complex instability of a simple tool

The idea for this project came from the book Queer phenomenology by Sara Ahmed, a book that demonstrates how queer studies can make use of phenomenological methods. By examining what orient means in terms of sexual orientation, Ahmed explains the meaning of bodies situated in space and time. Bodies are defined by their movements through the world, orienting themselves toward or away from objects and others in the world. Orientation means knowing where you are, feeling at home, or having certain objects within reach. An orientation affects what is close to the body or what is reachable. According to Ahmed, phenomenology of queerness reveals how social relations are arranged spatially, how queerness disrupts and re-orders these relations by not following accepted paths, and how a politics of disorientation puts other objects within reach that at first glance appear incongruous. With this, and specific an excerpt where Ahmed talks about the table - a desk, to be precise, related to a masculine side, I wanted to play with the notion of utility and futility, using a kitchen table that is seen as feminine, and messing around with the position of objects, like putting a fork on the ground; messing around with these preconcepts of objects, their purposes, genders and utility.

This wavy and unusable table stands on itself while an unusable fork stands on the ground, followed by a chair made out of fibers and that cannot stand on itself, making it again, unusable.