Dancing Red Slippers

PortIzmir 3, Izmir, 2014

Dancing Red Slippers were created as a series of six pairs of felt slippers as part of the Field Work component for Slow Design: Body / Clothing / Memory under the PORTIZMIR 3 Triennale. The red slipper design referred to the mythical story of Dancing Red Shoes in the book Women Running with Wolves, which emphasises the vital importance of handcraft and creativity for women's souls.

These six pairs were shared with craftswomen in the Urla Public Education Center, where Miné asked them to add their artisan abilities and redesign them, reflecting their own stories into the designs. All the women’s work, including the stories tagged to the products, alongside Miné’s own designs, were exhibited as part of the PortIzmir 3 Triennale in Turk-Austro Tobacco Warehouse in Pasaport (21 March - 21 June, 2014)

Read the Manifest by Miné Ovacık
Read the Stories by the participants
Read the Press Release by Yaşar University

Participants / Co-designers:
Aynur Uzal, Dilek Sayıner, Fatma Daysal, Gülay Güngör, Güler Daban, Meltem Tali, Nalan Bulakeri, Özlem Çetinkaya, Reyhan Gürcü, Reyhan Furuncuoğlu, Semra Yıldız, Sevil Yücesoy, Şerife Topaloğlu, Tijen Bayar, Yıldız Kortel (Felt Class Students) 

Miné collaborated with Şölen Kipöz and Oloop Design (Jasminka Fercek, Tjasa Bavcon and Katja Burger) for the Fieldwork Slow Design project.

Exhibition Photography by Mustafa Şenel
Photography for the Press Release by Yaşar University Media Relations Coordinatorship
PortIzmir organized by K2