(Archive) The D.D.W. Sweatshop (DripDropWater)

The D.D.W Sweatshop (DripDropWater)

The project stems from our shared fascination with bodily fluids. Sweat results from our interaction with the world and how we affect and are affected by it. It leaves temporary traces in the form of transpiration, helping us regulate our temperature and adapt to outside circumstances. Sweat is pleasure and joy, but also discomfort and fear. It's something that everyone experiences. In a society where we are all labeled in one way or another, a deep dive into sweat shows that hierarchies can be dissolved, even if only for a short period. Our primary rationale is to stir a conversation on taboo misconceptions associated with sweat and the bad stigma surrounding it– considered repulsive by many. Sweat is something that everyone understands, and it does not fall into the definitions of gender, race, or someone's social status. Ultimately, we want to engage with the binary aspects of sweat and show how it can become a playful research tool for bringing the audience together, challenging traditional views on sweat, and engaging with questions of human productivity, human waste, and bodily affairs. 
DDW, GET SET, cause it's getting hot– deeply fresh and seriously playful!

Drip Drop Work have your body full of hope

The D.D.W Sweatshop is a temporary space resembling a pop-up drugstore tailored to fit the measurements of a parking lot, emphasizing this space as a transitional passage. Based on the body's relationship to work, the DDW Shop magnifies the western cult of excessive optimization and continuous improvement. We replicate self-care practices as reified by the economic juggernaut and satirize the quest for ideals of appearance, health, and self-improvement, to show how ideologies about work and health are designed into the products we use.