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A virtual exhibition hosted by Skelf project space, 2018.

For this edition of SKELF, GLAP Collective have written four texts based on 35mm slides of hairdryers from a redundant art & design library.

In this spirit of mail art, a GLAP member packaged up each slide and randomly sent one to each of the Collective. The package came with a note, instructing the recipient to write no more than a single A4 page in response to the image. The resulting four pieces of text, were shared amongst the group as material to provoke futher re-working in sound and moving images.

The slides once used for studies in product design range across generations starting in 1946, charting cultural and technological transformation as one era is subsumed by the next. Images projected through light become data file transmitted on-line, objects which are historically imbued with predestined gendered role distinctions.   Have the hairdryers and their many users witnessed a cultural longing for the familiar through retrospection and pastiche? A Girl with Time thinks so.

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