SUDESTADA
SUDESTADA

MAY 1 - MAY 10, 2026

BROOKLYN, NY

A collaboration between SUDESTADA and Parsons School of Design MFA Fashion Studies.
Marking the first off-campus exhibition organized by the Parsons Fashion Design department in over ten years, we are excited to present "Punk Politics / Camp Costuming", an exhibition entirely conceptualized, curated, designed, and produced by students from the Parsons MFA Fashion Curation class led by Jessica Glasscock.

Rooted in the visual and political histories of 1970s London and New York, the exhibition explored how punk and camp operate as distinct yet interconnected strategies of resistance through dress, performance, craft, and image-making. While punk confronts systems directly through DIY construction, distressed materials, and confrontational text, camp destabilizes norms through exaggeration, theatricality, stylization, and coded expressions of identity. Together, both frameworks position clothing as a site of protest, transformation, and cultural negotiation.

Across garments, textiles, photography, accessories, installation, and graphic materials, the exhibition examined the body as a space where politics, identity, and self-fashioning converge. Thematic vignettes brought together works investigating text as protest, silhouette as performance, and the tension between restriction and freedom embedded within dress.

Discover the pieces

Throughout the exhibition, public programming expands the themes of Punk Politics / Camp Costuming into an afternoon of lived and participatory experiences on Saturday, May 9th, including:

  • Button and patch-making station beginning at 1pm
— La Sudestada
  • Artists talk with Sam Lambert and Shaka Maidoh of Art Comes First at 4pm
  • Live music performances by Sum and Cellie at 6pm
— La Sudestada

Parsons School of Design MFA Fashion Studies Team 

Ella Birney - Lead Curator • Dulcinea Flores - Curator • Allison Framando - Curator • Pierre Sanon - Lead Exhibition Designer • Eliana Daneshvari - Exhibition Designer • Reilly Lowell - Editor • Leonie Soravia - Project Manager • Jess Gayo - Researcher/ Writer • Joyce Gayo - Researcher/ Writer • Maria Magdalena Ugarte Montero - Researcher/ Writer • Cassidy Colarik - Press Officer • Shlevy Shovein - Educator • Sarah Mahnke-Baum - Educator • Tinidy Coleman - Graphic Designer

Project website: www.punkxcamp.com

The exhibition is sponsored by Parsons School of Design’s Fashion Studies master’s program.