- kind of stuck
- brainstorming with Alex
- resources, ideas:
- You can always start with the original Hungarian revolutionary cockades, 1848,
- – The Suffragatte rosettes and sashes, Britain, 1908-1910,
- – The Asafo flags, Fante communities, Ghana (textile flags)
- – The Neue Slowenische Kunst – NSK state in time (1992-present): Laibach, IRWIN, and the Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre. I find this one a remarkable example. The passports they issued were not merely theatrical props. NSK participants have reported cases of people using them to facilitate travel across borders. An invented political object entered real historial circumstances and acquired significance beyond the artist’s original proposition.
- – A Haitian Vodou drapo (ritual belonging): sacred textile flags decorated with thousands of sequins and beads. This is not primarly a national-political emblem. Its a different understanding of how textiles communicate belonging and how an object acquires significance through ceremonial use.
- – An idea: a cockade made from human hair; as a historical mourning jewellery. a fictional commemorative cockade, using hair to stablish a physical connection between a collective event and the bodies of those involved.
- – The remembrance poppy (already told you about this one): red paper poppies used to remember Britain during the First World War.
- ideas feedback from last time:
- virtue-signaling: high vis cockade
- remambrance: strands of hairs of my expat friends braided together, signifying new roots
- goals: doing more experiments, scaling up, something excessive, finding one aspect of the cockade to do it on
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