This is a brilliant, creative, and insightful installation, "dinning table politics", from my friend, English artist, Karen Ryan!!! We all have tooooo much "everything" and need to rethink our priorities ...... but, still be interesting, innovative, & tasty!!!
Karen's text explains it far better than I can!!!!
SO I've missed London Design Festival 2009
Exhibition on my dining table "dining table politics"
The discussion of politics whilst eating.
I made the choice not to show yet another object during London Design Festival 2009.This is what I did instead.
I unscrewed the table top of my second hand dining table, turned it over and
attached a wooden bar.
I then pasted a poster I had designed to the front of the table top.
I took this and lent it against several cafe and restaurant walls in Portsmouth.
Finally I returned the table top home and back to its legs so that I could eat dinner from it.
The poster designs intentionally use the visual language of protest posters.
The words of my causes become decorative to adorn dinner parties rather than marches.
My dichotomy between creativity, fashion, function, ethics, ideology and reality are laid out.
What is it to be a contemporary designer in 2009.
How important is the colour of the china, the pattern of the table cloth or the shape of the chair?
But life without imagination is life without hope.
I then pasted a poster I had designed to the front of the table top.
I took this and lent it against several cafe and restaurant walls in Portsmouth.
Finally I returned the table top home and back to its legs so that I could eat dinner from it.
The poster designs intentionally use the visual language of protest posters.
The words of my causes become decorative to adorn dinner parties rather than marches.
My dichotomy between creativity, fashion, function, ethics, ideology and reality are laid out.
What is it to be a contemporary designer in 2009.
How important is the colour of the china, the pattern of the table cloth or the shape of the chair?
But life without imagination is life without hope.
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