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TORDEN KAFFE/I WANT TO GET HIT BY LIGHTNING


The research for this project is based on a personal fascination and compulsion to move toward lightning, situated between fear and a curiosity-driven desire to understand what it feels like. The work explores time as a bodily experience, event-based, unpredictable, and encountered rather than measured.

The project features a collection of short stories that map a history of encounters with lightning, while simultaneously telling the story of a person who has decided to get hit by lightning. The texts are semi-fictional, they exist not as truth but as an expression of an environment, a specific time and place, as it exists years after it stopped being. A series of woven textiles function as a parallel study of lightning. They engage with the movement, language, and physics of lightning as a temporal and material phenomenon. They operate as a second system, tracing and translating lightning’s behaviour through structure and repetition. 

The project has no definitve state and, like lightning itself, moves and changes depending on what it encounters, both in environment and need. A moving semfictional archive.




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