VISUAL DIARY
RALF DEN HAAN
PERSONAL HYGIENE IN PUBLIC
INTERVENTION 2
WALKING THROUGH ROTTERDAM IN A ROBE
After a long brainstorm (with pizza for lunch) with the group we decided to do something with the water fountains we saw in 'de koopgoot', We bought some shampoo, a face mask and a towel at the HEMA and went straight to the fountains.
We chose the subject 'bathing / personal hygiene' because it's something everybody (hopefully) focusses on everyday. In some cultures bathing in public is accepted. And you are not doing anything wrong. People might think you're weird but my hair / teeth were extra fresh that day
Responses
INTERVENTION 1
As a response to our previous intervention we wanted to try walking around in a bathrobe in the morning.
We got a lot of different responses to the intervention itself. some people just stare at you and walk by but also a fair amount stops to take a picture or make a video of you washing your hair.
"I think it’s out of envy, people dissaprove of the outfit because they are forced to wear a suit / shirt to work"
Responses
"I think it’s more of an inside outfit for at home. At work you need to obey a dresscode and you need to be representative for the company"
"It would actually be lovely if I could wear this to work. It would also save a lot of money on suits or shirts."
THE NEXT STEP?
"I personally wouldn't mind of you would for instance brush your teeth in a public space. But if everyone would just wash themselves in the street that would be a bit too much"
RENATE
MARK
WORKSHOP 1
GABRIELLE
CHE GUEVARA TRUMP SHIRT
The original photograph of Che Guevara made by Alberto Korda. It was captured on March 5, 1960, in Havana, Cuba, at a memorial service for victims of the La Coubre explosion.
The original image, from which the popularized portrait was derived.By cropping out a palm tree and the pro le of another man, and making other slight adjustments, Korda gave Guevara's image "an ageless quality, divorced from the speci cs of time and place
The edited photograph of Che Guevara named “Guerrillero Heroico” meaning: Heroic Guerrilla Fighter
You can see that Korda cropped out the plants, put Che straight and added some grain and contrast so the photo would look sharper
ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH
EDITED PHOTOGRAPH
“I created this, now iconic, image in 1968 in a personal protest to the manner of his death and am proud of what it has become,” Fitzpatrick has written, also admitting to adding his own twist to Korda’s photograph – an ‘F’ on Guevara’s shoulder. The same year, the photograph was reportedly used by French students in the historic 1968 protests. He sold a fake Warhol painting of it to a gallery in Rome (complete with Fitzpatrick’s ‘F’), which Warhol himself authenticated so he would get the money from its sale.
FAKE WARHOL
In 1967, Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick was also using Korda's image as a basis for creating his own stylized posters. Fitzpatrick claims he received a copy of the photograph from the Dutch anarchist group "the Provos", who produced a magazine bearing the group's name. Fitzpatrick remembers that Provo magazine claimed the image originally came to Europe via Jean-Paul Sartre. Fitzpatrick's source of the image, then, would not have been Feltrinelli
ORIGINAL ROLL
Che’s image would go on to explode in popularity with a kind of pre-internet virality, becoming increasingly distant from its original context. As Trisha Ziff, producer of documentary Chevolution, put it, “We live in a culture today where understanding symbols doesn’t necessarily matter.”
This feeling was picked up on by artist Shepard Fairey, who, by 1997, was tapping into the way the real meaning behind Korda’s image had “already been really exploited to the point that (it had) become somewhat meaningless”, creating a version which featured Andre the Giant’s face instead of Guevara’s.
As Bob Marley’s face has ended up on an infinite amount of weed-related memorabilia, turning a legacy of music and anti-capitalist politics into stoner trinkets, in the years since the 1970s Guevara’s image has come to embody a style dubbed ‘terrorist chic’.
OTHER APPROPRIATIONS
WORKSHOP 2
Nowadays Che’s image is still used in many different ways. Donald Trump (Who was born on the same date as Che Guevara) got elected as president for the USA. "I think he's going to be the Che Guevara of deplorables," Comedian Bill Maher has declared during an interview with CNN last year, prior to Trump's victory in the US Presidential Election. Even though his comment was meant sarcastic the print from Jim Fitzpatrick evolved into a brand new appropriation. A fusion between the Communist (Che) and the Capitalist (Trump).
After wandering trough the internet I even found a different appropriation of this specific t-shirt. and thats not all... There are endless different appropriations of the Che Guevara print. Even one in a review on The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
DUBAI DERIVE
In the words of director Bruce LaBruce, whose 2004 film about a bumbling group of modern revolutionaries The Raspberry Reich features Che’s face adorning clothing and a giant mural – terrorist chic is “when somebody wears a Che Guevara t-shirt and they have absolutely no idea who Che Guevara is – emptying out the signifiers of radicalism and using them purely for fashion”.
Shifting his image from one of political meaning to one of fashion, Korda’s portrait has been sold on products by companies including Gap, Urban Outfitters, Belstaff, Vans, and apparently also Louis Vuitton – Elizabeth Hurley is reported to have been spotted with one of the house’s handbags featuring Guevara’s face. Chanel’s recent Cuba cruise show saw models don sequinned black berets, Che’s star replaced by the house’s ‘CC’ logo. But the most ubiquitous of all is the humble t-shirt – worn by the likes of Prince Harry, Johnny Depp and Jay Z, who raps on 2003’s Public Service Announcement, “I’m like Che Guevara with bling on”. With tongue-in-cheek contributions from the likes of Stüssy and Fuct, streetwear brands weren’t immune to the Che effect either, and, by 2006, the image was so ubiquitous that the V&A ran an exhibition of items it appeared on.
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BRITT
SPACE TRAVEL
SPECS FOR SMALL AND BIG SPREAD
TYPO GUIDE
OUR POSTER (SILKSCREEN NEXT STEP)
WORKSHOP 3