in collaboration with Sundaymorning@ekwc
Architect Tilmann Meyer-Faje focuses on the expression of the failure of the top-down idea. He formulates an independent expression that represents and cultivates the malleability of our environment via mass culture – expanding the materially expressed vocabulary of our lives and manipulating it by illuminating its hiccups (outpourings). The top-down chain of production, as set up by this architect, is a performance undermining conventional top-down efficiency.
Innovation is the current key word par excellence. Innovation is what glues together a tame past long gone and future that is supposed to enrich us. Innovation is about new materials, new techniques, and new expressions. Innovation transforms means into media, enthused by the current state of affairs. Innovation allows us to think outside the box and shakes up our comfort zone.
“Crack, workmanship and mastership: passing the test” presents the way in which these types of processes take place; the way in which artists in their usage of materials and applications arrive at new expressions. Sundaymorning@ekwc is part of the international avant-garde as regards experiments with materials and applications. Onomatopee is a platform which approaches the contemporary cultural dynamics of our designed culture in a progressive way, Sundaymorning@ekwc, an international oriented ceramic workplace, centre of exellence/artist in residency will host the passing; Onomatopee fine-tunes the test: a perfect cooperation!
“Crack” maps design processes, from culturally engaged motivation to technical development. “Crack” is searching for the experiment on the sharpest cultural edge. This lively project challenges you to step out of your comfort zone, to discover and experience. In what ways is your environment able to materially express itself? What does innovation mean for our material culture?
www.tilmann.nl
sundaymorning.ekwc.nl
Curators/editors: Ranti Tjan and Freek Lomme
Production: Freek Lomme
Graphic design: Remco van Bladel
Exhibition Design: Lara de Greef