"I would like art to do more than coddle me in the comforts of my limited and limiting habits and desires. As hackneyed as the thought may be, I would like art to compel me to imagine alternative possibilities of being in the world, organizing my life, interacting with others, engaging history, owning my own desires and non-instrumentalized alienation. I would like for art to expect and demand more of me then a compliant, affirmative participation. But, then again, I'm not so sure if what I'm calling for as alternative possibilities can be achieved any more through the old Brechtian strategies of estrangement and defamiliarization, of rupture and shock, since these very strategies to awaken a subject's historical and critical consciousness seem to be all-too-familiar techniques of the mass culture industry to achieve opposite effects" Kwon. Jorge pardo's designs on design. Design and art. Documents of contemporary art. . . #sculpture #structure #sawdustconstruction #geometric #purple #planterstand #plantertrends #interiors #design #artxdesign #artvsdesign #furniture #furnituredesign (at Eugene, Oregon)