A site-specific fashion happening, installation and performance incorporating the voice of Vito Acconci, House of Diehl captures a moment through high fashion and gives it away. Performed with the JVA Flag Corps, choreographed by Vanessa Walters.

With the runway operating as a canvas, stage and catwalk, traditional limits between audience and performers are dissolved as attendees squat below the hulk of an exploded airplane to fill in the runway's open statement with their own assertions of hot and not. MJ poses in a human dress and walks the red runway. The JVA dance an exuberant routine. The soles of their feet are covered in rubber stamps that imprint a pattern on the catwalk. The socially generated textile is immediately recontextualized as clothing in the fashion world as t-shirts. The mood is one of amplification, congregation and celebration.

Produced in tandem with Nancy Rubins and Denial is a River, Mass <-> Production: The Quantity Theory of Celebrity creates a dialogue with SculptureCenter's space and exhibitions in the language of House of Diehl's generous production of fashion.— S Basta

Thanks to Vito Acconci, Sarina Basta, Katie Farrell, the JVA Flag Corp, Lauren Engler, Liam O'Brien, Erika Furey, Vanessa Walters.