My first consideration for this project is creating an experimental glitch film that features my functional/wearable art in action, art inspired by the aesthetics and consciousness of the hardcore/alternative community. In spite of members being distinguished by distinctive visual characteristics such as dark color choices, bolder hairstyles, etc, the hardcore community - as with other subcultures such as goth, punk, etc. - is a music and ideology-based subculture that follows a particular genre-defining style and leftist, anti-capitalist ideals. Many hardcore people are activists who rally for causes such as racism, sexism, and environmental justice. This community is also commonly composed of neurodivergent, lower-income youth, who often rely on self-medication through addictive practices such as smoking/vaping. The waste that is generated from this practice, though sometimes helpful for people that don’t have immediate access to healthcare, is an example of individuals inadvertently contributing to causes they are against - such as waste production. This is not a critique of those who do smoke, but instead an observation of dichotomies present in intimate, change-seeking groups as is the case of all humans who live on Earth and thus contribute to environmental degradation, no matter how small the impact and as they work towards resolving these issues. We may all contribute to waste, but we all have the ability to make a difference by confronting groups that disproportionately harm the environment.
The art pieces themselves will punk/hardcore/club kid-inspired fashion wear constructed out of people’s discarded smoking paraphernalia, in the tradition of the community (whose style is born from members being resourceful with old/secondhand clothing, dyeing things black for versatility, mending clothes with safety pins/stitches, and rejecting conformity though avant-garde personal expression). By using trash/found material, I divert their presence in landfills by instilling purpose into the durability of manmade-waste and products.
Upon constructing and wearing this found-object fashion, I'd like to employ our experimental glitch techniques in a short film that celebrates the creative chaos and diversity of hardcore and clubkid-core by creating intensive sounds, color-grading, and distortion of my figure to capture the fast-paced layering patterns and grimminess signature of the punk music genre. I'd like to include the poster art for hardcore/clubkid shows that are always hand-drawn/handmade by a community member and animate them in a ferocious manner to explore the beauty of creating musical art that is freeing to listeners in a demented nature. As a person with synesthesia, much of the glitch art that we've created for class sounds similar to hardcore punk and club music that exists in real life (see the glitch video in the Audacity glitch quiz). I'd like to continue employing found object by using trash such as foil, shiny wrappers, broken wires, etc. to add more aesthetic touches in cohesion with the environmental vision.
As a fashion, avant-garde, camp, makeup, and hard-core lover, I'd like to employ the aesthetic characteristics from each of these groups and combine them with my other artistic work of creating monstrous figures. I hope to find the beauty of demented, glitched digital with this project.
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