The vilting project groeide uit mijn eigen onderzoek en ervaringen met haar.
Ik vroeg me af wat er met je haar gebeurt eens je de kappersstoel verlaat.
Het antwoord was teleurstellend, het haar gaat rechtstreeks de vuilnisbak in. Klaar om opgehaald te worden door IVAGO.
Met dit project probeer ik rond de duurzaamheid van onze haren te werken.
Het haar krijgt een 2e leven.
Dit aan de hand van vilt workshops en een lichaamsinstallatie.
Hair.
An extension of our skin.
We lose hundreds of hairs a day,
we cut them,
we share them,
we expose them,
we abhor them,
we are ashamed of their absence or excess.
Many sources say that during the pandemic we became more attentive to our surroundings. When we lack physical contact, the feeling of human hair in our environment shifts attention toward the memory of someone's absence/presence.
Silke Gerinckx in her performance practice works with the phenomenon of repulsion.
By questioning absurd images, humour, and creating tensions bordering on intimate revulsion, she connects the experience of abject giving them an aesthetic form.
The experience of the abject - following Julia Kristeva's terminology, is an uncanny point of observation of rejection while simultaneously being fascinated. Silke's performative installation invites passersby to immerse themselves in a hair’s creek and in a shared ritual which she navigates. The spectator is therefore both a witness and a participant in the romantic act, which is performed by physically connecting, mixing people's DNA and exhibiting them. In this suspended moment, a space emerges to explore the intimate moments of repulsion, where boundaries begin to fracture, where people are confronted with an archaic space in front of such linguistic binaries as self/other or subject/object.
Ik vroeg me af wat er met je haar gebeurt eens je de kappersstoel verlaat.
Het antwoord was teleurstellend, het haar gaat rechtstreeks de vuilnisbak in. Klaar om opgehaald te worden door IVAGO.
Met dit project probeer ik rond de duurzaamheid van onze haren te werken.
Het haar krijgt een 2e leven.
Dit aan de hand van vilt workshops en een lichaamsinstallatie.
Hair.
An extension of our skin.
We lose hundreds of hairs a day,
we cut them,
we share them,
we expose them,
we abhor them,
we are ashamed of their absence or excess.
Many sources say that during the pandemic we became more attentive to our surroundings. When we lack physical contact, the feeling of human hair in our environment shifts attention toward the memory of someone's absence/presence.
Silke Gerinckx in her performance practice works with the phenomenon of repulsion.
By questioning absurd images, humour, and creating tensions bordering on intimate revulsion, she connects the experience of abject giving them an aesthetic form.
The experience of the abject - following Julia Kristeva's terminology, is an uncanny point of observation of rejection while simultaneously being fascinated. Silke's performative installation invites passersby to immerse themselves in a hair’s creek and in a shared ritual which she navigates. The spectator is therefore both a witness and a participant in the romantic act, which is performed by physically connecting, mixing people's DNA and exhibiting them. In this suspended moment, a space emerges to explore the intimate moments of repulsion, where boundaries begin to fracture, where people are confronted with an archaic space in front of such linguistic binaries as self/other or subject/object.
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