Two people one swimsuit. - MISCHA BAKA

Saturday, May 26, 2018

Two people one swimsuit.


After a big shoot in the hills we returned home to review rushes and explore a new idea. Mishka and Rebekah wearing one swimsuit. This is part of an ongoing project that uses the same swim suit as the consistent element in a series of movement explorations.

The concept: Products collect people.

This concept questions the idea that a consumer collects products in a unique process of cultivation and choice. The concept suggests that products are mass produced and exactly alike, and it is in fact a product that gathers unique and individual people into a collection to be claimed by a company, or the product itself. The swimsuit representing a singular product that varied individuals try to fit into and conform to.




Mishka and Rebekah in one swim suit, Mischa Baka



The swim suit inspired a dance that had Rebekah and Mishka appear as one body moving. The swim suit  and their individuality vanished in this respect, the strangeness became normalised. They became a creature in their own right.

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