Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennale publication (ELP9) launch this Saturday 2-7pm. Near the fountain Carlton gardens, make a picnic of it, come catch up.
To mark the end of the 5th/6th final Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennale Dec2018-Dec2020. As well as the end of the 12 year artist facilitated biennale project, this art book/endless lonely planet 9.
Supported by the City of Melbourne COVID-19 Arts Grant.
Publication $25 from me, and World Food Books soon. $15 for biennale artists from me.
I have been travelling around China (and Macau and Hong Kong) for the past few weeks. Here are some images from my stay in Shanghai, which coincided with the tail end of Shanghai Fashion Week. I also managed a quick swing by Columbia Circle, a HEMA supermarket, and MIFA 1862.
We are officially back! It’s been refreshing to take a step back from the blog, to reassess priorities, and to take a look at what’s happening in the field of design in China and its neighbouring geographies with more of a critical eye: I’m happy to be back and to continue offering news and updates, hopefully for a while to come. And what better way to start than with news from the now-opened Design Society in Shekou, Shenzhen - specifically, the museum’s latest venture, an exhibition called “Craft: The Reset”.
Opening early next month, and taking place until March 2019, this exhibition showcases the work of more than 50 designers and studios, including PINWU, ffixxed, Shao Fan, Benwu Studio, Sally Lin and Zhang Junjie, to investigate “the widening possibilities of crafts as an equally important creative impulse for China’s future innovation”. Of the exhibition, Director of Design Society Ole Bouman states:
“It’s a new narrative, coming from the most pioneering minds in society and the design field. It’s a narrative not as a regression, falling back into the trap of nostalgia, but as a future oriented design, based [on] new ways of living, on new business models, new application of digital technologies and, yes, a new cultural sensitivity of the need to save the planet and cultivate vibrant communities to ensure its future stewardship. That’s why we call this exhibition Craft: the Reset, to showcase how craft is being re-energised by attracting the strongest talents for its act of rebirthing.”
Further details about the exhibition can be found on the Design Society website.
