Projects from Jana Lange
name
Jana Lange (janalange)
location
country
germany
university
Kunsthochschule Kassel
department
Graphic Design
university address
Menzelstrasse 13a
34121 Kassel
university country
germany
url
http://www.kunsthochschule-kassel.de
id
0009353
title
8Zeit
group members
Jana Lange, Kim Asendorf
professor(s)
Gabriele Franziska Götz
rank
1621
tags
year of making
2009
project url
http://janalange.de/projects/8zeit/
uploaded
2010-02-14 23:19:48
The society is in a constant change. Everything should become faster, better and more efficient.
The 8Zeit (infinite time) magazine shows how the increasingly extreme social characteristics affect on the private lives of the editors. They question the society and themselves, as a part of it.
Issue 1 focuses cosmetic surgery. People try to stop the transience of their body, at least superficially. They strive for timelessness of the optical, but sometimes it expands to the unnatural. The preservation of the youth is now available for the broad mass of the society. Dealing with cosmetic surgery is becoming more reckless, even with small stains people put themselves under the knife. It seems to provide an escape from yourself – an attempt to clean the psyche.
Meanwhile, plastic surgery has become part of our culture. A lifted face or some inflated breasts are partially seen as a status symbol. 8Zeit plays with the idea of plastic surgery in a "do-it-yourself" format.
