PORTAL 005 Reader

This Portal 005 Reader is the result of the PORTAL 005 workshop that took place during the exhibition Don’t Feed the Monster! at Galleri F 15, Moss Norway. During this workshop, initiated by Elisa van Joolen, the economic, social and emotional value of clothing worn by visitors of the exhibition was collected and researched. This reader brings together the resulting data from the workshop along with the data from PORTAL 001, 002 and 004, connecting the answers and insights of a total of 362 participants.PORTAL is a research project that explores the economic, social and emotional value of clothing and offers a ‘way in’ to understanding garments from a multitude of overlapping and intersecting perspectives.For every edition, participants are asked to take off a garment, lay it down on a large Tyvek sheet, outline their garment with tape and answer a series of questions regarding its production (Where was it made?), materials (What is it made of?), ownership (Is it yours?) and value (How