PORTAL 006 Reader

This reader is a product of the PORTAL 006 classes that took place at Comenius Lyceum, a high school in Amsterdam Nieuw-West, in fall 2020. Elisa van Joolen initiated this new edition of PORTAL (2017-ongoing) for the exhibition ‘Refresh Amsterdam’ at Amsterdam Museum in collaboration with de Appel. This edition was made with group 2 students (12–14 years old) as part of ‘Kunstklassen’, an arts education programme organised by de Appel and Comenius Lyceum.The publication shows a trail of connections between personal, economic, social, cultural and political values of the garments worn by Comenius Lyceum students.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