PLATES Iteration 2: Body Issue

The physicality of a human body denotes our essential relationship to forms and being. Yet, if placed in different contexts, the notion of body could collapse into a synonym to a surface, a machine, a system, or an automated assemblage in capitalism, media technology, politics, and the Internet. A body could lack transparency, concreteness and authenticity while still claiming its very identity and functionality. In Body Issue, PLATES presents collective voices which address issues around a corporal body, a virtual entity, body politic, identity, body mechanics, bodilessness, expressive/performative body, body as tools, or any body issue in relation to their practice.

Contributors include: Bryson Lee, Can Can Press, Clement Valla, Common Imprint, Laura Coombs + Mindy Seu, Luna Maurer, Studio Moniker, Radical Characters + Body & Forma, Source Type + Mara Frazier, Stephanie Specht, Tiger Dingsun

PLATES serves an editorial and curatorial response to contemporary design practice and criticism. Each issue dives into a specific topic that is pertinent to the design reality we live in, presented and archived in a series of image and textual plates in an organic, iterative and evolving format.