Lafayette Anticipation associate curator Anna Colin talks to artist Tyler Coburn about Ergonomic Futures, a speculative project engaged with art, design, science, anthropology and writing. In this interview, Coburn discusses the research, production process and network of collaborators of a multilayered project ultimately concerned with the futures of humankind. Anna Colin: When one comes across your museum seats Ergonomic Futures (2016—) in contemporary art exhibitions—and soon in natural history, fine art, and anthropology museums—they look… [read more »]
A senior furniture crit
The most memorable work from the 2011 graduates of the RISD Furniture Department in order of presentation (All photos by Eric Zhou):
Lui Kawasumi
Umbrellas that expand upon the work of Joonsoo Kim, Joo Youn Paek, Seung Hee Son, Hironao Tsuboi, Liu Hsiang-Ling, Gerwin Hoogendoorn, and Stephanie Tharp
Professor Christopher Specce is using one of the umbrellas
Vivian Chiu
The Pixel Chair – A meditative process, reprocessed
Designer and Critic Lindsay Adelman is sitting in the chair
Frances Kao
Wish Table – Post-nieve neo-hippie stuff for Temporary Autonomous Zones v3.1
Natalie Hirsh
Stockade Shelf – Accessible bondage utilities for fetish within reach
A friend of the designer is restrained in the shelf
Evan Murphy
The Ammut bed as seen on AFHV illustrated by R. Crumb in a neo-classical style. Comedy in furniture similar to Colen, Hirst, and the Chapmans
S. Adrian III is sitting on the bed
Misha Khan
Tables and Chandeliers – Composites in a screensaver as a table like Geatano Pesce doing Steampunk or cozy mixed-media like Hella Jongerius
Overall there was mixing, mechanism, parametrics, permutation, and wit all wrestling within the big history of RISD.
