Max Frisinger

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/max_frisinger.htm?section_name=artists_germany

When asked about his works and the development of his practice, Frisinger simply states: ‘inveni, vidi, vici’ (‘I found, I saw, I conquered’). His assemblages can be seen to be making reference to the tradition of refuse-based art, recycling detritus to comment on the society of excess. Looming over Frisinger’s new time-capsules of the everyday are the ghosts of found-object sculptures by Marcel Duchamp and Jean Tinguely, Arman’s ‘accumulations’ and Daniel Spoerri’s ‘snare pictures’, as well as a poetic playfulness, somewhere between Joseph Cornell and the musical, performative improvisation of Fluxus.

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/artpages/max_frisinger_yoko.htm

Noah's Ark (CocoRosie)

2010
Steel, glass, wood, mixed media

246 x 272.5 x 105 cm

Rising (Yoko Ono)

2010
Steel, glass, wood, mixed media

246 x 272.5 x 105 cm

Deconstruct a broken chair; ready for reconstruct

A broken chair for the up coming experiment with a group of participants. We might sit down for a discussion or hands on to the different found objects and see what I can make out of them.

Posting 45 post in one day wasn't easy, but if i don't speak out...

Antony Gormley wrote in Resurgence, issue 268

'Ai Weiwei insists that the right of self-expression and freedom of speech that he has enjoyed should be everyone's'

'once you discuss about art, you cannot avoid really to talk about individuals and freedom of speech' - Ai Weiwei

I normally manage my work in a printed format. I just realized that it is such a waste, if I don't use the internet to share what I have been doing to everyone. As I have the freedom here, to express whatever I want.; as Antony Gormley said, self-express is the core value of an artist.

'When you do not speak out or speak your mind, who are you?' - Ai Weiwei

Richard Artschwager

Art is useless; furniture is useful. If you sit your ass on it, it's a chair, if you walk around and look at it, its art... In fact, the more layers of meaning the better. - Richard Artschwager

The 6th Experiment - chair (sketches)

I then transform the information from the interview to sketches, and see how I can extract the element from it to develop my own chair design.

In a way, i am drawing the interviewees' experiences, am I going to recreate those experiences through a single objects? Why?

The 6th Experiment - chair (1hr model making workshop) (updated)

In this experiment, I try to design a chair with a group of people in a sightly different way. I keep doing the interview while I ask them to make a model at the same time.

I just try to get information in a different way and see how it influence me later.

And at the same time, I provide a direct method for the interviewee to express themselves through the process of making.

 

 

The 6th Experiment - chair (interviews) (Updated)

The question I asked:

• How have you ever misused a chair?
• What function you really like rather than just sit on the chair?
• What is the most extraordinary experience you had when you were using a chair?
• Can you tell me a story about you and a piece of furniture?
• Do you remember a film that there is a piece of furniture and which played an very important role?
• Please describe your ideal chair in teams of its functions, materials, look & construction.

Original interviews footages

BREEDING TABLES by KRAM/WEISSHAAR

http://www.kramweisshaar.com/projects/breeding-tables.html
The way I design actually act like a computer, a creative processor, to deal with the input from the public.
I think it is important to show the audience my thinking process while I present my final work.

 

 

multifunctional chair — Chair Blog

multifunctional chair — Chair Blog:

"How Have You Ever Mis-Used A Chair?" (ongoing)

Below is the post on my facebook timeline:

Dear all,

I need your help!! "How Have You Ever Mis-Used A Chair?" If you have an example of misusing a chair in your flat, room or office etc., could you kindly please take a mobile picture and upload to my wall, or email to Sam125@gmail.com

The picture will play a very important role for my MA research and design, thanks a lot.

Show everyone your creativity and the way you adapt a space!!!

Below are what I get from my friend within the past two months

Seung-Yong Song chairs

Object-A: “I am looking in every nook and cranny of the room to find hidden spaces. Under the table, beneath the bed, above the wardrobe… All the space in the room is completely full of odds and ends. There’s no other choice. And I start building my object like the city’s tallest building seen from the window in the room.”

Object-B: “I climb on a chair. I put books on a ladder. If things are freed from their own unique functions, we might agonize over how to use this objects.”

Object-E: “The unique name of things limit the range of product’s shape and function, but above all, the fact that there exists stereotyped function in accordance with each unique name suppresses my imagination. I am not willing to deny or destroy the identity based on the stereotype, but I only reinterpret the uses I need in my own design language.”