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Congress of Spoons
An exhibition by the Master Space and Communication HEAD — Genève
09.04.2019 — 14.04.2019
11pm — 8pm
c/o Galleria Mimmo Scogliamiglio
Brera Design District
Via Goito 7
20121 Milano
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Expanding upon the graduation project of Eleonora Pizzini the students and alumni of MA Space & Communication, HEAD-Genève, present Congress of Spoons.
Congress of Spoons is a demonstration of the narrative power of set design in exhibitions. Through the creation of a series of contextualising cabinets, installations, performances and devices for the very same object, a spoon, the exhibition investigates the obsessive, uncomfortable and shifting role of objects and our relationships with them. By exploring the ways in which different modes of exhibition reveal our agency in these object-human relationships, it questions our anthropocentric approach and exposes the potential otherness of the object itself.
In this exhibition the spoon stands as the ultimate proxy, a tool able to represent the value of objects in our culture. It appears across history and was one of the first tools to be carved by humans. It is ubiquitous and remarkable for its quotidian character. It was essential to the survival and development of humankind but today it passes beneath notice. Despite its omnipresence in the history of human civilisation, it remains much the same tool as when it was first carved. Everyone has used one.
Confronted by these displays, the visitor is faced with the equivocal nature of the object. The spoon is observed, dissected, elevated, recorded, melted, filmed, re-formed, played, mystified and demystified, not to ascertain some ineffable essence of the object itself but rather to lay bare the manner in which we imbue objects with meaning and mythologize them.
The spoon is the mid 19th century design Baguette, created by Sola, Switzerland, for the brasseries and bistros of Paris.
Eleonora Pizzini
CONGRESS OF SPOONS
EPISODE 1
An infinite loop of endless spoons, surrounds the viewer in a hypnotic dance.
Eleonora Pizzini
CONGRESS OF SPOONS
EPISODE 2
A brilliant red totem, seemingly impenetrable, keeps hidden inside one precious spoon.
Eleonora Pizzini
CONGRESS OF SPOONS
EPISODE 3
An indirect light invites the viewer to peek under and regard the spoon above with reverence.
#congressofspoons #eleonorapizzini #storytelling #relic #infinite #totem
Sofie Lutgart Deckers
THE MONUMENT
Through a window into another world, you see a familiar shape yet something is different. The dislocation and disproportionate scale of what you see provoke an unsettling feeling and an awareness of insignificance in the face of this giant object: is it a relic of the past or rather a sign of the future? Is it worshipped as a deity or a monument of dictatorial repression?
#themonument #sofielutgartdeckers #diorama #collage #monument #scale
Salômé Guillemin-Poeuf
THE CLOUD SPLITTER
The Cloud Splitter is an obelisk, an uncanny monument or a communication device that question the communication ability of people and how they react in front the unknown.
#thecloudsplitter #salomeguilleminpoeuf #obelisk #archeologyoffuturepast #deepsound #drone
Naoyuki Kiyota
SPOON PALACE
Spoon Palace is an international destination for the jet set spoon community. It is an imaginary hotel where humans are not the guests, but spoons are. It is not designed for optimal utility as a kitchen isle but rather for maximum comfort of the spoon guests.
#spoonpalace #naoyukikiyota #hotel #narrative #metaphor #スプーン #ホテル #スプーン建築 #隠喩
Beatriz Granado and Helena Bosch Vidal
PEEP O-SCOPE
Rock back and forth and use one’s own movements to create an arousing personal visual experience. Peep o-scope proposes a kinetic representation of the spoon animated through individual interplay.
#peepo-scope #beatrizgranado #helenaboschvidal #peepshow #kaleidoscope #kinetic #animation
Chrystel Orsatti
STATE OF SPOON
Object-witness: memories of form, ergonomics, sensations.
Design-memories: traces of uses and conditions of materiality.
Analysis of the object-matter and its possible otherness.
Digital archaeology to seek humanity’ traces.
Forms, functions, cultures, time, limits, program, subject.
Information.
Spoon-hint for a possible state of reality.
A superimposition of the spoon over a visual database of spoons collected from different sources viewed through a microfilm reader.
#stateofspoon #chrystelorsatti #database #microfilm #digitalarchaeology #remnants
Capucine Bily
HIDE-OUT
The more valuable an object is, the more likely it is that we will keep it secreted away from prying eyes. The inherent contradiction in this impulse is that we must deprive ourselves of the experience of using and enjoying the object to keep it safe. Such guarded objects however lose their utility and are only contemplated, never used.
#hideout #capucinebily #obsession #preciousness #surveillance #security
Maïa Vaillant
DISTORT RECIPROCITY PHENOMENA
A spoon spins slowly in a glass bubble, deformed and distorted through the warped glass. The effect of the glass and the perpetual motion of the spoon do not interfere with our perception of the spoon’s presence despite rendering an exact perception of its appearance impossible.
#distortreciprocityphenomena #maïavaillant #deformation #distortion #reflection #perception
Malak Mebkhout
HIGHRISE
A staging of J.G. Ballard’s 1975 science fiction novel, High Rise, with spoons portraying every character in the dystopian thriller.
#highrise #malakmebkhout #fictiondesign #objetsirene #mermaidobject #mlkmbkht #countachstudio
Jeanne Pasquet and Netillo Rojas
THE MOST DANGEROUS SPOON ON EARTH
Inside a hermetically sealed enclosure chamber rests what appears to be an ordinary spoon but what seems like fun may in fact be far more sinister. Put your hands in the gloves and take a chance with The Most Dangerous Spoon on Earth.
#themostdangerousspoononearth #jeannepasquet #netillorojas #danger #freak #attraction #glovebox #science #smoke
Lucile Burnier and Maëva Dubrez
THE DISAPPEARING SPOON
It is a spoon that slips away every hour during the Congress. It evaporates, or more exactly, it melts down, drop by drop.
#thedisappearingspoon #lucileburnier #maëvadubrez. #magic #disappear #mysterious #liquid
THE DISAPPEARING SPOON
Samy Bouard-Cart, Jozef Eduard Masarik, Pau Saiz and Claire Terraillon
FILM
Film created for the original concept of The Disappearing Spoon by Lucile Burnier and Maëva Dubrez
#thedisappearingspoon #lucileburnier #maëvadubrez. #magic #disappear #mysterious #liquid
Emma Pflieger and Océane Izard
SPOON ON MARS
The United States Space Force has successfully manned a mission to Mars. As the Americans explore the Red Planet and claim it as their own in their endless imperialist expansion across the cosmos, we might ask: what exactly will they find? The discovery of the first Martian spoon changes everything back on Earth, even the very systems of government that enabled the mission of its discovery.
#spoononmars #emmapflieger #oceaneizard #martian #spaceforce #redplanet #mars
Julien Baiamonte
SUPER NAUGHTY
An exceptional bundle of items is proposed to the public: the famous spoons touched and used by celebrity guests from the Surrealist Dinner party of the Baroness Rothschild (1972). These spoons are the only physical testament to the heyday of the Elite balls of the 1970s, and it is now offered here as part of the «Celebrities Items Collection».
#supernaughty #julianbaiamonte #auction #fetishism #celebrityitemscollection #paraphernalia
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