about

        
The world is a verb is an ongoing project by visual artist and writer Vibeke Mascini in which pieces of used clothing are re-imagined by turning them inside out and sewing additional labels within their seams. A series of t-shirts are this way made to be a walking publication.

The labels hold micro essays, stories, poems and recipes regarding the transference and metamorphoses between matter, energy, language and memory.

Besides texts from a forthcoming publication each edition of shirts holds writings by different invited artists and writers who each have their own relation and response to the thematics. So far contributors to the project include: Chaveli Sifre, Daisy Hildyard, Laurie Anderson, Mihnea Mircan, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Zazie Stevens, Anna Colin, Kate Briggs and Tristan Garcia.

The labels are designed by Dongyoung Lee.

The shirts had a previous life and were selected from second hand markets and stores in Amsterdam, Budapest, Guatemala City and Brussels.

For edition 1 and 2 the title embroidered on
its chest is set in Dove’s type, which was recovered from river Thames after nearly a century underwater.
For edition 3 the title embroidered on
its chest is designed by Sam de Groot and set in Job Clarendon. 

          

For questions related to the project or orders please contact:

theworldisaverb@gmail.com

    
parttakers:

Vibeke Mascini

Dongyoung Lee

edition 1
No.1 - No.20

Laurie Anderson

Mihnea Mircan

Robin Wall Kimmerer

RADIUS CCA

edition 2
No.21 - No.43

Chaveli Sifre

Daisy Hildyard

Zazie Stevens

edition 3 (French edition Le monde est un verbe)
No.44 - No.74

Anna Colin

Kate Briggs

Tristan Garcia

Sam de Groot 

CAPC Bordeaux

edition 4 (forthcoming Spanish edition El mundo es un verbo):
No. ... - No. ...

Daniel de Paula

Diana Cantarey

Edgar Calel

Leonardo Choxom

...others still to be confirmed