I had MANY thoughts, just dumping 'em here in the Open Thread:
-the opening pieces remind me of Cremaster: [https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=12c61c89bee275a3&q=matthew+barney+cremaster+cycle&uds=AOm0WdE2fekQnsyfYEw8JPYozOKzWPgJ8bmPurRhXWflOMhJR7eUu3ECyZY8xAvBnNurIvNv8RuGxorNuHt7x79zE2B_827WW5eVOexax_L1P_NVrgaVGbm36u_TrrXKP8FH4q1Cjmh4lkeu6BYPUO-4x2p4GDMQKu0T8_g--5oRn3QV6nspGYv1eXcuIItVTn-SceUdx9yIjgj9tqufSn8pTtTafJCyIg&udm=2&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi_9d2anYuQAxUHMNAFHTnaOuMQxKsJKAB6BAgcEAE&ictx=0&biw=1143&bih=511&dpr=1.65]
-I also thought that there was something of a utopia/dystopia impulse here that reminds me of Donna Harraway's Cyborg Manifesto, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cyborg_Manifesto,
-which is also conjoined to something I saw in the middling (but somehow highly regarded by critics) drama _Years and Years_: a near future in which kids (kind of raver-anime-but-without drugs) embrace a technologically modified body and mind, including a sort of cyber-projection that looks like a funny animal face that appears on an iphone filter: basically: an irl filter . . . and this is both utopic and dystopic, in my mind--personally, it all comes too close to transhumanism, which is obvi fascist . . . all to say: I'm interested in how Wun's gestures are like this kind of forward thinking!
-and then, in a more utopic way, I thought about the extensions of kinship implied by this book:
https://actionbooks.org/andra-rotaru-lemur/
-finally!
Loulou and I wondered about what components of these sculptural sartorial moves would be dumbed down for mass consumption--
the shoes? purses that have arms? Lou says dramatic hats that match coats will be IN next year
. . . by sheer coincidence, I have lately had a craving for (might really buy such an object) a black trenchcoat--?
Emily!
ReplyDeleteI'm crazy for it. My god. It's blowing my mind.
I had MANY thoughts, just dumping 'em here in the Open Thread:
-the opening pieces remind me of Cremaster:
[https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=12c61c89bee275a3&q=matthew+barney+cremaster+cycle&uds=AOm0WdE2fekQnsyfYEw8JPYozOKzWPgJ8bmPurRhXWflOMhJR7eUu3ECyZY8xAvBnNurIvNv8RuGxorNuHt7x79zE2B_827WW5eVOexax_L1P_NVrgaVGbm36u_TrrXKP8FH4q1Cjmh4lkeu6BYPUO-4x2p4GDMQKu0T8_g--5oRn3QV6nspGYv1eXcuIItVTn-SceUdx9yIjgj9tqufSn8pTtTafJCyIg&udm=2&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi_9d2anYuQAxUHMNAFHTnaOuMQxKsJKAB6BAgcEAE&ictx=0&biw=1143&bih=511&dpr=1.65]
-I also thought that there was something of a utopia/dystopia impulse here that reminds me of Donna Harraway's Cyborg Manifesto,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cyborg_Manifesto,
-which is also conjoined to something I saw in the middling (but somehow highly regarded by critics) drama _Years and Years_: a near future in which kids (kind of raver-anime-but-without drugs) embrace a technologically modified body and mind, including a sort of cyber-projection that looks like a funny animal face that appears on an iphone filter: basically: an irl filter . . . and this is both utopic and dystopic, in my mind--personally, it all comes too close to transhumanism, which is obvi fascist . . . all to say: I'm interested in how Wun's gestures are like this kind of forward thinking!
-and then, in a more utopic way, I thought about the extensions of kinship implied by this book:
https://actionbooks.org/andra-rotaru-lemur/
-finally!
Loulou and I wondered about what components of these sculptural sartorial moves would be dumbed down for mass consumption--
the shoes?
purses that have arms?
Lou says dramatic hats that match coats will be IN next year
. . . by sheer coincidence, I have lately had a craving for (might really buy such an object) a black trenchcoat--?
Love this. I predict organic staining reminiscent of contagion. Like a messy tie dye: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/448108231694857377/.
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