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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Until then;

Post date Sun 25 Nov 2012 12:12 AM

Photo from Mars 12...lobely shitrt by Lena Buss (order it on demand) Damir Doma pants I've gotten from him (they're the perfect black wide pants, now when slightly shorter). the photo object is tired as h e l l. She's thinking didn't DN learn a single thing out of the Lilla Hjärtat debate?

My soul is tired... But I'm back on it next week, playing records at El Perro Del Mar's concert here on Saturday! Aaaand before that Friday 30 th big party with adidas Originals + SnS, invitation in a mailbox if you been nice this year.

Until then: healing with some Kindness.

 

La Pedrera

Post date Mon 6 Aug 2012 6:45 PM

Randomly read an, not necessary to name, interior magazine one of the days on the beach. All white people in all white interiors - these magazines uncritically reproduce an upper-middle class dream that one are supposed to desire, to get "with the scheme". Since when did design get so brain dead? Thank god I took a trip to Gaudí's more than a hundred old buildings and remembered that you can dedicate yourself to any subject and do it the proper, progressive way (well it takes some genius to do it like the Gaudí...) - or just be a dumb ass.

ps. har ej kuk fast det så ser ut, dock väl stake som balls!

People In The Middle

Post date Mon 25 Jun 2012 5:57 PM

a. k. a. the good people a.k.a the 2FACED1s! But really physical location means nothng, maaany were missed this day! Löb U all - that goes for all the 2FACED1s I don't know too!

To be continued...

Sound Check

Post date Wed 30 May 2012 12:40 PM

Another Paris Trip

Post date Wed 23 May 2012 3:28 PM

- a proper update very soon, 2FACED1s!

Oh yes, photos from my Instagram, @decida

House of Gaultier

Post date Sun 15 Apr 2012 3:23 PM

Since our beloved Jean Paul Gaultier turns 60 this month Swedish radio program P1 Stil (P1 Style) made a special on him. This episode focus on JPG, his love for high art and pop culture high end and street wear, the life in between so to say like the 2FACED1 he is. And in the middle of this emininet special on fashion from a pop cultural perspective, yes you guessed it - 2FACED1 and yours truly, who feel very fortunate to be in such company! JPG made a MAJOR impact on me as a kiddo, and was definitely one of the main reasons I headed this way.

Above is me and the Rob at Jean Paul Gaultier's in Paris in Mars, where also his shows always takes place. We haven' met yet me and Jean-Paul. But JPG; we will! Since the radioshow is in Swedish I'ma go Swedish for a while, you Globalish got your google translate anyway, if you don't have anything better to do with your Sunday!

Det var faktiskt första gången jag själv lyssnade på P1 Stil, och jag gillade vad jag hörde. Förvisso var just detta program direkt riktat till någon som mig...huh! Jag har nog sagt det förut, men gud radio, alltså. Känns alltid tvådimentionellt för oss som jobbar med bild.... Och det här superkulturella samanhanget, som får stereotypofoben inuti 2FACED1:en att vakna till liv...hur många gånger säger jag "liksom"och "asså" "förståru", som om jag har tourettes bara för att jag är i P1! Och Linnpan, the Gypsie ringde direkt och klagade på att jag lät störig. Kan ju vara lätt kontraproduktivt att själv påtala att man egentligen är jättesnäll...men alltså hey jag ÄR! Mr Shamoun härjar alltid på samma sak när jag är på radio - att jag låter dryg.

Och jag skyller på vår kära Gränbyskolan där vi från Vattholma började 7:an, igen. Det var skolan där 9:orna spöade rektorn liksom, man var tvungen att äga upp, och då blir det såhär ibland...även väldigt långt efteråt haha! Mest otipppat med hela grejen är att jag och Anna som intervjuar mig inser att vi lirat fotboll mot varandra i mellanstadiet...vi hade ett mycket intressant samtal och pratade om saker jag inte pratat om på såååå många år som skillnaden mellan Storvereta och Vattholma på den tiden, skinnskallarna och blattarna, Vattholma/Gränby men det ska jag berätta mer om den dagen jag gör min egen 2FACED1...oi!

En detalj bara, jag började inte lyssna på musik i högstadiet, köpte ju Like A Virgin som sexåring för egna sparade kulor! Men framför allt fint med fokuset på 2FACED1, det är det allra viktigaste jag gör (don't get me wrong I do A LOT of important things :) ), och jag hoppas att några till fick en uppfattning om vad det handlar om.

///Decida

Seeing Signs

Post date Sun 25 Mar 2012 1:28 AM

The creative anguish. Station procrastination. Ställtid.

I'm in Hackney at the moment, preparing for a performance that I've created, it will take place in Selfridges on Tuesday. My own process has been viscious. Had problems with getting started. And then sitting on a bus, in front of me; as follows:

To read this right: i'm a) a Stagecoach, my lucky number is b) 8 and I'm in the process of putting the last hand on a show c) The Show of Shows. Only thing to do was to shut up and make them moves coming! (ps. wont bother about "Les Miserables")

I'm as jolly as always in LDN, but I can't belive I'm missing out on John Akomfrah in Stockholm (!) today, i CAN'T BELIVE IT, I just can't.

2012=1984

Post date Wed 21 Mar 2012 11:36 PM

While I was in London and spent a beautiful day with my Co-worker Jonas a.k.a. Oni, having meetings concerning a performance I'm putting together in Selfridges next week, receiving incredible great news, drinking Moët to celebrate, Sweden's government voted yes to the data-retention-direction, which basically means all info about your calls, texts, e-mail, data + your geographical position will be saved for over six months probably more starting the 1st of May. in other words all Swedes will have an electronic tag via the phone - like all of us are criminals.  1984 is here meine damen und herren.

We were supposed to defend Internet like a baby. Nurture not restrain. We didn't.

I'm not smiling now.

Team Beige

Post date Thu 15 Mar 2012 10:44 PM

There we found ourselves at the Kenzo f/w 12 show in Paris, all matched up in a bright color scale longing for the real spring. Not intentionally at all, and I'm honest. Like it wasn't enough with the two of us, Mr Combs himself suddenly appears in, yes you're right. ALL beige. Like it's not even enough with all of us three, next to him a person in hat and long coat - nearly identical to my own silhouette, minus the religious symbolic value that is. Some remember rapper Shyne, who's life took an other turn after the shooting incident also involving Diddy/J-Lo 10 years ago.

At the Kenzo front row: an unexpected quartet.

What Diddy tweeted you already know.

What was said I tell you another time.

Hangin Out Imaging...

Post date Wed 29 Feb 2012 11:59 AM

...it's spring, listening to MINT CONDITION REMIX wearing KRIS VAN ASSCHE x EASTPAK BAG, darkening that fashion can't be excluded from politics.