connector (tool)
as frame

participation

ritual

empowerment

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playground

rules of game

daily objects as tools

right compromise between

too standardized to be free

and too free to still have a safe frame

interaction

body and object

movement

2 body and objects

Or
To turn it around
The textile is the connector,
the dissolver between the subject and the object

Participatory objects

modular systems is a way to engage with the objects in your surrounding, thus a way to reconnect with your environment, with you

an invitation to participation

textile becomes the membrane, the bridge

"The stance to materiality also remains the driving force behind humanity's attempts to transform the
world in order to make it accord with beliefs as to how the world should be."
- Daniel Miller

Ideally, fashion could be used to represent one's most true self as an aesthetic exterior to represent the person within. This process can be empowering.

how to participate objects via modular system

thread embodies the interaction, makes the exchange visible

communication with materiality

An attempt to get in contact with the objects around me and by that reconnect with my environment, reconnecting with my being in this environment

investigation - how do we define each other?

invitation

modular system as an attempt to overcome alienation from objects (meaning also alienation from us)

intimitate

eye-level

dialog

but unilateral?

Now personal practice but how to invite public?
How can someone else participate?
How can someone build on it?
How do I set the framework from my own experiences

opening it up

ready-mades

own playset

Celebration of things

In times objects are always at our service, it feels very intimate to start a dialog on eye-level with an object. Without afterthought, not aimed at function, I observe the exchange the found objects and myself start: I follow the invitation the voids in the ready-mades offer, allowing their properties inspire my activity. In turn, I leave traces by extending them, either with other objects or myself.

I am not interested in the object as an entity but the activity that arises from the pairing of a specific body with a specific object.

It is an invitation to an individual to start thinking with its hands again, allowing the materiality to become an equal counterpart in the process of form giving. It is a playful practice to learn to trust the potential and your intuition that arises from the exchange.