Romantic Regimes 

Israel / Jerusalem Design Week 2018
Poland / Lodz Design Festival 2019 

Bine Roth and Adi Zaffran for The Human Conservation Project
curated and commissioned by Tal Erez & Anat Safran.

 
Romantic Regimes imagines how technology may kill romantic gestures and as a result inhibits natural physical contact with others. Five training devices challenge the idea of today’s courtship as well as the importance of body language and emotive gestures.

Technology transforms us faster than we can predict, geopolitical shifts are changing  the world in ways unimaginable, and the gambles we made at a better future are turning into perils of today. When the future seems to be getting out of our hands, we increasingly look at the past, looking for anchors to hold on to as we move forward.  

‘Romantic Regimes’ are the systems of emotional conduct that affect how we speak about how we feel, determine ‘normal’ behaviours, and establish who is eligible for love - and who is not.  Through our body, humankind transmits and interprets feelings, attitudes and moods. Technology has changed the way we interact and there is a contested proposition floating around whether technology has killed the romance and has taken us from physical contact towards a more virtual world. With this project we would like to challenge the idea of today´s courtship as well as the importance of our bodily communication resources. Interacting with the objects you will learn to use the body as a medium for expression.