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| Newo |
Posted - 09/20/2005 : 04:39:22
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Ralph Borland Photographs by Pieter Hugo
Suited for Subversion, 2002
Nylon-reinforced PVC, denim, padding, speaker, pulse-reader, circuitry
Edition of 3
Suited for Subversion is a project to create a suit that protects the wearer at large-scale street protests. The suit also monitors the wearer's pulse and projects an amplified heartbeat out of a speaker in the chest of the suit.
I designed and fabricated the first prototype of the suit as part of my Masters Degree in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. The project draws on my work as an activist involved in street demonstrations in New York, and is influenced by the work of other activists and demonstrators who wear protective clothing and make creative use of tools and technologies for protest.
Of particular influence are the 'white' or ‘white overall’ tactics of the Ya Basta, WOMBLES, or the Tutti bianche, who wear white protective-wear to protests. Like the Pret a revolter clothing line produced by my friends Las Agencias, and pictured below, centre, my suit fuses white tactics with more playful, carnivalesque, or 'pink' tactics. As much as my suit is armour, it is also disarming; as much provocation as protection.
Suited for Subversion is part of the exhibition SAFE: Design Takes on Risk at the New York Museum of Modern Art in 2005/2006.
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| KimStanleyRobinson |
Posted - 09/21/2005 : 00:55:34
just turn to the right real quick.
er hell, just bend down and ram em...and make like a big stupid sound like a car engine or something...and then a crashing sound when you hit them... |
| darwin |
Posted - 09/21/2005 : 00:50:09
Seems to me that you're a sitting duck if someone wants to punch you in the face. |
| KimStanleyRobinson |
Posted - 09/20/2005 : 23:19:00
i would fuck shit up in that.
...and do my best not to be all totally ...whatever in the hell it is I am...too something.
Gonna try to not be that.
I think.
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| Carl |
Posted - 09/20/2005 : 08:00:03
If you wear that a demo, you deserve to get beaten up by the riot police!! ;) |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 09/20/2005 : 06:18:23
He looks like the chocolate M&M.
 I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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| starmekitten |
Posted - 09/20/2005 : 05:35:33
many years working in health care my friend, many years
it's not all glamour you know
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| Newo |
Posted - 09/20/2005 : 05:30:55
I don't know what one looks like. Might I recommend spending less time sat in front of a computer. 
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Buy your best friend flowers. Buy your lover a beer. Covet thy father. Covet thy neighbour's father. Honour thy lover's beer. Covet thy neighbour's father's wife's sister. |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 09/20/2005 : 04:41:07
he looks like a haemmarho..
hemarroi
hema..
you know
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