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COMME des MARXITS -- White Columns, New York 2013 / Performa, 2013

KARL MARX

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marx SEX work

 

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NEW YORK, LOS ANGLES, ISTAMBUL, BUKAREST, CAIRO, TUNIS  ....  more boutiques opening in the near future

 

SEX WORK

Sex works everywhere. Sex work is a gigantic industry taking on all possible forms with tremendous consequences for sex workers. It is linked to the brutal world of drugs, human trafficking, organized crime, and money laundering as well as the vast worlds of poverty, abuse, addiction, and mental stress. It is more or less an uncontrolled economic sphere where shadow capitalism rules in its most brutal way including real human slavery, child work and blatant abuse of drugs, coercion and violence. Hence it is definitely something that deserves analytical reflecting. Sex as such, with or without much affection, is the most intense form of human interaction that can result in procreation and the spread of diseases. Sex and desires are powerful tools and forces that are not so easy to control originating in multiple cultural, biological and social strata. Hence, sex work is not much less complex and is derivative of our social psycho-economy mirroring partially our interactive economies.

For this sereis, I worked with silicon, felt and PVC letterings and stuff that oscillates between fetish and meaning. All these accessories could be applied to simple fabrics or pieces of fabrics on the body or even be placed directly on skin. The larger PVC letters spelling out the words DRUGS, MONEY, TRAFFIC,  etc. were hastily applied on some rather colorful knit works. Some of the laser cut felt letterings and logos were displayed together directly on the drawings of string based dressing ideas that would have been difficult to present without becoming complicit in catering to a scopic regime that rules sex work. One shouldn’t forget that displaying this series is difficult without playing right into the old scheme of human, mostly female objectification and representational exploitation.

 

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skirt: design help and production: Florentina Leitner;  Modelling: Isabell Lodge - texting: computer cut felt.

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marx $EX work

 

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marx SEX work, RED LIGHT MARX

a4 size

 

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marx SEX work, DRUGS

 

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marx SEX work, TRAFFIC

 

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marx SEX work, red light, red stars

 

 

 

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marx SEX work, INTERNET

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during a presentation the models will not expose any body parts and be covered by some black, red and/or yellow stocking like elastic underwea

 

marx SEX work - web cam,  accessories 

A BAG/BUNDLE WIHT 3 WEB CAMS - AND 2 HEADPHONES WIHT SPEAKERS. .(LEFT TO RIGHT)

TO BE WORN BY MODEL

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During the CAT WALK --  design assitance, interpretaion and production Elise Perrotta   ---  bu dresses will be modified

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Design assistance,interpretation and production: Elise Perrotta

(final look will be modified - we had no time to adjust it to my final ideas) , modeling: name to come

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Design assistance,interpretation and production: Elise Perrotta

(final look will be modified - we had no time to adjust it to my final ideas) , modeling: Emmerly

 

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Design assistance,interpretation and production: Elise Perrotta

(final look will be modified - we had no time to adjust it to my final ideas) , modeling: Isabell Lodge

 

 

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