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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 somewhere between the fear of lightning, and a curiosity-based desire to find out what it feels like. 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. Next to the stories are a collection of woven textiles. Textiles as a visual manifestation of a ‘second’ text.
A woven study of lightning and electricity, if we define them as a character. 

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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