Design meets Lifestyle in Stockholm
Austrian Design meets Lifestyle is an Exhibition of Austrian Design, taking place at DESIGNGALLERIET in Stockholm. We have been commisioned to design part of the exhitbition. On 4.September 18:00 (Vernissage) we will produce an object and cook Würstel with our love-me-bender-kitchen. Come to the Vernissage or see the Exhibition between 5.9. - 29.9.2012 at Odengatan 21 / 114 24 Stockholm Concept for Scenography (Dokumentation follows): Refuge of incoherency In our installation, we want to show Austria as a vibrant place that is continuously changing, where there is growing and dying, tradition and avant-garde, icons and irony, all inextricably linked with each other. Austria (especially Vienna) has a lot of traditional clichés on it, but has also a lively creative scene, which ironically reflects these platitudes in contemporary music, literature, fine art and design. Our approach is to treat our space as part of a story, a place, where things happened, are happening and will happen. We don’t want a clean lifeless presentation of objects that show good consuming taste; we want to show the environment of a socially active, critically thinking human. - That there is politics, philosophy, controversy and critics. Design is treated as part of a life concept, an organic “Gesamtkunstwerk” or social sculpture. Therefore our Scenography also implies the selection of music, books, objet trouvés, cliché airport-art and souvenirs. We want to show contrast and controversy by confronting traditionalist with polarizing Austrians that break with values and norms: Wiener Werkstätte to Viennese Actionism, Grillparzer to Jelinek, Adolf loos to Coop Himmelb(L)au, Mozart to Fuckhead, etc. The outcome is a conglomerate of ambiguous relationships, a mix of high- and low- culture, art and kitsch and the contraries of daily life. |
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