Design Exhibited
<p>Does the activity of exhibiting resemble the process of assigning meaning in language? By showing cultural artefacts of different authors, one necessarily makes links. If an exhibition is presented to an audience and retold in conversation, its spatial choreography gives rise to a syntax. Experience and perception are translated into linguistic expression. Thus, the act of exhibiting has close ties with the communicative activity of organizing the show, and with texts and discussions. Design then adds an action-based level to this communicative dimension — actions which, as one walks through the exhibition space, are at least imaginable, and in some cases actually performed there. Grammars of absence always point to something else. Something that is more or less distant or only conceivable as a loose association — between the physical encounter with what is present and the linguistic or action-based links of what is absent…</p>
Publisher: Dorothee Richter, Michael Birchall, Silvia Simoncelli
Editors: Burkhard Meltzer, Tido von Oppeln, Sarah Owens
Contributors: Burkhard Meltzer, Tido von Oppeln, Sarah Owens, Konstantin Grcic, Mamiko Otsubo, Urs Lehni, Jan Boelen, Tobias Madison
Transcriber: Dennis Eden, Frank Hesse
Translators: Nicolas Grindell
Proofreader: Michael Birchall
Designer: Jeannine Herrmann, Linus Hunkeler, Daniele Kaehr
Part of: OnCurating
ISSN: 2673-2904