Semi Permanent 10 - New Zealand

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  • Date: 20 - 21st August 
  • Time: 8:00am - 7:00pm 
  • Venue: Aotea Centre
    THE EDGE
    50 Mayoral Drive
    Auckland 
  • Refreshments:  
  • Cost: Tickets $290
    Students $150
    VIP $495 and meet the speakers 
  • RSVP: Purchase online www.buytickets.co.nz or
    phone 09 357 3355 or 0800 289 842 
  • Payment Options: See online ticket service for options 

Semi-Permanent New Zealand will spark up winter with a stunning line-up of 15 international and local creatives headlining the two-day event spanning August 20-21 at the THE EDGE, Aotea Centre, Auckland.  

Now in its seventh year, the annual design symposium brings together speakers from a broad range of disciplines including graphic design, fashion, animation, illustration, motion graphics, typography, sound design, interactive and experiential marketing, fine art, music, product design and more.

New Zealand creative duo Karen Walker and Mikhail Gherman feature while father and son team Dick and Otis Frizzell round out the New Zealand line up.

The 2010 UK contingent features legendary graphic designer and film maker Storm Thorgerson, often referred to as the sixth member of Pink Floyd, and Storm will be joined by his collaborator Peter Curzon; Christopher Thomas Allen founder of multi-media company The Light Surgeons; creative interactive firm founder Nicolas Roope of Poke London; graphic designer and author Adrian Shaughnessy and sound designer Duncan Speakman of Subtlemob.

From the USA comes New York based illustrator and typographer Jessica Hische and motion graphics company Buck will feature Kiwi Gareth O’Brien and Orion Tait.

Pixar’s Andrew Gordon who has just finished production on Toy Story 3 will talk about his animation experience and German product designer Katrin Sonnleitner completes the line up.

Semi-Permanent is the only event of its type in Australasia. With sister events held in Sydney, Perth, Brisbane and Melbourne, New Zealand organisers The Church describe it as “a global gathering of pure talent, new ideas, conversation and visual splendour”.

“This year’s line up is the biggest yet. Two ‘big days out’ for the creative industry with powerful talent, inspiration, fresh ideas and fantastic industry networking opportunities,” says event producer Anna Cameron of The Church.

“Anyone working or interested in creativity or design – from creatives to marketers – won’t want to miss out on this year’s event.”

Also launched today is Semi-Opinionated, a social media site for the industry that invites participation from creatives, media and design commentators. A virtual soapbox to address industry colleagues, Semi-Opinionated encourages on-line debate and discussion.

All attendees receive the legendary Semi-Permanent goodie-bag worth over $100, which includes the international Semi-Permanent book and loads of other goodies. And there is also the associated side-events and wrap party, for those wanting to celebrate the whole Semi-Permanent experience.

Tickets are $290, with a student rate of $150, or buy the VIP ticket for $495 and meet the speakers. Tickets are available through The Edge Ticketing Service www.buytickets.co.nz 09 357 3355 or 0800 BUY TICKETS (0800 289 842).

SEMI-PERMANENT NEW ZEALAND 10 SPEAKERS

Karen Walker & Mikhail Gherman - Fashion, Business
Auckland, New Zealand

KAREN WALKER started her eponymous brand in 1988 while in her first year at fashion school with just $100. The last twenty something years have been solely focused on building this tiny starting point into the leading fashion brand it is today with a reputation for its original, effortless and unpretentious style.

Karen Walker shows each season as part of New York Fashion Week and has permanent showrooms in London, New York, Tokyo and Sydney.

Karen Walker collections are high casual with one foot in tailoring and the other in street wear. The reoccurring theme is taking extremes and pushing them together - masculine and feminine, tailored and street, luxury and non-luxury, dark and super-cute.

Overall the label has a feeling of effortlessness and has been described by the U.K.’s Independent newspaper as being “the kind of look that provides a means of appearing cool but not trying-too-hard, cute but not saccharine, alternative but not self consciously so. The fact that these clothes appear to be so totally not ‘fashion’ is what makes them so now”.

