DAE Design Research Podcast - Ola Korbańska - Purity Is Temporary

WHAT A series of banners made of dirty cleaning rags as a protest in support of women’s rights, showing empowering statements that have escaped from the dirt. WHY Inspired by the Black Protest in Poland, Ola Korbańska embraced the cliché that cleaning is a women’s job to make her point. By taking their undervalued chores out of the house and into the open, she publicly questions the suppressed position of women worldwide. HOW By ostentatiously scrubbing significant public places — a church, a governmental building, a square or a statue — she gave the act of cleaning a special significance. As the cloth soaks up the dirt, the tapedoff letters acquire meaning and form a clear message: ‘no woman no kraj’, meaning: no woman, no country. QUOTE “Dirt is captured and exposed to convey a message.” Interview: Tom Loois | Editing and sounddesign: Lotte van Gaalen | Mix: Lotte van Gaalen | Editor in chief: Tom Loois | Soundtrack: Blue Dot Sessions. Music: www.freemusicarchive.org