Declarations is an ongoing artistic research project into the poetic materiality of the CSS web-standard and its visual-political-cultural echoes on design-artistic practices and our daily lives. Declarations is a love letter to the crafts of designing with language.
The process of tie-dying will be split into a series of CSS-like steps printed on paper sheets that participants can combine to formulate a style sheet for their tie-dye (similarly to fridge-magnet pomes, where pre-printed words can be combined into a poem).
A collective Tie-Dye event where people can bring fabrics to be dyed. The aim is to connect everyday items to the theme of hacking by encouraging people to modify clothing beyond what the manufacturer originally intended. The process of tie-dying will be split into a series of CSS-like steps printed on paper sheets that participants can combine to formulate a style sheet for their tie-dye (similarly to fridge-magnet pomes, where pre-printed words can be combined into a poem). Participants will then take on the role of a render/browser by executing each step of the dying process as if they were the CSS interpreter. At the end of the process, they will have "rendered" their own hacked t-shirt or another fabric item, which they can wear and keep as a souvenir of the event.
A basic draft of CSS-Style Tie-Dye steps:
t-shirt {
rubber-band: center;
twist: rotate(3 three times);
rubber-band: left;
fold: 2 times;
color: blue;
color: red:
remove-rubberband: left;
color: pink;
}