Celebrities such as Bjork, Sienna Miller, Alexa Chung, Beth Ditto, JenniferLopez, Claire Danes, Cate Blanchett, Liv Tyler, Mandi Moore, Shirley Manson, Kate Hudson, Claudia Schiffer, Drew Barrymore and Madonna all favour her work with four pieces from the Dust collection featuring on Kate Winslet in Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman’s legendary film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

MIKHAIL GHERMAN studied towards a Bachelor of Fine Arts for four years at Elam, majoring in painting and then graphic design. After leaving University he had a graphic design company for several years before moving into the advertising world as an art director and later, creative director. He has been with Publicis Mojo since 1991.

Parallel to his advertising career he has also been creative director and partner in the Karen Walker brand since its inception in the late 80’s.

Karen Walker & Mikhail Gherman live in Auckland, New Zealand, with their daughter Valentina.


Dick Frizzell - Art, Advertising
Napier, New Zealand

DICK FRIZZELL was born in 1943 in Auckland, New Zealand and lives and works in the Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. Dick Frizzell has often slipped through the nets of traditional critical and curatorial definition and the success of his artistic career is, in part, due to the number of dramatic diversions he has made between different art styles and genres. Before moving into visual arts Frizzell worked in advertising. He has worked as an animator, commercial artist and illustrator and has no qualms about blurring the categories between his commercial work and art. His paintings are often a pastiche of images drawing on modern art and graphic design.

His work has always been characterised by a highly skilled handling of paint and an endlessly inventive range of subject matter and styles: faux-naive New Zealand landscapes, figurative still-life, comic book characters and witty parodies of modernist abstraction. His taste is conveniently broad and he has a penchant for fondly remembered and well-worn clichés. His work also portrays a sense of exuberance, ironic humour and baby-boomer nostalgia. An anti-traditionalist, Frizzell often makes a deliberate effort to mix up the categories of high and low art - poking fun at the intellectualisation of 'high art' and the existential angst of much New Zealand painting in the art culture of his youth.

Although primarily a painter, Frizzell also produces an extensive range of works on paper including lithographs and screen prints.

Otis Frizzell - Art, Street Art, Music
Auckland, New Zealand

If there are any barriers to where OTIS FRIZZELL’s diverse, irrepressible talent and colourful personality will take him, he has yet to be stopped by them.

He has maintained a high profile for nearly twenty years, bringing the same appealing combination of energy, humour and raw talent to all his work regardless of the medium.

Otis entered public life in his late teens as half of popular hip-hop duo MC OJ and Rhythm Slave. He has performed as Joint Force and Stylee Crew. His broadcasting partnership with Mark “Slave” Williams carried the duo into a long running Wednesday drive-time radio slot on 95bFM called The Wednesday Special and then to hosting the Base FM breakfast show.

The duo’s radio celebrity transferred to television with the award winning Mo’ Show.

Otis has more than 20 years of public graffiti art experience, and since 1998 has retained his position as New Zealand’s highest profile graffiti artist. His first solo exhibition Opto 2000 produced with pop culture manipulator Mike Weston, marked the beginning of an innovative art production and management collaboration that has produced a playful and challenging stream of works, repeatedly setting a benchmark in artistic and technical achievement in the chosen media.

His work can be found at the Parnell Gallery, Lethams Gallery (Herne Bay) the Saatchi and Saatchi offices, Robbie Williams’ London management office IE Music, on KFC packaging, Breast cancer T shirts, Grand Prix Racing Cars, Drag Strips, Playstation Ads, numerous walls and backdrops, TV2 promos, record sleeves of pop artists such as Che Fu and more recently Tiki Taane and Fat Freddys Drop.

A man of many talents. An artistic innovator, style leader, artist, hip-hop performer, radio personality, tattooist, graphic designer and chauffeur to the stars and a success in every pursuit, he is one of the true stars of New Zealand’s alternative universe.

In early 2005, Otis abandoned TV celebrity and the offer of a fourth Mo Show series, to focus on art projects working out of The Area studio with Mike Weston as half of the Art Brand, Weston Frizzell.

As a solo artist and art collaborator, Otis is now enjoying life as a full time artist, print-maker and illustrator.


Storm Thorgerson - Graphic Designer, Film Maker
London, UK

Storm Thorgerson formed Hipgnosis in 1968 with Aubrey Powell (Po), a graphic design studio specialising in creative photography and working mainly in the music business designing album covers for many rock 'n' roll bands including Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, 10cc, Yes, Peter Gabriel, Black Sabbath, Paul McCartney, Syd Barrett and Styx, amongst others. Storm started a series of books on album cover art with Roger Dean called Album Cover Album, and with Hipgnosis wrote and designed Walk Away Rene 1978 and The Goodbye Look 1982 about their own stuff.

