The Bad Taste

The Bad Taste: Cultural Politics of Trash and Kitsch

During the workshop, from a theoretical and practice-oriented perspective, we investigate the ideological, political and historical parameters of “taste” in popular culture, explore what is meant by designations such as canonical “high culture” and popular “low culture”, and who is empowered to make these distinctions. Through creating individual and collaborative multidisciplinary projects with highly charged imagery juggling, among others, the aesthetics of comics, advertisements, pornography, popular music, and video games, we explore how bad, vulgar, kitsch or valueless aesthetic can be used as an oppositional aesthetic challenging hegemonic class, gender, and racial hierarchies, normative behaviors and ideologies.

OBJECTIVES
Developing Creativity and Innovation, Critical Thinking, Communication and Collaboration
OUTCOME
Photography, Text, Performance, Object, Spatial design, Interactive systems, Hybrid spaces, Exhibition, Community building...
METHODOLOGY
Experimental, Theoretical/Practical and Interdisciplinary
VALUES
Risk Taking, Experimentation, Theory ❤ Practice
TOOLS
Costumes, accessories, masks, props, makeup, sound- and light system, soft & flexible materials...