REFRAME
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney 2006
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An exhibition that rethinks what it means to reuse and reform art and design practices. Through the creation of desires, needs and wants for the 'new' and encouraging disposal of the 'old', ever-increasing demands are being made on our limited systems - processes, materials, structures, and services. As a result, protection of the environment and sustainability of the world's resources, including energy, are increasingly the imperative of the twenty-first century. This exhibition resets the agenda in art and design by framing reuse as a driver of not only art and design but of all social exchange.
Re-Frame is a reflection of the wonderful diversity of design practices reflected within the School of Design Studies College of Fine Arts UNSW. It demonstrates a nexus between design craft and art â?? the emergence of a new language where boundaries are blurred and new associations are formed through the exchange of materials, processes and inter-relationships. I see this as a positive reflection of current interdisciplinary design practices.
The role of the designer has changed from servicing the consumerist industrial world of the last century. Today designers and design can be seen as a social commentator. Design has a new role, a challenging role to consider the environment and create a new paradigm for what we value. Like an alchemist who can turn water into gold the designer is challenging the paradigm of how we see waste and the excesses created by consumerist culture. However the role of social commentator goes beyond the re-use of materials. It literally is re-framing the whole way design operates and asks questions of our perceived values.
Curator Karina Clarke
An exhibition that rethinks what it means to reuse and reform art and design practices. Through the creation of desires, needs and wants for the 'new' and encouraging disposal of the 'old', ever-increasing demands are being made on our limited systems - processes, materials, structures, and services. As a result, protection of the environment and sustainability of the world's resources, including energy, are increasingly the imperative of the twenty-first century. This exhibition resets the agenda in art and design by framing reuse as a driver of not only art and design but of all social exchange.
Re-Frame is a reflection of the wonderful diversity of design practices reflected within the School of Design Studies College of Fine Arts UNSW. It demonstrates a nexus between design craft and art â?? the emergence of a new language where boundaries are blurred and new associations are formed through the exchange of materials, processes and inter-relationships. I see this as a positive reflection of current interdisciplinary design practices.
The role of the designer has changed from servicing the consumerist industrial world of the last century. Today designers and design can be seen as a social commentator. Design has a new role, a challenging role to consider the environment and create a new paradigm for what we value. Like an alchemist who can turn water into gold the designer is challenging the paradigm of how we see waste and the excesses created by consumerist culture. However the role of social commentator goes beyond the re-use of materials. It literally is re-framing the whole way design operates and asks questions of our perceived values.
Curator Karina Clarke
