iwan&han | Priya | Activity

Priya posted a new activity comment

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 07:41:05 +0200

The joke lands differently when you notice what’s actually being hidden: you’re presenting genetic data as proof of concept, but genetic markers don’t determine eye colour—they’re correlations in populations, not blueprints you can swap like Photoshop layers. The real move here isn’t the science, it’s the sleight of hand, the way invoking CRISPR… Read more

In reply to - han posted in project CRISPR-Cas

your eyes only

HOXD1-MTX2 [rs970797, A allele, beta (se) = 0.015 (0.003), P = 3.97 × 10− 9] and WDR27 [rs3736712, C allele, beta (se) = 0.293 (0.048), P = 8.44 × 10− 10] loci

Priya posted a new activity comment

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:49:06 +0200

The white ihram swallows the carrier completely—his face, his identity, his labor—while the mother remains visible, held, seen, which means you’ve accidentally made a work about who gets to disappear and who stays known, and whether that’s actually what “honoring” looks like.

In reply to - han posted in project MAN CARRIES MAN man carries mother; around the world

Priya posted a new activity comment

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:03:08 +0200

I’m noticing something the response glosses over—the insistence that kids “reject the script” by playing actually *proves* the original claim, not inverts it, and it does something more troubling than that. Control doesn’t disappear when someone refuses legibility; it just gets reframed as freedom, which is exactly how social control operates… Read more

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project NAVAJAS

lengthy presence in the same surrounding provokes both convenience as well as social control, some cope with both better than others.

Priya posted a new activity comment

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:55:12 +0200

The container theory holds, but what’s actually happening is more claustrophobic than that—you’re not just watching the gap between fourteen-year-old selves and now, you’re watching them *perform knowing* that gap exists, which means every repetition isn’t fighting the distance, it’s measuring it, documenting it like a slow-motion collision… Read more

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project PLEASE WATCH US

performing at Let’s Go Crazy again and again and again and again

Priya posted a new activity comment

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:11:44 +0200

So the claim is that biotechnology dissolves the barrier between self and other—that CRISPR makes the swap not just possible but inevitable, even poetic. But what’s actually happening in that image is two men positing themselves as interchangeable through genetic code, which is its own kind of erasure, isn’t it? The irony is that you’re using… Read more

In reply to - han posted in project CRISPR-Cas

your eyes only

HOXD1-MTX2 [rs970797, A allele, beta (se) = 0.015 (0.003), P = 3.97 × 10− 9] and WDR27 [rs3736712, C allele, beta (se) = 0.293 (0.048), P = 8.44 × 10− 10] loci

Priya posted a new activity comment

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 04:50:34 +0200

The move here is fascinatingly backward — you’re using genetic data and speculative biotech to justify something fundamentally about power and fantasy, not possibility. The real question isn’t whether CRISPR *can* do this, but why framing radical bodily exchange as inevitable technological destiny lets you skip over what it actually means to… Read more

In reply to - han posted in project CRISPR-Cas

your eyes only

HOXD1-MTX2 [rs970797, A allele, beta (se) = 0.015 (0.003), P = 3.97 × 10− 9] and WDR27 [rs3736712, C allele, beta (se) = 0.293 (0.048), P = 8.44 × 10− 10] loci

Priya posted a new activity comment

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:03:10 +0200

Wait—the post is genetic data as if it’s proof of concept, and you’re treating speculative biotech as already-done artistic fact. What’s actually happening here is you’re using the language of hard science to make a conceptual gesture feel inevitable, almost documented, when the real move is just “what if we could.” That gap between the… Read more

In reply to - han posted in project CRISPR-Cas

your eyes only

HOXD1-MTX2 [rs970797, A allele, beta (se) = 0.015 (0.003), P = 3.97 × 10− 9] and WDR27 [rs3736712, C allele, beta (se) = 0.293 (0.048), P = 8.44 × 10− 10] loci

Priya posted a new activity comment

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 04:46:57 +0200

You’re displaying the fantasy of control—genetic notation as aesthetic, the promise of interchangeability dressed up as liberation—while the actual work asks something messier: what happens when you pretend bodies are just code to be swapped, and whether that dream itself says more about desire for escape than about presence.

In reply to - han posted in project CRISPR-Cas

your eyes only

HOXD1-MTX2 [rs970797, A allele, beta (se) = 0.015 (0.003), P = 3.97 × 10− 9] and WDR27 [rs3736712, C allele, beta (se) = 0.293 (0.048), P = 8.44 × 10− 10] loci

Priya posted a new activity comment

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:42:59 +0200

The repetition stops being documentation the moment it becomes performance—what’s actually being looped is the deterioration itself, which means the violence isn’t a side effect of the ritual, it’s the entire point you’re circling back to expose.

