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, nationality, gender, sexuality 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. It means you have the feet in different worlds, can move between them but feel rather at home in that space in between. You've stepped out of your comfort zone and have become one of the new identities where ol' categories are mashed up and rootlessness and non-given identity just means major possibilities.
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 Oscar Stenberg - Web, Photography Linn Marcusson - Writer, Style Assistant (Gypsie's Mega Trip) Spoek Mathambo - (the Zombo Blog) Alex Dabo - ( the Do The Dabo Blog)
GOSH, the libary was closed and I can't work in my studio today so now I'm sitting in a Café on South Side and I'm totally scared to death. I've been scared of this Café sect forever (read: Yngves-tiden om du är från LKPG) and now they're playing Shout Out Louds and I'm too afraid to drink my coffee cuz I think it might turn me into Hank Moody, Bret Easton Ellis, Martin Kellerman or any other nice, unnice, cultivated, dysfunctional asshole. And if I won't become one of them I will most certainly turn into the white middle-(cl)assy asshole I should have been, start to like "difficult" poetry and forget all about intersectional perspectives. Ok, I'm outta here now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why hasn't anyone told me about this movie before? FUCKING AMAZING!!! Watch it on SVTPLAY or download it HERE for english subtitles. (The director Stina Berglund realeased the movie both in cinemas and on The Pirate Bay.)
In times when everybody seems to look at the past for something new and retro is synonymous to fresh, it does feel pretty delightful to see ADAM NEATE's work that isn't looking back. Oh well there are some Surrealism, some Picasso and Francis Bacon in the mix but in a new way, I mean, just to be able to make 3D beautiful is a skill! And it gets better when you hear the whole story; He gave away works to friends, was so productive he instead started leaving them outside the charity shops as a donation. He found out that they were not being sold, instead thrown away with the garbage, which made him leave them in the streets instead, imagine what an open exhibition! During a five year period, Adam Neate left thousands of his works in LDN streets!
"The whole concept of the free art thing was challenging the notion of art as a commodity and its worth in society. Now I’m taking that to another level, testing the viability of separating art from commerce."
Some of his works can be seen along many great things at the ARTHK11 in HONG KONG, read more here.
I've been so damnproud forthepast few days.I'msurroundedby multi-talentedpeople. Don't think I've been thisproudsincewewon theleague(show jumping) in 2002. Andthere'renotmanythings thatcanmakemefeelthat MEGA AWESOMENESS feeling thatmyformerhorse's life gaveme. First P3 GULD. The choreography our own 2faced1 superhero Decida made for Robyn's performance was fucking great!!! And then GULDBAGGEGALAN. Fantastic Ina Holmqvist and Emelie Wallgren was one of thethreenomineesforbestdocumentary and their move "SÅ NÄRA" is now shown at the cinema!!!! RAVE RAVE RAVE!!!!
...featuring the iconic actor UDO KIER by Kenny Scharf on the cover. Kier came into my world as "what is that old dude doing in Madonna's Deeper and Deeper video?!" - because I was to young to know better. Cause Kier not only looks like the Swedishs king's evil brother, he's one of FASSBINDER's favorite actors, been working with ANDY WARHOL (here comes the connection to Madge, "Deeper" is a homage to Warhol) LARS Von TRIER, is featured in the SEX book. AND did a unsurmised apperance in BARB WIRE with Pamala Andersson!!! I'd say a 2FACED1 m'fucker!
Check out the well-curated content like more iconic Scharf portraits, William Coupon's dito photographs of Miles Davis, Susan Sontag, Isaac Hayes, Arafat, Warhol, Miyahara's sculptures, dog portraits in the new edition of OMENhere.
Forget about the pseudo-shocking popstars, this is interesting for REAL! Die Antwoord is back to fuck our minds up! Don't underrate these people, Im curious to see where this art project is going! A must see which could be analyzed for hours. I'll start now.
UPDATE 20101011: Over at BOINGBOING Xeni Jardin tells the story behind the song (in the comments under the article) and Xhosa MC Wangas verse:
"So, the story behind this video and song (or part of the story -- there's so much going on!) is that Wanga felt that he was being coerced into a form of ritual circumcision by his community. It's sort of taken for granted within his ethnic group that you must do this, so much so that if you are a young man and you do not participate, you are ostracized, as the band explained to me.
The thinking, and this is communicated very directly to the young men, is that if you don't participate, you're gay. You're effeminate. You're not a real man. You never mature from being a boy to being a man.
He struggled with all of this in real life: with what it meant for his personal and cultural identity. And he came to a point where he was like, you know what? Fuck you all. The fact that I won't consent to having my penis sliced with an unsterilized knife, out in the bush, and risk infection or worse-- that doesn't mean "I'm gay," as you say. I reject this tradition. If that's what being a man is, fuck it, I don't want to be a man. I'll be an "evil boy for life," even if it means I am ostracized from my community.
You might have chosen different lyrics, but dude, it's not our story or our culture or our world experience at all.
It's his"
- go there to read more interessting comments about the video!
