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, 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.

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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
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)

 

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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

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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.

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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, running into unexpected people from Uppsala; Adiam, 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.

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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.

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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.

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The Loser

Post date Fri 17 Feb 2012 5:56 PM

No Grammis for us and the Call Your Girlfriend video. I hate to lose so I think it's fucked up. But had a good time hanging out with the crew. Got airtime though höhö, watch me applaud ALL nominated acts during the whole Grammis Award show, that camera stressed the hell out of me...And as I usually do, forget to take photos, below is the only photo I got, with da Nisse Executive Producer at Callboy during dinner. So maybe a Robyn fan or two can do a gif out of the footage, cause mama a.k.a. me had her make up on for once :D!!!

But to be honest I don't really feel like a loser, thanks to all the fans who have recreated the choreography and video, nothing can beat that!

 

Also: see Gnucci Bananas Grammis debut featuring the amazing hair do we created + Linn's two piece and skirt!

PS. More updates on American Grammy in a bit.

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You Want To Write Our Songs?

Post date Wed 8 Feb 2012 1:46 PM

... I can do the choreography...!

Photos: Saga Berlin

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The Local

Post date Thu 2 Feb 2012 9:00 AM

Got snapped by Danish Street Style blog the Locals on the run from the Back presentation.

Some glimpses of me below.

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A Photo of Highest Importance & a Sushi Roll with Mr Wang

Post date Sun 8 Jan 2012 6:09 AM

In my ranting over the radness in Alexander Wang ss 12 (and ditto for booking Odd Future for the after party) I mentioned some iconic Adidas releases and an old dress in a similar style I myself had back then. During my Christmas visit at mom's & pop's but I did find the old Right On Magazine from 1993 featuring a photo of the group Jomanda in the named Adidas dresses, it totally blew my mind back then! What I also found was a photo from the last year of junior high in my take of the RnB style popular during those years. I should add that following photo was taken for a catalog of everyone born the same year in the city of Uppsala (and went out to the same ones). Inasmuch this is before each and everyone are using the Internet, this photo was your only shoot, if you failed, you could just go and kill yourself. At least that's what it felt like.

Since I was fortunate to hang out and share some sushi rolls with the beautiful Mr Wang himself when in NYC in December I got to know he's a big fan of 90's RnB, came as as no surprise for the proficient!

Bookmark my hand on Selma's shoulder, very subtle but very important gesture in a catalog of the 90's.

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A Two-Faced-One Is A 2FACED1

Post date Thu 5 Jan 2012 10:46 PM

Photos: Scanpix

Having a chat with journalist Sara Ullberg at the news agency TT Spektra in November resulted in an interview appearing in several kind of different medias in Sweden. Metro did a short version that came to be only about working with Robyn - leaving everything else out (Stereotypophobia just as Occupy All Streets)... miles better when Auntie called from Dalarna and said it was a whole page in the local paper including the 2FACED1 part, and how she found it interesting what I was expressing. You know, when your mum have a hard time telling the extended family what it is you actually do... my family tree is not exactly full of people working in so called "creative fields" so to say. SvD also run the long version (click over there to read full version).

"- Mode har aldrig varit intressant för mig om det inte har haft ett sammanhang, säger hon.

Själv är hon klädd i skräddad herrkavaj, camouflagebyxor och metallicglänsande kängor, har pärlor i öronen och ett halsband med namnet Maria skrivet med arabiska bokstäver. Varje liten detalj är viktig, just nu är hon egentligen mer intresserad av den arabiska våren och Occupy Wall Street-rörelsen än av modebranschen.

Med Maria ”Decida” Wahlbergs eget språkbruk är hon en 2Faced1 - en människa som bryter mot stereotyperna, som har fler ansikten än det som omgivningen förväntar sig. När hon växte upp i Uppsala var hiphopen ett av de nav kring vilket hennes liv rörde sig, specialarbetet i nian skrev hon till exempel om Five Percent Nation*, en avknoppning av Nation of Islam

- Varför gjorde jag det? Jag är en vit tjej från Sverige - it doesn't make sense! Men jag tror att jag kände igen mig i grundelementet i hiphop, att man känner sig alienerad, att man inte hittar någon plattform som passar en."

And then the Intern proved what a PR-natural he is, once again perfect prao-timing. He got his name in the papers for the second time. Don't blame me if he turns out spoiled... and Alex's a smart ass too, strokes my ego the right way. Doesn't it look like spot on PR stunt to have a 15 year old saying "She's even cooler in real life"?!. Wow, clooose to disgusting!!!

Not fully satisfied with the headline "She's The Woman Behind Robyn's Style", but it works together with the text, where it's clearer how Robyn's style starts in Robyn. My job is just to emphasize my clients style. Call it Visual Psychology, or call it Stylosophy, but it couldn't start anywhere else than inside them cause if it did, then I wouldn't do my job right.

 

*At the moment, during the 90's very popular among some of my favorite rappers

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