Archive: Twilight Zone - Art Hits Design
The tension between autonomous sculpture and the providing of a service, the interplay between functionality and autonomy has, since Minimal Art, been subject to constant transformation. Artists search for connections or relatedness to visual culture, to design. As a mirror-image of Duchamp's Readymades, art is increasingly being declared a basic commodity.
TWILIGHT ZONE dedicates itself to artistic positions and strategies that highlight questions concerning usability, attribution, and functionality.
The opening, as an accompanying program to the VIENNAFAIR, includes a broad audience in on the discourse and demonstrates usability and an everyday approach to the shown works: In the context of the exhibition the works can be read as art, in the course of the evening program as applied objects, thereby directly placing the question of their purpose and function as the central theme.
Curators: Edek Bartz and Krüger & Pardeller
