Kuntenserven Mag. Issue Zero: On Smutty Smut.

Kuntenserven Mag. Issue Zero: On Smutty Smut. 

Kuntenserven Incorporated is a comradely publishing press, initiated by Chet Julius Bugter and Tjerre Lucas Bijker. The publishing press aims to question and critique contemporary (fashion) design paradigms through embodiments of, experimental publishing on, and collaborative explorations of queer subjectivity. Within the magazine Kuntenserven Inc. aims to preserve queer bodies and their deviant subjectivity inside the corpus of fashion and design criticism.

In Issue Zero: On Smutty Smut, they aim to pick out three main threads of design critique: How does the queer body and its subjectivity relate to power structures and representation? What does commodified queerness look like, and how can queer subjectivity in turn throw off the yoke of capitalism? And how can the living and breathing queer body become a method to carve out space for other (queer) bodies?

Next to plotting out several theoretical perspectives, Issue Zero: On Smutty Smut sets out to explore how the work of Iztok Klančar relates to these. Iztok’s artistic practice, where he sublimates himself into the alter ego of Smutty Smut, appears in front of the filter, breaking with commodified notions of queerness and centering subjective experience. By embodying their threads of critique, Smutty Smut carves out a safe space for themselves in a queer world that is fraught with tension: harnessing the power of their difference.