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Crafting Desire: Queering the Red Sleep Bed (last edited: 2024)

Szu-Ying (Rising) Lai
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Social values are materialised by craft, becoming part of the material culture. Individuals inherit ideology by using the objects. ‘Crafting Desire: Queering the Red Sleep Bed’ is a project that explores how an artefact carries on group consciousness arranged in the domestic environment. Narrating from a queer perspective, I reveal the untold, oppressive stories of the Red Sleep Bed. Through critical making, I transform this artefact from assisting patriarchy to embracing gender diversity. Red Sleep Bed (紅眠床) is traditional Taiwanese bed furniture. As a dowry, the craft of the Red Sleep Bed documents the ideal projection of marriage from family and society – gender role, patriarchy, fertility, heterosexuality. As a bed, the design of the Red Sleep Bed entangled with Taiwanese languages, customs, and religions, affording a standard way of living.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsmaterial culture, Cultural Artifact, queering, critical design
date22/07/2022
last modified17/02/2024
statusin progress
share statuspublic
affiliationKoninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten
copyrightSzu-Ying Rising Lai
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2570360/2570361
external linkhttps://medium.com/discourse-craft-by-design/they-craft-a-bed-for-marriage-i-design-a-bed-for-desire-c61e601ab1ca?sk=06f5e3d2655e3e02a8c863e864a7bfa9


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2570371 朱漆八腳紅眠床 National Museum of Taiwan History Public domain
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2570399 Crafting Desire: Queering the Artefact Szu-Ying Rising Lai, Helena Roig All rights reserved
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2570421 What Bed Am I? Szu-Ying Rising Lai All rights reserved
2570428 Intro: Story Of Me And The Red Sleep Bed Szu-Ying Rising Lai All rights reserved
2570443 Crafting Desire Szu-Ying Rising Lai, Eric de Vries All rights reserved
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2570994 Crafting Desire, PreShow Szu-Ying Rising Lai, Evalotte van Rosen All rights reserved
2571000 Crafting Desire, PreShow Szu-Ying Rising Lai, Hannah Schleifer All rights reserved
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2571021 Crafting Desire, Research Presentation Szu-Ying Rising Lai, Ronald Smits All rights reserved
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