BULBO
The Clothes Shop was developed by the Tijuana collective Bulbo as an attempt to stimulate a collective creative experience about clothing worn in the Tijuana-San Diego region. The project involved the participation of a diverse group of people from varied professional backgrounds and different economic strata. It included a series of production workshops as well as the joint operation of exhibition spaces and clothing sales over a period of two months. The workshop was intended to serve as a platform for experimental aesthetic inquiry into the subject of clothing as a space in which to discuss the process and sites involved in the production, exhibition, and consumption of clothing. Bulbo inserted The Clothes Shop into formal and informal commercial venues, as well as in wholesale and retail sales centers in both cities (La Jolla and downtown Tijuana). They documented the experience live in real time with a webcam. Bulbo also edited a video that documented the process for television and Internet broadcast.
Curators: Osvaldo Sánchez and Tania Ragasol
Venues: Reception for Bulbo’s The Clothes Shop, Pomegranate, La Jolla, and Plaza Mundo Divertido, Tijuana
Acknowledgments
Co-participants
Alejandro Ruiz Barraza
Cleotilde Elena Valdez Cruz
Gabriel del Portillo Sánchez
Jorge Santana Villaseñor
María Yvonne Quiñónez Saucedo
Olga Lourdes de la Vega Cervantes
Sandra Renata Gómez Delgado
Advisors
Lídice Figueroa Lewis
Olga Sánchez de la Vega
Individuals acknowledgments
Marcos Martínez
Charles Glaubitz
Fidel Ledesma
Foy Jiménez
Gabriela Fuentes
Isabelle Wasserman
Jonás Benton
Olga Sánchez
Sandra Díaz
Alberto Hernández
Organizations
Tiendas La Parisina
Swap Meet Fundadores
Pomegranate