Universally personal
Multitude of homes
Preinhabited
Disabled objects
Wardrobes full of holes
There’s no place like homes.
Conceptual fashion show, live hanging sculpture, strict choreography, ropes. 15-minute event with an after-party.
Authors: Saliva/Lukáš Hofmann.
IKEA is a carefully constructed environment, multitude of houses, a typical case of Baudrillard‘s theories of hyper-reality. We move through pre-inhabited spaces. We can feel the latent presence of the hand which has placed before us marks of expressions of emotions which evoke feelings of home. Cutlery in the drawers, books stacked up next to the bed, laptop on the desk, pots with rosemary, occasional toys strewn on the floor of the children‘s room, suits in the wardrobe. Upon closer inspection of the wardrobe we may discover that only the side of the clothes on the coat-rack facing our way is ok, while the other side has been defaced: we encounter holes randomly planted in metal, deliberate cuts and tears, missing sleeves and halves of pants. Is IKEA attempting to prevent potential thefts, or does this approach have some other foundation?
Saliva has noticed these mutilated pieces of clothing a decided to take them out of IKEA (lolz) in order to organize a fashion show, the format of which is an example of concentrated effort of teams of people who, in today‘s accelerated world of fashion, spend months working on projects resulting in a fleeting fifteen-minute long explosion of energy.
The artist has put together a group of people with similar worldview and aesthetics and the „I“ became „us“. This clothing as a statement of opposition against this simulacral environment. Not through overbrash editing or cutting (in fact, the clothing had already been „re-designed“ by the IKEA employees), but by the means of innovative styling.
All that has already been said is actually the point of creation and the rest is artistic licence: demonstration of flight safety which stems from fascination by rigid choreography, shoes as sculptures, hanging body just for lolz.
