*Baglady 2.0* is a performance with a customised electronic performance tool, a bag with an antenna and an embedded board, programmed for live wireless broadcasting sound, digital images [video] and text. This Data can also be mapped via GPS to the location where collection takes place.
In a recent article in Artforum, "Domesticity at War: Beatriz Colomina and Homi K Bhabha in Conversation" (Summer 2007, pp. 442-447), Colomina and Bhabha explore how the mediations of public and private in the context of war are domesticated and inform developments in fashion, design and architecture.
Once again sister0 emerges from the
undewater databasethis time as bag lady. She lives in the wreckage of
the new dark ages. In the true spirit of a
bricoleur she inherits neo-liberal capitalist waste and wanders through its discarded wardrobe thrown into the streets, transforms it and plays with it. But instead of collecting material items, she is a hunter-gatherer of ephemeral moments. She carries a bag with an antenne, and embedded board that catptures these and transmits this to a server...
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