Jesse Darlin' [UK]
Title: I ONLY TAKE MY CLOTHES OFF FOR ART (1996/2008)
//THE INSTANT INTERACTIVE JESUS PROJECT (2008)
medium: installation: collage, screenprint on t-shirts// installation: digital projection on cardboard
Description:
"Inspired by the philosophies behind the open-source movement and DIY culture, The Instant Interactive Jesus Project is part of an ongoing research series exploring universal archetypes that live within us and around us. I wanted to open up, reclaim or hack the symbol of the cross, to allow intimacy and individual interpretation, to foster playful interactive discourse as a response to the frequent monopolization and colonialization of symbols within culture. I wanted to facilitate an exploration of the Jesus in all of us, to allow people of all faiths and genders to be Jesus, or to 'do Jesus', whatever that might mean -- opening up possibilities in spontaneous performance that is universally permissible -- not just reserved for for the artist/author or for the guardians of these symbols (i.e., the Church), but for everybody."
Jesse Darlin' used tools developed in collaboration with G.R.L. Graffiti Research Lab Vienna. This collaboration came out of the Drip Sessions, the analog equivalent of laser tag.
