The Design Week in Jerusalem opens at the Hansen House and will last until Thursday, June 30, and will feature dozens of unique installations, exhibitions, events and projects by more than 150 Israeli and international designers.
This year's works are grouped on the theme of "for now" which refers to the fact that technological progress, social earthquakes and ecological uncertainty make the future unpredictable, the past unpredictable, and produce a kind of "past present" in which we live.
Artists actually examine the temporality of design and the shaping of temporality in this reality, while addressing the question of how time can be harnessed as a tool to use it, and to make a positive impact in an uncertain space.
"Design Week has been going on for 11 years and each time we choose a topical and contemporary theme, out of looking at our lives as well," explains Anat Safran, the artistic director.
"After the past two years, there is a sense that the future is becoming less and less predictable, the forward look is vague and we also can not really look back, because everything that has happened is already undermined through our current prisms that reshape the past. What we have left is now, the time we live at him".
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"What's left now", Photo: Dor Kedmi
Yam Materso (32), a multidisciplinary designer and artist, presents this week together with the group "The Analog Front" (the artists duo Arik Putterman and Ariel Sanfiri).
"My work is called" ppm418. " "In light of our obsession with technological change," she says.
Difficulty predicting you future, Photo: Front generation
"In the 1990s, there was a study in Antarctica in which they drilled an ice core, through which the researchers were able to reconstruct the history of the atmosphere. As a tribute to this study, I took an image of ice as a representative measure from March 10, 2022. Descending and trapping air in the atmosphere, represents this specific day. I treated ice as a fossil that stores data that describes the climatic history of our planet. .
"Our Obsession with Technological Change",
What did you want to say in this work?
"Last summer I volunteered with a delegation of activists in Iceland who help scientists examine how global warming is affecting the Arctic Sea. And this is our biggest test - if we can cooperate with it. "
Artist Jordan Colsey presents for the first time at Design Week, and his work deals with the stuck present present.
Colsey has given the office copier a new life and a special interpretation in his work called "Copier."
"This is the first time I'm attending design week in the country, and in my work I took an office copier, one that always gets stuck and makes trouble, and I actually 'hacked' it and bypassed its blast. The machine was broken and now it produces one big loop of page, like a worm. .
"I'm excited about the disruptive move,"
"I'm excited about the disruptive move, I see a machine and see what it can do and how this thing that is so generic and everyday goes wrong. I'm in a relationship with the routine, the everyday, the office stuff, the 9 to 17 routine. As an artist I look at all of these. "As something that has already been disturbed. I leave the broad interpretation to the viewers."
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