In 1983 Storm, along with Po and Peter Christopherson, formed Green Back Films and embarked on producing numerous rock videos including material for Paul Young, Yes, Nik Kershaw, Robert Plant, Interferon, Nona Hendryx, Big Country and many others and also long forms for Barry Gibb (Voyager), Yumi Matsutoya (Train of Thought), and Channel Q a heavy metal compilation for Polygram Records.

Storm went solo and continued making videos (Learning To Fly for Pink Floyd won best director at Billboard), and tried his hand at commercials (Tennants One Great Thing won Golden Rose in Scotland). He continued designing album covers for Pink Floyd, Catherine Wheel, Alan Parsons, Anthrax, amongst others, and branched out into documentaries, making Art Of Tripping for Ch 4 in 1993, a two-part exploration of the connections between drugs and artists.

In 1994 Storm directed six short films for Pink Floyd, which were screened at concerts during their world tour, and also an hour-long science documentary on the Hubble Constant for Equinox called The Rubber Universe. In 1997 he compiled a book of his images for Pink Floyd called Mind Over Matter published by Sanctuary Books and in 97/98 wrote and directed an hour long documentary for the Discovery channel about the (non) existence of Aliens subtitled Are We Alone?

Storm continues to design album covers (Phish, Ian Dury, Cranberries, Pink Floyd, Catherine Wheel, Alan Parsons, Ween), to execute assorted graphics for DVDs, websites, programmes, T-shirts and so on, and to direct the occasional film.

He has written and designed several books including 100 Best Album Covers (Dorling Kindersley) and Eye Of The Storm (Sanctuary Books).


Peter Curzon - Graphic Designer
London, UK

Peter Curzon will join Storm Thorgerson on stage at Semi-Permanent for a discussion around their collaborative projects.

Peter Curzon is a specialist in graphic design having had previous experience in both music artwork and corporate branding.

He operates a London based studio and has worked on the music art work for bands and artists such as Ian Dury & The Blockheads, The Cranberries, Megadeath, Alan Parsons, Muse, The Mars Volta, Wye Fayre, Audioslave, Yumi Matsutoya, Pink Floyd and Jane’s Addiction.


The Light Surgeons - Christopher Thomas Allen - Multi Media Arts
London, UK

THE LIGHT SURGEONS are a collective of pioneering multimedia artists, founded in 1995 by creative director Christopher Thomas Allen. The Light Surgeons functions as a media arts production company which seeks to create new cross-disciplinary audiovisual work that breaks new ground through its installation, live performance and digital film productions.

Over the past 12 years The Light Surgeons creative output has spanned a diverse range of different mediums; from print, photography, motion graphics, digital film production and exhibitions, to installations and ground breaking live audiovisual performance projects. The Light Surgeons are renowned for producing countless innovative visuals for club events and concerts as well as helping pioneer and develop the current VJ scene in the mid-nineties.

Regular contributors to the annual onedotzero film festival, The Light Surgeons have made an explosive four screen projected piece for the re-opening of the Royal Festival Hall in London and completed a new audiovisual performance, True Fictions: New Adventures in Folklore, which was commissioned by The Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, EMPAC, a new organisation based in upstate New York.

After starting their own club night with Rob Da Bank - the now legendary Sunday Best, TLS began working in residence at the Blue Note club in Hoxton square, providing moving cine-scapes for seminal independent record labels like Ninja Tune, Mo’Wax, Metal Headz and Wall of Sound.

TLS slowly refined its creative output and developed its technology through live concert performances with bands such as The Herbalizer, Cornershop, Sneaker Pimps and Propellerheads; taking their shows on tour internationally.

CHRISTOPHER THOMAS ALLEN is the founder and director of The Light Surgeons. His work crosses a diverse range of media from graphic design, photography, film and video installations through to exhibition curation. Allen works on all aspects of The Light Surgeons projects as a Producer, Director and collaborating artist in his own right.


Poke - Nicholas Roope - Interactive, Agency
London, UK

From leading creative practitioner and cofounder of Antirom in 1995, though to executive creative director roles at Oven Digital and Poke, Nicolas Roope has always looked beyond industry rhetoric to the inspiring truths of interactive networked media; this passion driving his career in the business spanning the last fifteen years.

