to the Fashion Museum Meyenburg in the province of Prignitz. The walk was initiated in collaboration with Gabriele Konsor, Artistic Director of landmade.Kulturversorgungsraum in Strodehne. The walk was related to a landmade art project entitled Strodisign, that refers to the traditional ‘Kittelschürze’, a pinafore-style apron that was common among local women in the area. Its website states:

“In 2016, the traditional everyday village garment of the Kittelschuerze was converted into a new manifestation. The subject of this transformation is the apron, which embodies the cliché for the unique rural clothing and has a correspondingly polarizing effect: its opponents despise it as a feature of a backward (domestic) image of women, their advocates find it practical, enjoy their traditional/colourful patterns and their secret sensuality or they appreciate it, because it dresses the wearers like in a uniform. In the realisation of the project, the creative and technical forces of the whole village cooperated. This led to the development of the Strodisign Kittel.”

The project “Aufmarsch der Kittelfrauen” intended to build a long-term partnership, taking the previous ‘Strodisign’ project as a starting point.

For more information about this project, see here.