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Tinder Touch

Project
with installation, drawings, textile, screen print, video and performance.

The project Tinder Touch is inspired on the way a Tinder fungi grows; a frayed underground network that may become noticeable when fruiting. I use this way of growing to make a work that infiltrates in peoples lives and make them performers in daily live. To create this situation I use their own familiar clothes and transform the clothes into a layer containing codes. The code gives people their place in a group, like the feathers of a bird.

I copy people’s favorite pieces of clothing in a fixed screen, a pencil grey fabric with a reflecting pattern. I created an uniform collection, but with very diverse forms. In this way I stimulated ideas about ‘propagation’. A new species to be recognized via its reflection at night and with flashlight.

Inspired on Thoreau, who wrote in his book Walden (1854) about his residence in a cottage in distant nature, I worked secluded in an installation during the project Tinder Touch. The detachable installation, which functioned as a map for the concept, was presented in four different art spaces. Entering the dark space via a nightingale floor you saw subtropical plants, graphical drawn, on a large scale. Video projections, portrays, in which people perform a primitive movement in there ‘new’ clothes. A sewing-machine with unraveled clothes and an archive of the stories connected to them. As with a tinder: a frayed underground network from which incidental a new fruit grows.