WHEN IS DESIGN ART, WHEN DESIGN?
USE LESS – useless leather brownbag
Boundaries between art and design are becoming fluid, blending together. When is design art, and when is art design? Is it now decided merely by the context in which we happen to find ourselves, the allocation? Does an artwork become a product when it is branded, labeled and sold in a regular store? And does a design object become art when it is on offer in a gallery or displayed in a museum? Bags were displayed in a gallery and offered for sale in a fashion store at the same time.
TEXTILE OBJECT / Retail & Exhibition concept / leather / Hamburg 2001
“It is symptomatic of capitalism that a phenomenon is first exploited to rob it of its content and any cultural significance it may have, and then made into a pure object of consumption.”