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Part 1 of video triptych. Control My Bodiless Form is a video triptych melding Swedish folk music with stories from cyberspace. The three audio-visual pieces offer a satirical and absurd look at the numbness, joy, and horror that exists online. In July 2022, an anonymous survey was sent out via social media. It asked things like:

What’s the worst interaction you’ve had in cyberspace?

What’s the loveliest interaction you’ve had in cyberspace?

What do other people do on the internet that you find embarrassing?

What have you done on the internet that you regret?

For anyone who has been on the internet, this next part won’t be all that shocking. Responses were often long paragraphs, recounting experiences of grooming, doxxing, antisemitism, stalking, trolling, homophobia, racism, and self harm. There were also stories of finding community, inspiration, creativity, even romantic love. Stories of disassociation and apathy. The responses were woven into lyrics, and put to three pieces of music. The result is three audio-visual pieces, filled with the warmth of 20-layer harmonies, cow herding calls, organs, and accordions, as well as the menacing detachment of AI voices and Weircore aesthetics. A strange amalgamation of the natural and digital, examining what on earth is happening to us in cyberspace.

Part 3 of video triptych. Control My Bodiless Form is a video triptych melding Swedish folk music with stories from cyberspace. The three audio-visual pieces offer a satirical and absurd look at the numbness, joy, and horror that exists online. In July 2022, an anonymous survey was sent out via social media. It asked things like:

What’s the worst interaction you’ve had in cyberspace?

What’s the loveliest interaction you’ve had in cyberspace?

What do other people do on the internet that you find embarrassing?

What have you done on the internet that you regret?

For anyone who has been on the internet, this next part won’t be all that shocking. Responses were often long paragraphs, recounting experiences of grooming, doxxing, antisemitism, stalking, trolling, homophobia, racism, and self harm. There were also stories of finding community, inspiration, creativity, even romantic love. Stories of disassociation and apathy. The responses were woven into lyrics, and put to three pieces of music. The result is three audio-visual pieces, filled with the warmth of 20-layer harmonies, cow herding calls, organs, and accordions, as well as the menacing detachment of AI voices and Weircore aesthetics. A strange amalgamation of the natural and digital, examining what on earth is happening to us in cyberspace.

Part 2 of video triptych. Control My Bodiless Form is a video triptych melding Swedish folk music with stories from cyberspace. The three audio-visual pieces offer a satirical and absurd look at the numbness, joy, and horror that exists online. In July 2022, an anonymous survey was sent out via social media. It asked things like:

What’s the worst interaction you’ve had in cyberspace?

What’s the loveliest interaction you’ve had in cyberspace?

What do other people do on the internet that you find embarrassing?

What have you done on the internet that you regret?

For anyone who has been on the internet, this next part won’t be all that shocking. Responses were often long paragraphs, recounting experiences of grooming, doxxing, antisemitism, stalking, trolling, homophobia, racism, and self harm. There were also stories of finding community, inspiration, creativity, even romantic love. Stories of disassociation and apathy. The responses were woven into lyrics, and put to three pieces of music. The result is three audio-visual pieces, filled with the warmth of 20-layer harmonies, cow herding calls, organs, and accordions, as well as the menacing detachment of AI voices and Weircore aesthetics. A strange amalgamation of the natural and digital, examining what on earth is happening to us in cyberspace.

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Artist's statement: The starting point of my design was from the current situation of society (in my impression, today's society is a cold, indifferent one, full of isolation and self-absorption). For a society covered by the epidemic, it is more important for people to think about their own feelings and seek a connection between people, which is the key to our social freedom. This is the key to our social freedom. Compared to the freedom of conversation and interaction in the past, people seem to be missing a lot nowadays, so in the design process I focused on the change of social space between people.

As the design progressed, I placed the number of people on two people, such as couples, friends. (This group is not influenced by gender, sexual orientation). My focus is on the connection between them, the changing relationship, the interaction because I want the relationship between people to be a well-balanced, positive state of interconnection. So the development of my silhouette began to come from the linking of two pieces of clothing and the movement of the limbs in a layered relationship. These clothes that were originally worn by two people are now linked together, and as the two people wear them they learn about the effect of each other's movements on each other. Certainly, as one wears for the other, the different holes in the garment give the garment a different way of wearing and transform it into a new silhouette. One can feel how the other's silhouette changes on his or her own body, or in this case gives his or her own silhouette new possibilities. At the same time, such a silhouette advocates "Buy less and choose well", a silhouette with different kinds of wearing styles can greatly extend the wearing time of this silhouette and contributes to SLOW FASHION.

In the design process, there are some silhouettes where I have weakened the dividing lines and the whole pattern is formed by a single piece of fabric, which largely reduces the waste of fabric in the process of cutting, achieving ZERO waste and promoting sustainable development of the garment.

Regarding the target group of the clothes, I didn't consider the gender division because I focus on the people themselves, gender neutrality can express the connection between people well, so the clothes are suitable for all kinds of people to wear, and also for couples to wear together. The design of some of the bottoms was also chosen to connect the skirt and trousers, weakening the concept of gender.

I think the collection is designed with the aim of making society more connected and diverse by focusing more on the true freedom of connection between people.

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Artist's statement: The starting point of my design was from the current situation of society (in my impression, today's society is a cold, indifferent one, full of isolation and self-absorption). For a society covered by the epidemic, it is more important for people to think about their own feelings and seek a connection between people, which is the key to our social freedom. This is the key to our social freedom. Compared to the freedom of conversation and interaction in the past, people seem to be missing a lot nowadays, so in the design process I focused on the change of social space between people.

As the design progressed, I placed the number of people on two people, such as couples, friends. (This group is not influenced by gender, sexual orientation). My focus is on the connection between them, the changing relationship, the interaction because I want the relationship between people to be a well-balanced, positive state of interconnection. So the development of my silhouette began to come from the linking of two pieces of clothing and the movement of the limbs in a layered relationship. These clothes that were originally worn by two people are now linked together, and as the two people wear them they learn about the effect of each other's movements on each other. Certainly, as one wears for the other, the different holes in the garment give the garment a different way of wearing and transform it into a new silhouette. One can feel how the other's silhouette changes on his or her own body, or in this case gives his or her own silhouette new possibilities. At the same time, such a silhouette advocates "Buy less and choose well", a silhouette with different kinds of wearing styles can greatly extend the wearing time of this silhouette and contributes to SLOW FASHION.

In the design process, there are some silhouettes where I have weakened the dividing lines and the whole pattern is formed by a single piece of fabric, which largely reduces the waste of fabric in the process of cutting, achieving ZERO waste and promoting sustainable development of the garment.

Regarding the target group of the clothes, I didn't consider the gender division because I focus on the people themselves, gender neutrality can express the connection between people well, so the clothes are suitable for all kinds of people to wear, and also for couples to wear together. The design of some of the bottoms was also chosen to connect the skirt and trousers, weakening the concept of gender.

I think the collection is designed with the aim of making society more connected and diverse by focusing more on the true freedom of connection between people.