about 2faced1.com

2FACED1.com shows one persons two different faces in photos;

Persona 1:
WHAT YOU WANT TO BE
CONSIDERED AS

Persona 2:
WHAT YOU FEAR TO BE
CONSIDERED AS

This leads to a discussion about stereotypes and inner fears of getting misunderstood by the surroundings. Thoughts that every thinking modern day person does reflect upon. We're asking every day people from an innercity context where old categories as ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexuality and class are reassessed, why they choose to look like they do. We’re diggin' deep, peeling off garments, codes and attributes. We’re searching for transnational identities - is the conclusion that we choose whoever we want to be today?!

 

A 2FACED1 STATE OF MIND

A 2FACED1 is highly aware of existing stereotypes related to your own ethnicity, color, nationality, gender, sexual orientation and class. You’re trying to avoid them but sometimes also play with them to make people think twice about who you are. Two faced doesn’t mean anything negative here, it explains the double folded view you have on identity if you’re not the existing norm. Self awareness is a gift, because it also helps you to understand other peoples situations better. To be a 2FACED1 is to have the feet in different worlds, be able to move between them but feel rather at home in that space in between. You've stepped out of your comfort zone and has become one of the new identities where ol' categories are mashed up and rootlessness and non-given identity just means major possibilities.

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THE 2FACED1 NETWORK

2FACED1 is a state of mind, 2FACED1.com is a display-window for this mindset and the network of 2FACED1 includes all of you progressive non-stereotypes with a double perspective on identity .

 

2FACED1.com:

Decida -  Editor, Founder, Creative Director (Stockholm)
Oscar Stenberg - Web, Photography (Stockholm) 
Linn Marcusson - Writer, Style Assistant (Gypsie's Mega Trip) (Stockholm) 
Spoek Mathambo - (the Zombo Blog) (Johannesburg)
Alex Dabo - ( the Do The Dabo Blog) (Stockholm) 
Mira Bajagic - Event / Production (London)
Pernilla Philip -  Design (Amsterdam)

 

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THIS SITE LET YOU SEE THE WORLD
TROUGH A 2FACED1'S PERSPECTIVE!

 
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Beneath The Surface

Post date Wed 5 May 2010 11:07 AM

"Material Girl", "Holiday" and "Papa Don't Preach" may make you think of 80'ies bubblegum nonsense pop songs, but if you scratch on the surface it's possible to interpret them in a far more political way!!! Back in 2003 Andrew Chuter wrote this extremely intriguing article Consciense Pop in Cyclic, about how political activism in so called mainstream music often is overlooked(!). On Madonna:

"Working class, Marxist, and feminist themes abound in Madonna's music. "Papa Don't Preach" is an anti-patriarchal song about teenage pregnancy. "Holiday" campaigns for better working conditions "all across the world, in every nation". More philosophically "Material Girl", enthuses "we are living in a material world": this is Marx's basic contention, contrary to Hegel's Idealism, that it is the material and economic circumstances of people that determine their quality of life. "Express Yourself" brought feminism right into the bedroom, exhorting both men and women to escape the chains on their love lives, through open and honest discussion of our innermost thoughts and desires. This is truly liberatory, Dionysian music, as feminist author Camille Paglia has noted in several essays... 

"Music" a meta-song and homage to her craft, claims "music makes the people come together" music makes the bourgeoisie wanna rebel" - clearly indicating that music has the power to unite the masses against the ruling class."

 

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