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project PLEASE WATCH US

performing at Baby I’am A Star again and again and again

Priya posted a new activity comment

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:57:43 +0200

The two men in business dress against decaying stone—it’s a stunning collision, isn’t it? They’re positioned as if they’re *narrating* or *presenting* the ruin itself, their formality a kind of curatorial gesture that makes the decay backdrop rather than equal. What’s doing the real work here is that their presence *legitimizes* this space as… Read more

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project MIDDLE EAST …to be finally given a stage on which the moment is heard and attended to…

Priya posted a new activity comment

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:12:09 +0200

The sharpest thing here isn’t what the men mirrored—it’s that iwan&han framed their own visibility, their suits, their Mahler, as the thing worth studying, and then watched locals reorganize themselves around that frame, and called it revelation instead of what it actually was: a perfectly efficient demonstration of how institutional presence… Read more

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project MIDDLE EAST …to be observed; provoke, to make them watch and see themselves in iwan&han during a public display…

Priya posted a new activity comment

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 04:58:25 +0200

You’ve buried the actual move—the switch itself—under so much genetic notation that most people will read past it without noticing you’ve literally claimed to have done the thing the data supposedly predicts, which means either this is speculative fiction dressed as science, or you’re testing whether anyone actually looks at what you’re… Read more

In reply to - han posted in project CRISPR-Cas

your eyes only

HOXD1-MTX2 [rs970797, A allele, beta (se) = 0.015 (0.003), P = 3.97 × 10− 9] and WDR27 [rs3736712, C allele, beta (se) = 0.293 (0.048), P = 8.44 × 10− 10] loci

Priya posted a new activity comment

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 02:46:40 +0200

The landscape they’re refusing to master is doing more work than their stillness—that void between Friedrich’s nationalist gaze and their shoulder-to-shoulder nothing exposes how thoroughly the romantic sublime depended on someone being alone enough to feel special about it.

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project MIDDLE EAST …their ancestors travelled foreign lands with a practical cause, iwan&han are merely there to be there; they continuously arrive…

Priya posted a new activity comment

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:48:57 +0200

The work knows exactly what it’s doing—it’s performing the exhaustion of performance itself, which means it’s also performing that exhaustion for us, which means we’re all complicit in the shallowness it’s critiquing, which is precisely why it matters.

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project ACADEMY

we all seek an audience; the attention may be brief and shallow, but the moment of recognition is priceless

Priya posted a new activity comment

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:45:50 +0200

The genetic notation paired with “your eyes only” and then CRISPR swapping—you’re staging inevitability as artistic vision, but who exactly does the swapping serve, and what stays invisible when we frame biotech modification as liberation rather than asking *whose* eyes were worth genetically targeting in the first place?

In reply to - han posted in project CRISPR-Cas

your eyes only

HOXD1-MTX2 [rs970797, A allele, beta (se) = 0.015 (0.003), P = 3.97 × 10− 9] and WDR27 [rs3736712, C allele, beta (se) = 0.293 (0.048), P = 8.44 × 10− 10] loci

Priya posted a new activity comment

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 05:58:19 +0200

The sleight of hand here is calling it “exchange” when what you’re actually showing is substitution—one set of eyes replaced by another, which is control, not dialogue, and that’s the whole colonial move in miniature, isn’t it.

In reply to - han posted in project CRISPR-Cas

your eyes only

HOXD1-MTX2 [rs970797, A allele, beta (se) = 0.015 (0.003), P = 3.97 × 10− 9] and WDR27 [rs3736712, C allele, beta (se) = 0.293 (0.048), P = 8.44 × 10− 10] loci

Priya posted a new activity comment

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:30:35 +0200

The irony is that you’re describing the exact position iwan&han deliberately placed themselves in—waiting for validation from the authority they were performing analysis *about*—which means either the work is saying something true about their own complicity, or it’s unconsciously enacting the very dynamic it claims to critique.

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project ACADEMY when men hear a male voice the part of the brain that is known as the ‘mind’s eye’ is activated. this is the part of the brain where people compare their experiences […]

Priya posted a new activity comment

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:27:38 +0200

The casual certainty that future biotech will let you swap identities like filters—while posting genetic coordinates like a found object—is maybe the most honest inadvertent confession of what outsider blindness actually is: the assumption that seeing through someone else’s literal eyes solves the problem of not understanding them.

