NO-CHAIR-DESIGN: A public bench with automated spikes
NO-CHAIR-DESIGN: Spotted on the news
NO-CHAIR-DESIGN: When Duchamp took the “Fountain”
NO-CHAIR-DESIGN: Making of “NOW HERE FINLAND” Exhibition.
Exhibition building for Now Here Finland is complete – Lucky new is that the exhibition venues are expanded abroad too. Look us up in Finland: 28.1.-13.5.‘11 Suomen käsityön museo (Craft Museum, Jyväskylä), 15.6-26.8.’11 Savonlinnan maakuntamuseo (Savonlinna Provincial Museum) and 4.-22.9.’11 Sibeliustalo and in Madrid later the year (I don’t know the venue yet). There has also been some discussion about lectures and performances too.
NO-CHAIR-DESIGN: Performance Artist use Chairs
Performance Artist use chairs as material because they are cheep.
The other thing is that chairs are seen as representatives of “the man” a king of a sort. Not everyone has a chair to sit on and it is easy measure the prestige of a person if s/he has a seat at some event.
Also sitting is the easiest body position to mimic which has meaning. Standing does not look like anything. It’s neutral state but sitting implies that a person is idle or at work or both. A person sitting is in some state.
Chair are obstacles which superimpose the idea of “being idle” or “at school” or “at work”.
Images via http://www.eero.storijapan.net/aineisto/E_e/kuvakooste/