Death culture is the absolute absence of tolerance: the banality of chanting death for the “high-contrast other,”
Beyond the fog of propaganda lie body bags of cedars, mountains filled with missiles, and birds carrying instruments of war; everything here smells like death.
This project showcases death, and the justification of it, in the high-contrast societies surrounded by the fog of propaganda, specifically in Iran. This project also tries to engage participants and visitors not to teach a technique, but to make spaces for an artistic, social-human interaction and conversation as a way out of totalitarianism.
Everything made in the lab can be presented as a mobile printing kiosk. In this kiosk, the studio invites visitors to use its stamps and make posters they can take home with them afterwards. The stamps often raise questions, and the kiosk space is the perfect place to talk about concepts and context.
Death Culture travels. If you programme a festival, gallery, art market or public event and want the press set up on site, with visitors doing the printing, get in touch. Sheets from both collections are also available as originals.
A manifesto for artists and designers by Luna Maurer, Edo Paulus, Jonathan Puckey and Roel Wouters, arguing that the process is the product. Work is built by setting conditions and rules, then letting an outside input — society and its human interactions — run through them. The kiosk is that idea with a press attached: the blocks are the rule, the visitors are the input.
So be it, until we conclude that the high-contrast other has the right to live.
