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).
The Web Jockey Protocol is a social protocol for performing customised cascading stylesheets (CSS) of a specified website to an audience within an agreed period of time. It takes the shape of a DJing live performance. By displaying the modifications real time, the audience-performer relationship can be a form of passing knowledge or requests.
We start as webjockeys and write CSS on a pad to remix wikipedia. When one group of Web Jockeys takes the lead (a b2b2b2b2b), they start from what was written by the previous webjockey group but choose a different website, both helping those who are less confident with CSS to take agency, and taking the challenge of starting from someone else choices. To become a way of passing knowledge, the WJP will include a cheatsheet for participants to choose from.