“I am an artist at heart. My material of choice is interactive media and the communities, businesses and agendas that drive it. A lot of this interest is expressed through Poke, a vibrant, rigorous creative consultancy that believes in the power of creativity as a force for unlocking and creating value for our client's businesses. Poke London are highly acclaimed by creative peers in the field and also by long-standing clients who repeatedly witness the results of our deep approach.”

Roope has creatively driven numerous high profile client engagements, projects and personal initiatives, picking up world-class awards along the way.

He is a long standing blogger and frequent contributor to industry, cultural magazines and sites and his work and ideas have been widely distributed through the on and off-line worlds.

Nicolas was appointed member of the Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences in 2006 and is the UK’s Webby Ambassador. He is also a UK Coolbrands board member.

In 2004 Nicolas also founded Hulger, another creative slant on technology, but in this instance physical. Two of Hulger’s phone designs and their Plumen low energy light bulb concept were included in MoMA New York’s permanent design collection in 2008. The Hulger story has been featured in worldwide press including the New York Times, Vogue, ELLE, GQ. The Times and The Guardian.

Adrian Shaughnessy - Graphic Design
London, UK

ADRIAN SHAUGHNESSY is a self-taught graphic designer based in London. He spent 15 years as creative director of Intro, the design studio he co-founded in 1989. During his time at Intro, the studio won numerous awards including a D&AD Silver. At its height the company employed 40 people. It was an early adopter of digital technology and a pioneer of motion graphics.

In 2004 he left to pursue an interest in writing and to work as an independent design consultant. Today he runs ShaughnessyWorks, a consultancy combining design and editorial direction and the publishing company Unit Editions.

He has written and art directed numerous books on design. How to be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul has sold over 70,000 copies and has been published in numerous foreign language editions. His two most recent books are Graphic Design: A User’s Guide and Studio Culture: the Secret Life of the Graphic Design Studio.

Between 2006-09, Shaughnessy was founding editor of Varoom: The Journal of Illustration and Made Images, a magazine dedicated to the analysis of contemporary image making. He writes regularly for Eye and Creative Review, and has a monthly column in Design Week. He is a contributor to The Wire, and a contributing writer to Design Observer.

Shaughnessy lectures extensively around the world; he hosts a regular series of one-hour weekly radio shows on Resonance FM called Graphic Design on the Radio. He is an external examiner at three leading UK universities.


Duncan Speakman - Artist, Sound Designer
Bristol, UK

DUNCAN SPEAKMAN is an artist based in the UK’s Bristol. Since 2008, Speakman has been an artist in residence at the Pervasive Media Studio located in Bristol.

Originally trained as a sound engineer at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, his work now examines how we use sound to locate ourselves in personal and political environments. Seeking out the poetics of the everyday, he creates socially relevant experiences that engage audiences emotionally and physically in public spaces.

He often employs walking as both a process and/or an outcome of his work, partly because it is ‘within the speed culture of our time, a kind of resistance’ (Alys). The artist manipulates the poetics of everyday in an attempt to make invisible public artworks, taking on Grierson’s definition of documentary as ‘the creative treatment of actuality’.

Many of the pieces Speakman creates, such as the sound walks and live performances, are experienced on headphones while walking through public spaces. Sometimes they are pre-recorded; at other times they may use satellite positioning, live performers and real-time sound processing. Other works include large-scale video projections, micro-documentaries and books.

Speakman is a senior lecturer in Media Practice at the University of the

West of England and is currently developing site-responsive sound walks, street games and pervasive theatre works. He has been exhibited internationally at festivals including ISEA (Nagoya), Futuresonic (Manchester), RADAR (Mexico City), enter (Cambridge), TPAM (Tokyo), Liveworks (Sydney), Navigate Live (Gateshead) and InBetweenTime (Bristol).

In 2001 he was awarded the Clark Trust Bursary for digital arts and has received critical acclaim for his video blog 29fragiledays.

In 2007 he was peer advisor on the Almost Perfect locative media residency at Banff New Media Institute and in 2009 he was awarded the Vauxhall Collective Theatre commission for his work creating the 'subtlemob' performance form.


as if it were the last time
a subtlemob by Duncan Speakman

On Friday 20 August at 7pm, Semi-Permanent is going to attempt to set the world record for the largest ever subtlemob.

