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