Printer says NO!

2019 | performance (3 min.) | costumes

The performance was presented in the programme Clash House at Fashionclash Festival in Maastricht. The costumes were presented in a solo exhibition at Zinder Expo in Tiel. Since then, the performance evolved and took a new form as Plastic Shell, inner Printer.

Nowadays a lot of products are becoming increasingly smart. The way these products communicate with humans is very intricate. If we control our objects, nothing seems to be out of order, but as soon the objects start to disobey, people start having a feeling of unease with mix of suspicion. The object might be somehow alive. Error makes its character.

For the performance Printer says NO!, a series of broken printers have been stripped of its plastic covers to fit around the human body as a second shell. These printer costumes are designed to look like ordinary printers while sitting still. When the wearer starts to unfold, the printer comes to life.