Owen, K and Owen, PB (2022) Sole-Zine Volumes 02-07 exhibited at the FTC FutureScan5: Conscious Communities Conference. FTC FutureScan5: Conscious Communities Conference, 1st Sep - 8th Sep 2022, University of Leeds. [Show/Exhibition]

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Abstract

FUTURESCAN 5 Sole-Zine Abstract - Kayla Owen & Paul Owen

Sneakers, trainers, kicks, webs, strides, soles, creps, beaters, trabs or trainees, whatever you call your footwear, there is a particular tribe who are obsessive about their footwear...

Sneaker enthusiasts are attached to their possessions unlike any other sub-culture. Obsession, Style, and Place is an ongoing project intended to highlight specific sub-groups who live significantly for sneakers. From the birth of the Terrace Casual, the unique seekers and the under-represented sectors born out of this culture. Emphasising this much-loved fashion area gives rise to the tribes and cohesive socio-groups who define and are defined by values and tensions around status, belonging and the need for individuality.

This research offers new insight from stories from the terraces, provides opportunity to view rare, original, and vintage sneakers that informed the birth of the Casuals in Liverpool, UK. To those who subscribe to the pimping up of their sneakers and those not yet heavily featured. Early and emerging research regarding the under-representation of ‘Restorers, Convertors and Customisers’ within the Sneakerhead community. Including the shortage of stories being told in terms of Menswear, it’s past, present, and future status contextualises and places the subject within arenas for larger debate, thus raising awareness, and bridging gaps within the field.

Item Type:	Show/Exhibition
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Sneaker; Subculture; Conscious; Communities; Material; Culture
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) N Fine Arts > N4390-5098 Exhibitions
Divisions:	Art and Design
Related URLs:	http://www.owenstudio.co.uk/
SWORD Depositor:	A Symplectic
Date Deposited:	03 Feb 2025 14:31
Last Modified:	03 Feb 2025 14:31
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/25465

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