Kuntenserven #0

Kuntenserven Mag. aims to preserve all our queer bodies and their deviant subjectivity inside the corpus of fashion and design criticism. In Issue Zero, we aim to pick out three main threads of (fashion) 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?

In a commisioned work, Iztok Klančar embodies our threads of critique. Sublimating himself into the alter ego of Smutty Smut, he breaks with commodified notions of queerness, centering subjective experience. By embodying our 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.

Kuntenserven Incorporated, initiated in 2023, is a comradely publishing press aiming to question and critique contemporary (fashion) design paradigms through embodiments of, experimental publishing on, and collaborative explorations of queer subjectivity.