Dunbar's Number

Opening: 16th of November at 7PM Exhibition duration: 17th of November - 23rd of December 2016 Location: AAA - Gallery Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Vienna Link: http://www.galerie-mam.com/index/index.php?id=11&subid=1&nr=643

A project by Dunbar’s Number and AAA Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art / Design + Projects

Works by Sonja Bäumel, Maarten De Ceulaer, Commonplace Studio, Officina Corpuscoli, David Derksen, Studio Formafantasma, Marlène Huissoud, mischer’traxler and Martin Robitsch.

The exhibition „The Living Room“ created by „Dunbar’s Number“ – an association existing of the studios Sonja Bäumel, mischer’traxler, Martin Robitsch, Konstantin Schmölzer as well as the curator Judith Radlegger – focuses on the processes of transformations of the natural and cultural.

The line between the artificial and the nature gets dissolved while the formation process becomes more decisive for creations and the concept of design is fortified with the emphasis on processuality. The exhibited objects describe an ephemeral condition, are subject to continual change or a snapshot of a natural process.

Already the first exhibition of „Dunbar’s Number“ concentrated on constant changes of states and „mutation“ became a self-reflexion. Now in the third exhibition project of the collective, the participating designers and artists go even further by conceiving the macro- and microcosm „Living Room“ as place where life happens and by emphasizing the experience of the selected projects. 

Besides works by Sonja Bäumel, mischer’traxler and Martin Robitsch also invited projects that have the idea of formation process in common, will be exhibited.

Dunbar's Number - SAGENHAFT

In 2014 Dunbar’s Number invites four design studios from Asia to Vienna for an inter­cultural exchange. Each studio has a regional saga in its baggage as anchorage point for regional culture and develops this and a saga from each other cultural sphere. The resulting interpretations by designers who have been shaped by other cultures aim to build a bridge between Asia and Europe.

Designers: Ama Hung Pin Hsueh, Sonja Bäumel, Chester Chuang, Gina Hsu Ching-Ting, Hoko Studio, mischer’traxler, Martin Robitsch, Konstantin Schmölzer

SAGENHAFT WE ARE OPEN

Sonja Bäumel (AT/NL)

www.sonjabaeumel.at

mischer’traxler (AT)

www.mischertraxler.com

KØJE (AT)

www.konstantin-schmoelzer.com

Martin Robitsch (AT)

www.martinrobitsch.com

Gina Hsu Ching-ting (TW)

www.dhhstudio.com

Hsiang Ching Chuang (TW/NL)

www.hsiangchingchuang.com

Hoko Studio (SG)

www.hokostudio.com

Ama Hung Pin Hsueh (TW)

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Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von

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Cocktail: Sa 27.9., 18–22 Uhr (https://www.facebook.com/events/1520076284891387)

Diskussion „in dialogue“: So 28.9., 16 Uhr (englisch)

MISCHER'TRAXLER

Cuprum

Drawing Time

www.mischertraxler.com

KONSTANTIN SCHMÖLZER

Sedes Cohorresco | Zoetrope

www.konstantin-schmoelzer.com

SONJA BÄUMEL

Expanded Self

Landscapes

www.sonjabaeumel.at

Dunbar's Number was founded as an association in 2011. The collective consists of the studios Sonja Baumel, mischer'traxler, Konstantin Schmölzer & curator Judith Radlegger and presents works that deal with the change of a thought, a realization of a product or an activity in the exhibition "Mutationen" . Mutation is understood in the natural sciences as permanent change in genetic material. For the participating designers the notion of mutation is to be understood as self-reflection. Therefore this topic will be processed under consideration as the modification of existing structures, definitions and schemas. Mutation as a snapshot of visualization is the subject and content of the exhibition.

Experiment: 2 days workshop A photosynthesis workshop as a test assembly for the whole

Unter Mutation versteht man in den Naturwissenschaften eine dauerhafte Veränderung des Erbgutes – in den Kunstwissenschaften definiert sich Mutation jedoch als gedankliche Weiterentwicklung, die für die Kunst- und Kulturproduktion unabdingbar ist. Die Veränderung und der Progress eines Gedanken, einer Erkenntnis, eines Produktes oder einer Tätigkeit ist der Antrieb ein jeder Forschung und die Mutation als solche ein erklärtes Ziel. Die Deklination bestehender Produkte unter Einbeziehen anderer Wissenschaften veranlasste mischer’traxler beispielsweise eine Partizipations-Maschine zu entwickeln, die nur vollständig funktioniert, wenn sich der Betrachter aufmerksam dieser nähert oder ließ Sonja Bäumel den Begriff der „Haut“ neu überdenken und mit Hilfe von Wissenschaftern eine „second skin“ aus Bakterien kreieren.

Die Vienna Design Week 2012 wird im ‘Gschwandner’ eröffnet. Neben “designing the future mobility”, diversen Ausstellungen und einem Pop-Up Café präsentiert Dunbar’s Number in den Räumlichkeiten des Gschwandners eine Ausstellung mit Objekten zum Thema ‘Mutationen’.