Loose Analogies of Dirt and Clean

From sanitation to pollution, passing through animality and spiritual states of unworthiness, analogies of clean and dirt define important key terms in political philosophy, institutional thinking, criminology, xenophobia, morality, and many other domains of social life. Investigating the evolution of metaphors of dirt and cleanliness, the lecture performance examines difference and indifference regarding the foreign body and urbanism, cleanliness' stakes in architecture (with the toilet as its primordial element), the hygiene of consciousness in Marx and its genealogy in the Left, the origins of morality in Freud, Islam's version of impurity (Kofr's filth, metaphorology of Fesad), aesthetics and politics (with pure bodies as its expression). 

• Sina Seifee is an artist based between Tehran, Brussels and Cologne. He explores experimental cartographies and modes of subjectivity, using radical poetry and perverted etymology. He received his master’s in media arts from KHM (Cologne) in 2014 and graduated from a.pass (Brussels) in 2017.