Audiences will be invited to download an MP3 file onto their own device (e.g. Mp3 player, ipod, mobile phone) and turn up at a secret location in central Auckland, not far from The Aotea Centre, to listen to the especially composed sound along with narration and instructions.

Two MP3 files will be made available for download from the Semi-Permanent website and the audience will swap roles back and forth - while one group will be instructed to perform a simple scene the other group will hear this described as if it were a film scene, but they will actually see it happening around them.

The MP3 file and full instructions will be made available for download from Thursday 19 August. You will also be able to download the file at Semi-Permanent and Duncan Speakman will be presenting on Friday 20 August at Semi-Permanent.

Throughout the piece the roles of watcher/performer will alternate between the groups, ever increasing in pace until by the end they will be performing/watching simultaneously.

This work will be a snapshot image of contemporary New Zealand, allowing the audience to watch it, reflect on it, and live it.

as if it were the last time will explore ideas of how mobile technology can create social disconnection in shared public spaces. It will also look for ways to use those same technologies to create connections between strangers and friends, to savor the moment and the temporary space that will be created during the performance.

as if it were the last time, a subtlemob by Duncan Speakman is brought to you by British Council New Zealand.

“When you put on the headphones you’ll find yourself immersed in the cinema of everyday life. As the soundtrack swells people in the crowd around you will begin to re-enact the New Zealand of today. Sometimes you’ll just be drifting and watching, but sometimes you’ll be following instructions or creating the scenes yourself. Don’t worry, there will be nothing illegal or embarrassing, sometimes you might be re-enacting moments you’ve seen in films, sometimes you’ll just be playing your self. This is no requiem, this a celebratory slow dance, a chance to savor the world you live in, and to see it with fresh eyes.”

as if it were the last time is dedicated to Paul Walker (1979 – 2009)

“Capricious and profound, the experience definitely captures what it is to escape from the world for a little bit – then return and find that you see things just a bit differently.” – The Londonist

Jessica Hische - Typography, Illustration
New York, USA

JESSICA HISCHE is a typographer, illustrator, and eater of cake working in Brooklyn, New York.

After graduating from Tyler School of Art with a degree in Graphic Design, she worked for Headcase Design in Philadelphia before taking a position as Senior Designer at Louise Fili Ltd. While working for Louise, Hische continued developing her freelance career, working for clients such as Tiffany & Co., Chronicle Books, and The New York Times.

In September of 2009, after two and a half years of little sleep and a lot of hand lettering, she left Louise Fili to pursue her freelance career further.

Jessica has been featured in most major design and illustration publications including Communication Arts, Print Magazine, How Magazine, The Graphis Design Annual, American Illustration and the Society of Illustrators.

Jessica Hische was featured as one of Step Magazine’s 25 Emerging Artists, Communication Arts ‘Fresh’, Print Magazine’s New Visual Artists 2009 (commonly referred to as Print’s 20 under 30), and The Art Directors Club Young Guns. In 2009 she was named Lettercult's Person of the Year.

Buck - Orion Tait & Gareth O'Brien - Motion Graphics Creative Studio
New York, USA

From offices in New York and Los Angeles, BUCK works with a broad range of clients in the advertising, broadcasting, retail, film and entertainment industries. Comprised of illustrators, animators, filmmakers, artists and designers, Buck direct and produce live-action, stop-motion, 3D character animation, and traditional cell animation as well as design and animate motion graphics. They have branded networks, and written and directed campaigns and short-form narratives, designed print ads, websites, vinyl toys and exhibited in art galleries.

Buck are visual storytellers and conceptual thinkers approaching what they do with a designer’s eye, and a creative process based on the building up of ideas, encouraging maximum input, collaboration and experimentation.

ORION TAIT
Creative Director / Principal

Orion has written and directed campaigns for Coke Zero, Mountain Dew, Sherwin Williams, Hertog, Powerade, and Buck’s first music video for The Bravery.

He earned degrees in filmmaking and fine arts, then fell in love with graphic design after graduation and taught himself the discipline. Formerly an interactive designer at a company called Heavy, Orion designed and directed interactive campaigns and promos for scores of record labels and artists including Radiohead, Madonna, The Flaming Lips, The Beastie Boys, Warner Brothers, Reprise and Capitol Records.

