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wild hair — dissident hair practices
Wild Hair — Dissident Hair Practices is an hybrid-forum & showroom observing decolonial practices around the hair, its care, and politics. Empowering cultural practices and phenomena around the spirit of hairs beyond the expectations from the market and the western standards of hair. Pointing out struggles of oppression of the wild and non-linear hairs. We use artistic language and tools, as strategies to give out a no
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tomihiro kono 河野富広
sam fresquez with cielito lindo
mur mur
kay yoon with budding horns
pelitos locos
susana pilar delahante matienzo
pablo baresch
valeria montoya giraldo
christi knak tschaikowskaja
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18.06.2021
hybrid forum & exhbition showroom
25.09.2021
wild hair
dissident hair practices
Wild Hair program is the pilot program of Apotheke Lab.
Wild hair program embraces contingent hair practices invisible in western societies, as shaped by the linearity of the offer for hair care in the market, as well as addresses gender identity as part of the performance of hairs. Hairs are political in several intersectional manners, from how we carry them, and their shape as gendered connotations, from curls as deadlock for western standards of professionalization, touching the boundaries of subcultural identities, as well as self-narratives and social performance.
In matters of care, hairs have a wide spectrum of practices coming from non-western societies. Afro hairs embody centuries of colonial history, from the antique paths of the braids as a medium of communication in the tribal, as chemical straightening to suppress some sort of ‘vanity, if not self-awareness on how black women carry them out. We encounter the beauty and these millennial battles in between women, sold by patriarchal ambition, as they expected to be controlled, softened, dominated, overshadowed, segregated, and their hairs as an extension of that command. They are a matter of violence and oppression too. Wild hairs were fought by white supremacy and patriarchy, defining what ‘femininity is, dividing us by short or long, or curl or straigh.
Hairs are historical ghosts, they are dead body extensions we dare to carry or action to remove them, dissident voices and reality configurators. They are infinite in colors and shapes, when symbols can let us know about each one's history, belief, or commitment, they seem to be both meaningful and meaningless, when they fall we seem to forget them and let them run around like dune spheres. Wild hairs are storytellers, are cosmology themselves from subcultures to sects, to religion, to myths, them being humanly manipulated (cared for) is what completes the circle of communication between the alive mastering, in the end, that dead matter.
hybrid forum &
exhibition showroom
Partipants ↓
tomihiro kono 河野富広
sam fresquez with cielito lindo
mur mur
kay yoon with budding horns
pelitos locos
susana pilar delahante matienzo
pablo baresch
valeria montoya giraldo
christi knak tschaikowskaja
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Wild hair online forum ↓
18.06.2021 — 19.06.2021
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Wild hair exhibition showroom ↓
09.09.2021 — 25.09.2021
18.06.2021 — 25.09.2021
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La Afropoderosa is a social media influencer and content creator that since the last years, she is based in between Spain and the Guinea Equatorial, where she develops and designs content around the history of colonization, and Afro hair care history. She proposes a view on hairs as a matter of power but also used as oppression, how the Afro hair has been damaged by wester professionalization standards and chemical straightening, which not only reflects in social consequences but also in health care issues.
Lo llevamos rizo is a collective based in La Habana - Cuba, invested in informing and accompanying the hairs care for children, they use local traditions and local materials to create content for parents to prepare for their children and themselves ways to deal with the social impact of non-linear hairs, as there are so few references in pop culture to refer and create a healthy emotional relationship from primary school education. The collective started as an initiative from the Cuban Susana Delahante Matiezo, who at first joined local women from the Habana with similar concerns about hair care and designed a series of workshops and a runway with all generation women showing and modeling their wild hairs.
Kay Yoon is a Korean Artist who uses hair as a material to embody time, and movement, as some sort of spiritual force and memory engine that are shaped as sculptural and time objects as final apparitions.
Mur Mur is an initiative that was born in Bogota - Colombia, created by Valeria Oggiony and supported by Pedro Ramirez, on one side it is a haircut initiative interested in styling and shaping hairs in a way the natural behavior of hairs is enhanced, and the graphic and self-publication part accompany the process and present in form of a fanzine and image sequences some impression about the practice of hair cutting and hair care. Mur Mur participated in the Wild Hair program with both the forum content as well as with live haircuts and publication material exhibited in the showroom.
Tomihiro Kono is a Japanese wig maker with an experience of around 20 years in wig making practice, he tries to expand this work from classical wig making, rather than implementing an artistic direction and collaborating with fashion designers and artists. He participated in a Live interview in our forum as well as made a huge artistic contribution with pieces for the showroom of the Wild Hair program.
Christi Knak Tschaikowskaja is an artist from Kazakhstan based in Cologne - Germany, working with the connection of materials and actions to address trauma, the politics of contact, and touch. In ‘Studies for universalism‘ she worked with hair as an alive matter, reflecting on its path after they fell from our heads, where do they end up, there is some sort of conglomeration of them that can result in a new organic rotting body.
Sam Fresquez is a US American artist based in Phoenix, she works with Mexican heritage and hairpieces that reflect into local cosmologies, as the Mariachis and her piece ‘Cielito Lindo‘ which use mariachis’ ornaments to be reinstalled into women hairs, reshaping their purpose and representing the visual imageries. Sam participated in our online forum as well as with ‘Cielito Lindo‘ in our showroom.