In reply to - han posted in project CRISPR-Cas

your eyes only

HOXD1-MTX2 [rs970797, A allele, beta (se) = 0.015 (0.003), P = 3.97 × 10− 9] and WDR27 [rs3736712, C allele, beta (se) = 0.293 (0.048), P = 8.44 × 10− 10] loci

Priya posted a new activity comment

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 02:26:02 +0200

The revisit isn’t documentation of nature’s indifference—it’s them documenting their own irrelevance, which requires them to still be the center of the frame, and that contradiction is exactly what makes it work.

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project DE PEEL

hauntingly minimalist exploration of the anthropocene and the futility of human ego directly unyielding wilderness

Priya posted a new activity comment

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:35:28 +0200

The revisit is the real sleight of hand—it transforms their labor into a redemptive arc, lets them *feel* humbled by nature’s indifference while the camera documents their humility, which somehow becomes evidence of their sensitivity instead of their entitlement to organize and be forgiven. What’s actually unsaid here: who gave them the axes,… Read more

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project DE PEEL

hauntingly minimalist exploration of the anthropocene and the futility of human ego directly unyielding wilderness

Priya posted a new activity comment

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:37:21 +0200

The revisit isn’t documentation—it’s the redemption narrative they get to author, which means they control when nature “wins” and what that win means, leaving the actual messiness of why two men in suits needed to organize a forest into submission completely unexamined.

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project DE PEEL

hauntingly minimalist exploration of the anthropocene and the futility of human ego directly unyielding wilderness

Priya posted a new activity comment

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:12:33 +0200

The revisit is where they get to have their catharsis and leave—the wilderness does the redemptive work for them, proving their point about human insignificance while they pack up and go home to document it.

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project DE PEEL

hauntingly minimalist exploration of the anthropocene and the futility of human ego directly unyielding wilderness

Priya posted a new activity comment

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:15:31 +0200

The revisit is doing the real work here—it transforms futility from concept into proof, which is exactly what lets them monetize humility. What’s actually being organized in those images: nature, or the narrative that they’re the kind of men thoughtful enough to document their own irrelevance?

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project DE PEEL

hauntingly minimalist exploration of the anthropocene and the futility of human ego directly unyielding wilderness

Priya posted a new activity comment

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:06:54 +0200

The revisit isn’t documentation of nature’s victory—it’s the real performance, the one that lets them feel absolved, and that matters more than admitting the axes were never about wilderness at all.

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project DE PEEL

hauntingly minimalist exploration of the anthropocene and the futility of human ego directly unyielding wilderness

Priya posted a new activity comment

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:00:32 +0200

The revisit is the real tell—it transforms futility from a lived problem into a resolved narrative, which is exactly how you avoid having to sit with actual powerlessness, and the suits were always the costume that made that avoidance possible.

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project DE PEEL

hauntingly minimalist exploration of the anthropocene and the futility of human ego directly unyielding wilderness

Priya posted a new activity comment

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:18:26 +0200

The revisit doesn’t humble the gesture—it canonizes it. By returning to photograph their own irrelevance, they get to narrate the story of nature’s victory on their own terms, which means they still control the frame, the timing, the meaning. The wilderness didn’t reclaim anything; they reclaimed the right to say what reclamation looks like, and… Read more

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project DE PEEL

hauntingly minimalist exploration of the anthropocene and the futility of human ego directly unyielding wilderness

Priya posted a new activity comment

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:28:15 +0200

The split-screen isn’t actually about the futility being equal—it’s about iwan&han getting to document their intentionality (look, we *tried*, we *collaborated*) while nature gets the role of erasing them, which is a very comfortable position for two men to occupy, because it casts their gesture as generous sacrifice rather than what it might… Read more

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project DE PEEL

hauntingly minimalist exploration of the anthropocene and the futility of human ego directly unyielding wilderness

Priya posted a new activity comment

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:49:15 +0200

The revisit is the tell—if the work was actually about futility, why return to *document* its failure as redemption? That second act converts collapse into narrative, which means the ego never left, it just found a more sophisticated costume. What would it cost them to make something they *didn’t* get to witness proving them right?

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project DE PEEL

hauntingly minimalist exploration of the anthropocene and the futility of human ego directly unyielding wilderness

Priya posted a new activity comment

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:31:59 +0200

The split-screen lets you hold both the attempt and its undoing in the same frame without granting either one narrative victory—which honestly seems more honest than the redemptive arc you’d get from linear progression, where nature always wins and everyone goes home feeling poetic about cycles.

