Outfitumentary [still] 03 © K8Hardy courtesy of the artist, Hardy Studio, Picture Palace Pictures & looking in mirror.
Book tickets
The next MACK Cinema Club celebrates the release of K8 Hardy’s new book, Positions, with a special screening of Outfitumentary (2016), followed by a Q&A with London-based artist and curator Nina Manandhar.
Hardy’s Position Series (2007–12) uses photography to explore identity as performance and construction. Featuring Hardy, her sister and mannequins in eclectic clothes, wigs and makeup, the images suggest personas beyond normative categories of identity and gender expression. Darkroom interventions further expose the photograph as a deliberate construction rather than fixed truth.
Positions brings together all fifty photographs alongside previously unseen images, situating Hardy’s work within the DIY fashion, art and thrift scenes of queer subcultures in early 2000s New York. Through self-objectification, Hardy challenges the objectification of the female body, queers portraiture and questions exclusionary art institutions.
The event begins with a screening of Outfitumentary (2016). In 2001, Hardy began documenting her outfits on video. Over the following eleven years, until the camera broke, she captured her outfits and the act of outfitting on a fairly consistent, if not daily, basis.
Following the film, Hardy will be in conversation with London-based artist and curator Nina Manandhar.
Hardy’s Position Series (2007–12) uses photography to explore identity as performance and construction. Featuring Hardy, her sister and mannequins in eclectic clothes, wigs and makeup, the images suggest personas beyond normative categories of identity and gender expression. Darkroom interventions further expose the photograph as a deliberate construction rather than fixed truth.
Positions brings together all fifty photographs alongside previously unseen images, situating Hardy’s work within the DIY fashion, art and thrift scenes of queer subcultures in early 2000s New York. Through self-objectification, Hardy challenges the objectification of the female body, queers portraiture and questions exclusionary art institutions.
The event begins with a screening of Outfitumentary (2016). In 2001, Hardy began documenting her outfits on video. Over the following eleven years, until the camera broke, she captured her outfits and the act of outfitting on a fairly consistent, if not daily, basis.
Following the film, Hardy will be in conversation with London-based artist and curator Nina Manandhar.
Bios
K8 HARDY (b. 1977, Fort Worth, Texas) lives and works in New York. Hardy works across varied mediums, including video, photography, and sculpture. She is a founding member of the queer feminist journal and artist collective LTTR. Her work has been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, MoMA PS1, Higher Pictures, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, and Karma International, New York; Dallas Contemporary, Texas; and Tate Modern, London, and is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Nina Manandhar is a London based artist and curator working with photography, archives and participation. In her research led practice, Nina explores the relationship between place, style and identity. She is the author of What We Wore – A People’s History of British Style: a photographic documentary of street and subculture viewed through the lens of the people living it. She has presented projects at The Photographers’ Gallery, Wellcome Collection, RIBA, Tate and London Museum. She is Stage Two Lead on the Fashion Communication BA at Central Saint Martins.
Book tickets
Tue, 20 Oct 2026
Upper Gallery
06:30 pm
6:15pm
Doors open
6:30 – 8pm
Outfitumentary (2016)
Screening
8 – 8:30pm
K8 Hardy & Nina Manandhar
Conversation and Q&A
Ticket information
- All tickets that do not require ID (full price, disabled, income support) can be printed at home or stored in email
- For aged-based concession tickets (under 25, student) please bring relevant ID to collect at the front desk before the event.
Access information
Upper Gallery
- The Upper Gallery is situated on the first floor of the building. A wheelchair-accessible ramp to the Upper Gallery is available via Carlton House Terrace.
- We provide Sensory Maps and Large Print Guides, these can be found at the information & sales desk
- Free for visitors where ticket prices are a barrier, please email access@ica.art
- If you have other access requirements, need more info, or want to contact us, go to the Access Page
Members+ and all Patrons gain free entry to all cinema screenings, exhibitions, talks, and more.
Join today as a Member+ for £25/month.
K8 Hardy, Position Series #26, from Positions (MACK, 2026). Courtesy of the artist and MACK
K8 Hardy, Position Series #28, from Positions (MACK, 2026). Courtesy of the artist and MACK
K8 Hardy, Position Series #11, from Positions (MACK, 2026). Courtesy of the artist and MACK