Heavy's original programming and celebrated interactive work for clients such as Nike, Diesel and Volkswagen eventually led to broadcast motion graphics and commercial spot work, an area that Buck has focused on since 2003.

Orion has spoken at events including OFFF Barcelona, FITC, and AIGA and Art Director's Club events, among others.

GARETH O’BRIEN
Art Director / Animation Director

Kiwi born Animation Director and Designer Gareth O’Brien works on multiple mediums including (but not limited to) stop motion, live action, 3D animation, cell animation and motion graphics.

After graduating from Massey Design School in Wellington Gareth began working at the Emmy Award winning Kraft:Haus Films. He grew with the company and helped to build an award winning design team. Within 3 years Gareth won 2 golds, 3 silvers and a bronze at the New Zealand Best Awards in the "Broadcast Graphic Design" category.

After a short spell working in broadcast design at the acclaimed Nexus Productions in London Gareth joined Buck in New York as a Designer and Animator, quickly progressing to Art and Animation Director. Over the past 3 years Gareth has worked with such clients as Coke, Pepsi, Sundance, Comcast, The Bravery, NBA, Fox, Nike and MTV.


Pixar - Andrew Gordon - Animation
San Francisco, USA

ANDREW GORDON has been animating characters professionally for over 15 years. He joined PIXAR ANIMATION STUDIOS in 1997 where he has been an Animator on A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles and Ratatouille. The characters he has worked on include Mike Wazowski from Monsters, Gill from Finding Nemo, Edna Mode the costume designer in The Incredibles and Linguini from Ratatouille. He supervised animation on Pixar’s academy award nominated short film Presto and has just finished production on Toy Story 3 which is due for release in New Zealand in early July.

Mr. Gordon studied animation in Vancouver, New York and New Jersey and prior to his work at Pixar he worked in the Looney Tunes division of Warner Brothers. He was awarded "Outstanding Character Animation in an Animated Motion Picture" by the Visual Effects Society for his work in Finding Nemo.

Gordon has been passionate about teaching animation for over 10 years. He began teaching at the Academy of Art, teaching all levels of the animation program there. He has taught animation intensives throughout the world. Andrew is also actively involved in The Pixar Animation Internship, helping lead it for 2007, 2009 and the upcoming 2010 program. Andrew is a contributing lecturer at Animation Mentor. He is a frequent guest artist at CSU Summer Arts Program.

He is one of the founders of Spline Doctors (www.splinedoctors.com), a blog/podcast dedicated to animation education. He is currently helping develop and teach at the new animation program at California College of Art in Oakland (CCA).

Katrin Sonnleitner - Product Design
Karlsruhe, Germany

KATRIN SONNLEITNER is a product designer based in Karlsruhe, Germany. After graduating from Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design she received a fellowship at Designlabor Bremerhaven and worked on several design and exhibition projects for the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for polar and marine research about mircro-organisms and bionics.

She founded her own design studio in 2007 and works on a wide range of conceptual research, product and exhibition design and both interior design and public space for renowned clients such as Kahla Porzellan, Raumplus GmbH and Deutsche Bahn AG.

Her works that often deal with the relationship between human and object and cross borders between art and design have been exhibited worldwide.

Since 2008 she has taught in the department of product design at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in addition to running design workshops.

Katrin Sonnleitner plays with objects, spaces, and existing ideas in order to find unexpected interpretations of the familiar. Katrin’s concepts pull from ordinary and universal entities, deconstruct past notions, and finally deliver something new - like The Puzzleperser, a rug-slash-puzzle made from recyclable synthetic and natural rubber and synthetic fibers. The Puzzleperser looks like a Persian rug when assembled, but requires the work and interpretation of the builder for it to function as such.

Semi-Permanent audiences can see Katrin’s work in somewhat different: Contemporary Design and the Power of Convention, an international touring exhibition prepared by the Institut for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa) and curator Volker Albus, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut and Shed 10.

Quirky interpretations of everyday objects bring a ‘serious lightness’ to this exhibition. With 148 objects from more than 60 designers and studios – 47 of them based in Germany and 20 in other European countries – the products on display illustrate the great diversity and the humour that can emerge when the usual rules of convention are deliberately subverted.

Venue: Shed 10, 90 Wellesley St (Middle Deck), Auckland CBD
Dates: 31 July - 29 August 2010

 

Posted on: July 21, 2010