AVATAR MACHINE by Marc Owens
NOWHERE/NOW/HERE. Investigating new lines of enquiry in contemporary design is an exhibition curated by the creative partnership of Roberto Feo and Rosario Hurtado (El Último Grito) that challenges the perception of design by questioning our relationship with the environment. Taking the viewpoint that our environment has become part of us rather than us being part of it, as its point of departure, Nowhere/Now/Here encourages us to see design as an integral component of the world-shaping process.
Nowhere/Now/Here has three key themes that take us through visions, approaches and personal reflections on how we could change the way we live.
Cultural Resistance challenges the idea of what culture is today and the many ways it can be perceived. It provokes existing systems and proposes new alternatives in socio-economical and religious context. It offers an opportunity to discover new narratives in relation to an object as well as changes in the culture of design profession.
Psychological Exploration takes a look at how we understand an object on a psychological level. The theme examines how we relate and react to an object emotionally and allow for it to translate us into different places and moments.
Material Intervention investigates new tools, materials and technologies applied in design and manufacturing processes today. Moreover, the subject engages with the interference of consumerism and ecology and explores the influence of graphic and spatial intervention on our behaviour and relation to space and object.
Nowhere/Now/Here features more than 60 works ranging from everyday products, fashion, jewellery to installations and live performances by established designers, emerging design practitioners and recent graduates and students.
A crucial aspect of Nowhere/Now/Here is the contribution of four masters: Ron Arad, Gaetano Pesce, Javier Mariscal and Daniel Weil who contextualize the work of the younger generation trough a series of interviews and some of their works.
The designer’s ideas of a customized, more functional and, eventually, alternative worlds are presented in groups formulated on the notion of non-linear context. One that sees no common discipline, technique or material but creates a unity evoked by the association of ideas.
The conceptual journey arranged by El Último Grito leads through hexagonally shaped and multi-layered spaces designed by Patricia Urquiola studio and the graphic image and vision of Fernando Gutierrez.
The exhibition also included a cinema program that was permanently running in the purposefully designed cinema space with landscaped seating by Nic Rysenbry.
SOLITUDE / THE ONE / THE SELF / SEDUCTION / MEMENTO
greetje van helmond / bruce bell / daniel charny & dabriel klasmer / dash dacdonald / laura potter / oscar narud / paul cocksedge / tithi Kutchamuch / yuri suzuki / studio glithero / noam toran & nick williamsom
SYSTEM / MORPHOLOGY / RECONFIGURE / SYMBIOSIS
assa ashuach / auger-loizeau & aleksandar zivanovic / elio caccavale & david muth / tobie kerridge
susana soares / dainippon type organization / eelko moorer / fernando Brizio / dunne & raby / manel torres - fabrican ltd. / onkar Kular / gregor timlin / jerszy seymour
SOLIPSISM / EXPANSION / AUGMENTATION / REVEAL
martí guixé / aa / bryony birkbeck / david bowen / fulguro & thomas Jomini architecture workshop / martino gamper / random international / tord boontje / pedrita
TYPOLOGY / MUNDANE / ANECDOTE / FICTION / MYTH
carl clerkin / 5:5 designers / nacho carbonell / óscar díaz / interaction research studio / mmmm... / zaunka / marc owens / noam toran & onkar Kular / nic rysenbry / urquiola-berghinz
ASSEMBLAGE / ABSORB / DIALOGUES / SUBVERT
daniel Eatock / santiago cirugeda / the studio of fernando gutiérrez / maud traon / amidov / marta Botas & germán r. Blanco / olivia flore decaris & tiago da fonseca / raw edges / alejandro mazuelas / troika / ernesto oroza
LOSS / ABSENCE / THE UNSEEN / IDENTITY
bert simons / corinne quin / dominic wilcox / NB: studio / pablo valbuena / marei wollersberger / mathias Hahn / tiago da fonseca / alon meron
TELEMADRE by mmmm...
PANTA REI by Studio Glithero
Free download of the catalogue >> http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/es/files/2008/exposiciones/nowhere-now-here-doc/NWNH_catalogo.pdf-en