hookup culture
broke my heart
or
My final dissertation project for my BA Design degree at Goldsmiths which was given a first and also featured in an Arts Thread article covering the degree show:
“Hookup culture, and the mental impact it has on people, is the focus of Caitlin Taylor’s Bedtime Stories (Hookup Culture Broke My Heart) publication. The project features ten interviews with young adults who have all participated in hookup culture. The publication combines quotes with illustration and photography and reads like a conversation between two sexual partners.”
“Hookup culture, and the mental impact it has on people, is the focus of Caitlin Taylor’s Bedtime Stories (Hookup Culture Broke My Heart) publication. The project features ten interviews with young adults who have all participated in hookup culture. The publication combines quotes with illustration and photography and reads like a conversation between two sexual partners.”
THE BEDSIDE STORIES INTERVIEWS
Bedside tables are strangely intimate items of furniture: they hold everything you need when you’re at your most vulnerable. People often hide things in their top drawers or leave things out without thinking. This is a visual response to the individual experiences of hookup culture using imagery and words derived from multiple interviews with young people who partake in casual sex. It aims to communicate the emotional effect of participating in hookup culture while playing with traditional romantic aesthetics to create an empathetic narrative.
My publication features ten interviews with young adults living in London who have all participated in hookup culture. Their stories are varied but are honest accounts of how casual sex in our current culture has affected them.
CLICK HERE TO READ
Bedside tables are strangely intimate items of furniture: they hold everything you need when you’re at your most vulnerable. People often hide things in their top drawers or leave things out without thinking. This is a visual response to the individual experiences of hookup culture using imagery and words derived from multiple interviews with young people who partake in casual sex. It aims to communicate the emotional effect of participating in hookup culture while playing with traditional romantic aesthetics to create an empathetic narrative.
My publication features ten interviews with young adults living in London who have all participated in hookup culture. Their stories are varied but are honest accounts of how casual sex in our current culture has affected them.
CLICK HERE TO READ
A HYPOTHETICAL CONVERSATION
BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE WHO HAVE SHAGGED
After repeatedly reading the interviews I realised that when read together some of them strangely seemed to fit. Things were recurrently talked about by different people such as earrings or glasses of water and others seemed to directly respond to each other, including two people who both felt disgusted by themselves afterwards. I combined quotes from various interviews, slightly adjusting them to turn them into a duologue between a man and woman. This idea was suggested while I was doing my context report, creating a hypothetical conversation between two people who haven’t slept together but could have.
BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE WHO HAVE SHAGGED
After repeatedly reading the interviews I realised that when read together some of them strangely seemed to fit. Things were recurrently talked about by different people such as earrings or glasses of water and others seemed to directly respond to each other, including two people who both felt disgusted by themselves afterwards. I combined quotes from various interviews, slightly adjusting them to turn them into a duologue between a man and woman. This idea was suggested while I was doing my context report, creating a hypothetical conversation between two people who haven’t slept together but could have.
I’m possibly looking to continue this project if I find inspiration to do so...