Archive: The Cuckoo Syndrome
As familiar as his heartwarming call from the forest is, his reputation as a nest-usurping parasite is equally morally dubious. The term cuckoo syndrome is used for types of parasitic systems of production that develop through the appropriation of a location, the nest, in this case the gallery, and its temporary conversion. A number of the projects shown in the exhibition use the Kunstraum Niederoesterreich as an autonomous production facility. In contrast to the standard rules of industrial design, which are usually subordinated to the rules of production and the economics governing the market, parasitic designers no longer design products anymore. Instead they create free spaces where the users themselves can become productive. The parasitic neither wants to educate nor to persuade us. It gets right under the skin of rational thought and infects it with the idea of change; with the possibility of adding dynamics to something static.
On show and in operation are projects by Pieke Bergmans (NL), Santiago Cirugeda (E), Curro Claret (E), Martí Guixé (E), Mischer’Traxler (A) and Andreas Strauss (A).
curator: Uli Marchsteiner
an exhibition by publicart Lower Austria, in cooperation with the Kunstraum Niederoesterreich and Vienna Design Week.
