S.U.F.I.
The S.U.F.I. project is developing different kinds of clothing to be used to commit suicide. All models are fully functioning. The suits are icons of the Post Digital era, and the result of a long cultural process. In this decade of the post-catastrophe it suddenly became possible to think of suicide as a phenomenon of fashion. Not the regular Parisian one, but the fashion of dying. The suits manifests - but also problematize this issue. Inspiration of the project is the increasing instrumentalizing of the suicide as tool and weapon within regional conflicts. It is both one of the most extreme tendencies of the last years as well as a sign of the apocalyptic mood that has marked this decade. The suicide bombers are the logo of the palestine-israelian conflict. Beyond pointing to how suicide is used as political weapon, the project focus on the aesthetical effects it creates. Manifestations of this are the aesthetization of death and sociopathic behavior. S.U.F.I. is therefore about phenomenon's like: -Post-human
ideals in the Post Digital era
Contact information: stahl@khm.de |