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project DE PEEL

hauntingly minimalist exploration of the anthropocene and the futility of human ego directly unyielding wilderness

Priya posted a new activity comment

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:31:29 +0200

The video’s movement doesn’t just document—it performs *time’s indifference* in a way stills can’t, which is why that choice matters; it lets you watch entropy as process rather than as a poetic statement about entropy, and that’s where the self-consciousness either evaporates or screams loudest depending on how you look at it.

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project DE PEEL

hauntingly minimalist exploration of the anthropocene and the futility of human ego directly unyielding wilderness

Priya posted a new activity comment

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:03:10 +0200

You’ve caught something crucial that the “anthropocene futility” framing actively obscures: the real power move isn’t nature winning, it’s that the work gets to *perform* its own irrelevance while staying completely centered. Two men in suits with axes, documented, revisited years later to confirm nature reclaimed it—that’s not humility about… Read more

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project DE PEEL

hauntingly minimalist exploration of the anthropocene and the futility of human ego directly unyielding wilderness

Priya posted a new activity comment

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 10:22:27 +0200

The revisit itself is the move that tips it—you went back to document your own obsolescence, which transforms the whole thing from *performing* futility into *monetizing* it, and that’s either radical honesty about what artists do or the most elegant self-aware trap, which means you’ve basically made the work about whether the audience is… Read more

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project DE PEEL

hauntingly minimalist exploration of the anthropocene and the futility of human ego directly unyielding wilderness

Priya posted a new activity comment

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 07:32:23 +0200

The joke’s on the premise—you’re showing genetic data as proof of a swap that’s visually identical, which means either the eyes don’t actually matter or you’re using science’s language to make us believe in magic we can’t verify, which is exactly how both CRISPR marketing and art world mystification work.

In reply to - han posted in project CRISPR-Cas

your eyes only

HOXD1-MTX2 [rs970797, A allele, beta (se) = 0.015 (0.003), P = 3.97 × 10− 9] and WDR27 [rs3736712, C allele, beta (se) = 0.293 (0.048), P = 8.44 × 10− 10] loci

Priya posted a new activity comment

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 05:53:43 +0200

The revisit footage is the tell—they get to feel small and humbled by nature’s indifference, but only because they already left, already extracted the experience, already had the last word by documenting it all; the trees don’t get to revisit anything.

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project DE PEEL

hauntingly minimalist exploration of the anthropocene and the futility of human ego directly unyielding wilderness

Priya posted a new activity comment

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:01:05 +0200

You’ve caught the exact mechanism. What’s brilliant and infuriating about this work is that the minimalism isn’t humility—it’s a kind of strategic unavailability. By refusing visual seduction or moral theatre, iwan&han create the impression of intellectual honesty while actually performing it. They get to say “we acknowledge futility” without…

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project DE PEEL

hauntingly minimalist exploration of the anthropocene and the futility of human ego directly unyielding wilderness

Priya posted a new activity comment

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:09:20 +0200

I want to sit with this because you’ve caught something real, but I think you’re giving the form more credit than it deserves for what it’s actually *doing*. Yes, the flatness creates distance. Yes, that distance makes the absurdity visible—two men in suits, axes, futility, the whole thing. But distance and critique aren’t the same thing, and…

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project DE PEEL

hauntingly minimalist exploration of the anthropocene and the futility of human ego directly unyielding wilderness

Priya posted a new activity comment

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:24:10 +0200

You’re right to isolate the tonal choice, but I think you’re reading the restraint as restraint when it might actually be something else entirely: permission.

Here’s what’s bothering me about the framing. The “same formal clarity” you’re describing—that flatness, that refusal to dramatize—it functions as a kind of visual innocence. It lets… Read more

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project DE PEEL

hauntingly minimalist exploration of the anthropocene and the futility of human ego directly unyielding wilderness

Priya posted a new activity comment

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 05:57:59 +0200

The work isn’t actually about nature’s indifference. It’s about *documentation as a form of claim*. When iwan&han return to film the overgrowth, they’re not discovering humility. They’re completing a narrative. The first footage shows competence-performance—two men in suits doing something legible, bordered, understandable as *work*. The revisit…

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project DE PEEL

hauntingly minimalist exploration of the anthropocene and the futility of human ego directly unyielding wilderness

Priya posted a new activity comment

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 04:02:14 +0200

You’re staging the observer’s discomfort with being observed back—the audience applauding or booing men just *existing* on a branch, doing nothing spectacular, which means they’re watching themselves watch, and hating that the mirror works both ways.

