Octopus Vulgaris Stealthy Skin Suit

Soft -Robotic Bodymasks mimicking the transformative qualities of octopus skin

Hosted by Mette Sterre Enterprise

This project is now archived and was part of DDW23

Event type

Exhibition

Location

Strijp-S

VEEM floor 8 - home of Manifestations

Torenallee 100

5617BE

Octopus Vulgaris Stealthy Skin Suit

Crossing Parallel Program

Together with TU Delft and their Crossing Parralels program artist Mette Sterre develops The Octopus Suit as a result of research into the transformative capabilities of an Octopus (skin), creating hybrid beings, dissolving the boundaries between mind body, human and non-human.

Octopus Love

The octopus skin suits from Mette Sterre researches how the transformative qualities of octopus skin can be mimicked and made wearable in an ongoing research using soft robotics and lenticular printing techniques. Her fascination started when night diving and saw the incredible transformative powers of the octopus; not only changing colours, but also changing shape to blend in its surroundings, she fall instantly in love. This was the starting point to create a series of carnivalesque bodymasks, combing new technologies with hand made aesthetics. By using generative design tools, lasercutting, soft robotics, perspex, 3d and lenticular printing, colour changing liquid chambers, pneumatics to create a serie of new octopus-human hybrids.

Octopus Vulgaris Stealthy Skin Suit

Mette Sterre

Seapussy Power Gallore - Abcession

Roosje Verschoor

Octopus Vulgaris Stealthy Skin Suit

Mette Sterre

Seapussy Power Galore - Abcession

Tomek Dersu Aaron

.js-video-overlay { display: none; }

Hosted by

Mette Sterre Enterprise
[email protected]
+31614203622
Visit website

Download press kit

About Mette Sterre Enterprise

Mette Sterre is a designer and visual artist based in Amsterdam. She creates sculptural body masks that cover the wearer’s entire body. She mixes digital techniques with carnivalesque and DIY aesthetics to create complex body masks. These restrict and permit movement forming the basis of her performance work. Sterre investigates how the human contour can be disturbed in the broadest sense, both ideologically and materially, in order to question what more we can be, beyond being human.