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= '''I WILL MAKE EIGHT HOURS OF MY PAST UNDONE.''' = | = '''I WILL MAKE EIGHT HOURS OF MY PAST UNDONE.''' = | ||
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''The aim of this project is to create a performance that will last for eight hours – the normalized span of a working day (at least in Western-European conceptions of employment). | |||
The performance refers to my personal past, working as a tailor for several studios and workshops. | The performance refers to my personal past, working as a tailor for several studios and workshops.'' | ||
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<br> | ''I will invest eight hours of labor in undoing my own work by taking apart a jacket that I have made myself (within more than 60 hours of handcrafting).'' | ||
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<br> | ''The performance should take place in a shop window.'' | ||
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The project poses questions of what it takes to undo or erase – what can possibly be undone through the process of taking apart and what new things, objects, ideas, feelings, memories, and values emerge from it? | The project poses questions of what it takes to undo or erase – what can possibly be undone through the process of taking apart and what new things, objects, ideas, feelings, memories, and values emerge from it? | ||
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And after the work is (un)done, we can think of the pricing. | And after the work is (un)done, we can think of the pricing. | ||
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= '''Performance Score''' = | = '''Performance Score''' = | ||
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[[File:sketch-performance-score.jpg|1200px]] | [[File:sketch-performance-score.jpg|1200px]] | ||
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== '''The Place:''' == | |||
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File:csm_ca20130704b003_9fe474a20e-1855787217.jpg | |||
File:kiosk_sophienstiftplatz.jpg | |||
File:Betriebsausflug01-1024x683-565998086.jpg | |||
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== '''Why Tears?''' == | |||
In tailoring, like in many artisan traditions, there are a lot of superstitions intertwined with the craft. They mostly connect with abjects of the body of the artisan, produced while working on a piece. For example: In Germany, when making a wedding dress, a drop of blood should be placed somewhere at the inlay - which is supposed to bring good luck and help for a happy marriage (it also used to symbolize bloodline and a mother's grieve, as the mother of a bride was supposed to sew her wedding dress). In France, unmarried embroiderers would sew in one of their own hair into a wedding dress, in order to be the next one to marry. | |||
I decided to create a new superstitious tradition, making use of my tears. By crying while opening the seams of my jacket, I can make the past undone. | |||
At the same time, the meanings of the tears - like those of the drop of blood - are manifold. They symbolize superstition, but the could also flow because of grieve, trauma, fear, melancholy, or relieve. They catalyze negative emotions and wash them out. | |||
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= Documentation of a first tryout = | |||
(taking apart a jacket that somebody else has made) | == (taking apart a jacket that somebody else has made) == | ||
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File:Insta_Story7.jpg | File:Insta_Story7.jpg | ||
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excerpts from instagram stories | |||
== excerpts from instagram stories == | |||
(for the first tryout I took apart a handcrafted jacket that somebody else has made (probably in a theatre/opera workshop) within 8 hours and documented the progress every hour with an instagram story) | (for the first tryout I took apart a handcrafted jacket that somebody else has made (probably in a theatre/opera workshop) within 8 hours and documented the progress every hour with an instagram story) | ||
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= References = | |||
Tehching Hsieh | Tehching Hsieh | ||
https://www.tehchinghsieh.net/ | https://www.tehchinghsieh.net/ | ||