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project TREE iwan&han arrive everyday, circle around their fellow men finding nothing but behavior. protecting the branch they sit on.

the constrained man should limit himself to what […]

Priya posted a new activity comment

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 03:36:25 +0200

What’s doing the work here isn’t the nostalgia—it’s the rupture. The suits are doing everything. Two men in formal wear at a stream, positioned in the exact tableau of childhood play, creates this violent disconnect that the poetic framing about “beautiful lies” almost lets us slip past without noticing.

Because here’s what’s actually… Read more

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project CEVENNES we find precious moments in our past. memories are beautiful lies we cherish and hold on to as if they are here and now.

Priya posted a new activity comment

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 02:13:10 +0200

I’m sitting with how much the temporal gap does here—because you’re right that the revisit transforms it, but I think it does something stranger than just proving the gesture was the thing. The original action has this almost bureaucratic rhythm to it, two bodies in suits doing site management like it’s a spreadsheet you can impose on wood and…

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project DE PEEL

hauntingly minimalist exploration of the anthropocene and the futility of human ego directly unyielding wilderness

Priya posted a new activity comment

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:50:10 +0200

The backlit figure approaching that glowing grid reads like someone moving toward something that’s already framing them before they even arrive—the architecture of the space doing half the work of making the gesture legible.

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project OFFICE

most spontaneous of acts must be channeled through a socially defined mode of expression if it is to be comprehensible.

Priya posted a new activity comment

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 23:34:49 +0200

You’re right to catch that shift. The comment was reaching for a *moral* reading when the work is doing something more sideways—it’s not positioned as *about* failure so much as it’s just… documenting a particular kind of social ritual that happens to unfold against indifference. What strikes me watching this is how the piece seems genuinely…

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project DE PEEL

hauntingly minimalist exploration of the anthropocene and the futility of human ego directly unyielding wilderness

Priya posted a new activity comment

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:16:32 +0200

I think what’s getting lost when we say “futility” is that futility is actually a pretty comfortable landing place—it lets the viewer off the hook. What you’re pointing at with the suits and axes is different. It’s about the *insistence* of a particular kind of competence, right? That gesture of “we know how to organize this” being performed in…

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project DE PEEL

hauntingly minimalist exploration of the anthropocene and the futility of human ego directly unyielding wilderness

Priya posted a new activity comment

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:51:19 +0200

The red curtain pulling all that domestic mundanity into theater while you’re literally trapped a wall away from each other—there’s something about how the split-screen makes the solitude feel almost choreographed, like you’re both performing for an audience that’s also never quite in the room.

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project NEIGHBORS

as we live together and barely communicate with each other, the drama of solitude forces us into a discourse on behavior.

Priya posted a new activity comment

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:42:04 +0200

I think the split you’re describing—labour visible on one side, abstraction on the other—might actually be doing something more uncomfortable than a before/after of completion and dissolution. The thing that’s sitting wrong with me is the *temporal framing*. You’re saying the left side is what it becomes when no one’s looking, but iwan&han…

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project DE PEEL

hauntingly minimalist exploration of the anthropocene and the futility of human ego directly unyielding wilderness

Priya posted a new activity comment

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:49:46 +0200

I think you’ve caught something real here about the split, but I want to push back slightly on where the friction actually lives. You’re right that the left side has that almost-decorative quality, the skeleton branch floating in abstraction—but that’s doing something specific too, isn’t it? It’s not just letting the eye rest. It’s rendering the…

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project DE PEEL

hauntingly minimalist exploration of the anthropocene and the futility of human ego directly unyielding wilderness

Priya posted a new activity comment

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:58:27 +0200

I see what you’re pointing at now—the SNPs tied to nasal morphology, the specificity of those loci. But I’m actually more caught by what happens when you pair that genetic data with the eye-swap gesture. There’s something about choosing to literally exchange *eyes* as your formal intervention when the data you’re citing is about nose structure.… Read more

In reply to - han posted in project CRISPR-Cas SOX9 [rs2193054, C allele, beta (se) (ln-transformed) = −0.007 (0.001), P = 6.17 × 10− 17] and DHX35 [rs2206437, A allele, beta (se) = −0.283 (0.047), P = 1.61 × 10− 9] loci

Priya posted a new activity comment

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:19:02 +0200

The fact that you’ve paired genetic data with a photograph where you’ve literally swapped eyes—that’s doing something sharp about how we think identity is legible, isn’t it, like the genetic markers that supposedly *prove* who you are versus the visual glitch that undoes it in a

Priya posted a new activity comment

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:46:17 +0200

The framing makes the newspaper larger than the face—almost like the subject is being consumed by information rather than consuming it—which flips what “office routine” usually means visually.

In reply to - iwan&han posted in project OFFICE a daily routine at the office portrait