Discussions about Politics and Design
Ze Dos Bois, Lisbon, September, 20-21, 2007.
Conferences on the occasion of the finissage of Societe Realiste's
Transitioners exhibition.
Participants: Eric Alliez (Paris), Vicken Cheterian (Geneva), Cosmin
Costinas (Vienna), Jose Neves (Lisbon) and Olivier Schefer (Paris).
Ze Dos Bois is currently presenting the exhibition Transitioners, a project
by the Paris-based artistic cooperative, Societe Realiste. Transitioners is
a trend design agency specialized in political transitions. Transposing the
principles of prospective design, generally used by "fashion trend
agencies", to the field of politics, Societe Realiste questions the
revolution (transition?) as a central category for the contemporary western
society. Transitioners surveys the mutations of the revolution as a form.
How a "democratic transition" can be produced? What is the role of design in
the permanent conversion of politics into mythology? How the effect of an
event on people can be transformed into a controlled affect?
On the occasion of the exhibition's finissage, Ze Dos Bois and Societe
Realiste presents a conferences and debates program, entitled "Discussoes=
a
proposito de politica e design".
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2007, 7pm.
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i/ INTRODUCTION.
By Societe Realiste
Societe Realiste will introduce the participants of these discussions=
and
reformulate some key points of the Transitioners project, from its genesis
to its main aesthetical and political perspectives. Some topics to be
discuss during the two-days conference will be synthetized, from the
problematics of an artistic science to an experimental approach of design,
from the necessity of understanding the main integration strategies of Late
Capitalism politics to some linkage between different chapters of the recent
history of political revolutions.
ii/ GREY WEATHER AT LA GRANDE JATTE : SEURAT VERSUS DUCHAMP.
By Eric Alliez
(In French)
"Discussions about Politics and Design", Ze Dos Bois (Lisbon) September, 20-21, 2007.
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Discussions about Politics and Design
Ze Dos Bois, Lisbon, September, 20-21, 2007.
Conferences on the occasion of the finissage of Societe Realiste's
Transitioners exhibition.
Participants: Eric Alliez (Paris), Vicken Cheterian (Geneva), Cosmin
Costinas (Vienna), Jose Neves (Lisbon) and Olivier Schefer (Paris).
Ze Dos Bois is currently presenting the exhibition Transitioners, a project
by the Paris-based artistic cooperative, Societe Realiste. Transitioners is
a trend design agency specialized in political transitions. Transposing the
principles of prospective design, generally used by "fashion trend
agencies", to the field of politics, Societe Realiste questions the
revolution (transition?) as a central category for the contemporary western
society. Transitioners surveys the mutations of the revolution as a form.
How a "democratic transition" can be produced? What is the role of design in
the permanent conversion of politics into mythology? How the effect of an
event on people can be transformed into a controlled affect?
On the occasion of the exhibition's finissage, Ze Dos Bois and Societe
Realiste presents a conferences and debates program, entitled "Discussoes=
a
proposito de politica e design".
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2007, 7pm.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
i/ INTRODUCTION.
By Societe Realiste
Societe Realiste will introduce the participants of these discussions=
and
reformulate some key points of the Transitioners project, from its genesis
to its main aesthetical and political perspectives. Some topics to be
discuss during the two-days conference will be synthetized, from the
problematics of an artistic science to an experimental approach of design,
from the necessity of understanding the main integration strategies of Late
Capitalism politics to some linkage between different chapters of the recent
history of political revolutions.
ii/ GREY WEATHER AT LA GRANDE JATTE : SEURAT VERSUS DUCHAMP.
By Eric Alliez
(In French)