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serving food

vacuuming

putting away dishes

2006
atHABITat:
costumes for domestic oppositional training


The atHABITat costume serves as an enabler of extended action in the home stage, where bodies are most inscribed and embedded in habitual action. At home we are in a constant repetitive dynamic state of upkeep choreography: upkeep of body, and upkeep of household. atHABITat hopes to harness, merge, and extend the meaning of the associated corporeal iterations: to reactivate the body at home, and therefore reformulate the corporeal self in the world.

Using strategies of iso-kinetic oppositional fitness training, the costumes are built to exercise and extend muscle activity in isolated movement paths (established by the choreography specific to the task/ upkeep chore at hand) in relation to physical resistance. They also serve as toolbelts and are designed to allow optimally efficient perfomance of household tasks.

KATE JAMES
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