Valeria Montoya is a Colombian artist working with hair as a coping mechanism for a condition called alopecia, which is the excessive loss of hair, it is a condition accompanied by mental health issues, like anxiety, which usually just make chronic the condition and it feels like a circle with no exit, she works with hair as witnesses of time passing and also releasers of concern of the same condition in her piece ‘Inmanencia Aislada‘ she performs this action of making circles with her hairs and gathering them in different formats to show its accumulation.
Pelitos Locos is a hairdresser based in Medellin - Colombia who design hairstyles within what ‘nea‘ culture signifies locally, they are bold and risky, as well as hair accessories alluding to local sound genres as ‘guaracha‘ where women swing their long hairs in the back in order to show off in the club. Pelitos Locos is political and plays with local social plasticity.
back to top ↑
Wild Hair program is the pilot program of Apotheke Lab.
Wild hair program embraces contingent hair practices invisible in western societies, as shaped by the linearity of the offer for hair care in the market, as well as addresses gender identity as part of the performance of hairs. Hairs are political in several intersectional manners, from how we carry them, and their shape as gendered connotations, from curls as deadlock for western standards of professionalization, touching the boundaries of subcultural identities, as well as self-narratives and social performance.
In matters of care, hairs have a wide spectrum of practices coming from non-western societies. Afro hairs embody centuries of colonial history, from the antique paths of the braids as a medium of communication in the tribal, as chemical straightening to suppress some sort of ‘vanity, if not self-awareness on how black women carry them out. We encounter the beauty and these millennial battles in between women, sold by patriarchal ambition, as they expected to be controlled, softened, dominated, overshadowed, segregated, and their hairs as an extension of that command. They are a matter of violence and oppression too. Wild hairs were fought by white supremacy and patriarchy, defining what ‘femininity is, dividing us by short or long, or curl or straigh.
Hairs are historical ghosts, they are dead body extensions we dare to carry or action to remove them, dissident voices and reality configurators. They are infinite in colors and shapes, when symbols can let us know about each one's history, belief, or commitment, they seem to be both meaningful and meaningless, when they fall we seem to forget them and let them run around like dune spheres. Wild hairs are storytellers, are cosmology themselves from subcultures to sects, to religion, to myths, them being humanly manipulated (cared for) is what completes the circle of communication between the alive mastering, in the end, that dead matter.
Tomihiro Kono is a Japanese wig maker with an experience of around 20 years in wig making practice, he tries to expand this work from classical wig making, rather than implementing an artistic direction and collaborating with fashion designers and artists. He participated in a Live interview in our forum as well as made a huge artistic contribution with pieces for the showroom of the Wild Hair program.
Christi Knak Tschaikowskaja is an artist from Kazakhstan based in Cologne - Germany, working with the connection of materials and actions to address trauma, the politics of contact, and touch. In ‘Studies for universalism‘ she worked with hair as an alive matter, reflecting on its path after they fell from our heads, where do they end up, there is some sort of conglomeration of them that can result in a new organic rotting body.
Sam Fresquez is a US American artist based in Phoenix, she works with Mexican heritage and hairpieces that reflect into local cosmologies, as the Mariachis and her piece ‘Cielito Lindo‘ which use mariachis’ ornaments to be reinstalled into women hairs, reshaping their purpose and representing the visual imageries. Sam participated in our online forum as well as with ‘Cielito Lindo‘ in our showroom.
Valeria Montoya is a Colombian artist working with hair as a coping mechanism for a condition called alopecia, which is the excessive loss of hair, it is a condition accompanied by mental health issues, like anxiety, which usually just make chronic the condition and it feels like a circle with no exit, she works with hair as witnesses of time passing and also releasers of concern of the same condition in her piece ‘Inmanencia Aislada‘ she performs this action of making circles with her hairs and gathering them in different formats to show its accumulation.
Pelitos Locos is a hairdresser based in Medellin - Colombia who design hairstyles within what ‘nea‘ culture signifies locally, they are bold and risky, as well as hair accessories alluding to local sound genres as ‘guaracha‘ where women swing their long hairs in the back in order to show off in the club. Pelitos Locos is political and plays with local social plasticity.
La Afropoderosa is a social media influencer and content creator that since the last years, she is based in between Spain and the Guinea Equatorial, where she develops and designs content around the history of colonization, and Afro hair care history. She proposes a view on hairs as a matter of power but also used as oppression, how the Afro hair has been damaged by wester professionalization standards and chemical straightening, which not only reflects in social consequences but also in health care issues.
Lo llevamos rizo is a collective based in La Habana - Cuba, invested in informing and accompanying the hairs care for children, they use local traditions and local materials to create content for parents to prepare for their children and themselves ways to deal with the social impact of non-linear hairs, as there are so few references in pop culture to refer and create a healthy emotional relationship from primary school education. The collective started as an initiative from the Cuban Susana Delahante Matiezo, who at first joined local women from the Habana with similar concerns about hair care and designed a series of workshops and a runway with all generation women showing and modeling their wild hairs.
Kay Yoon is a Korean Artist who uses hair as a material to embody time, and movement, as some sort of spiritual force and memory engine that are shaped as sculptural and time objects as final apparitions.
Mur Mur is an initiative that was born in Bogota - Colombia, created by Valeria Oggiony and supported by Pedro Ramirez, on one side it is a haircut initiative interested in styling and shaping hairs in a way the natural behavior of hairs is enhanced, and the graphic and self-publication part accompany the process and present in form of a fanzine and image sequences some impression about the practice of hair cutting and hair care. Mur Mur participated in the Wild Hair program with both the forum content as well as with live haircuts and publication material exhibited in the showroom.
