Bunny Smash - design to touch the world

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Finished

Artists

Burak Arikan, Atelier Bow-Wow + Tokyo Tech + Tsukuba University, Bureau d’'études et al.

As the society of the 21st century becomes ever more complex, design must also undergo significant change. Rather than a design which pursues the ever-consumed “new”, a design which aims to change awareness towards society is becoming increasingly important. This exhibition spotlights just such design, introducing 21 groups of artists, designers and architects from around the world who take up the fragments of our increasingly accelerated information-saturated society and deliver them in a concrete form to our hands. Reading the world with a unique eye, they offer up unexpected ways of thinking and sensing, not only through our visual senses but through a holistic experience, which calls into question established structures of knowledge and information, pointing towards a more active means of engaging with the world. Just as Alice chased the white rabbit only to find herself in a strange wonderland, there is design which may bring such an experience as to change our perception of the world. In this exhibition we are invited by a rabbit into a wonderland, only to have our preconceptions shattered, hence the title “Bunny Smash”.

[Related Event]
Artist Talk
Date: 5th October(Sat) 15:00-17:30
Participants: Burak Arikan, Atelier Bow-Wow, Sputniko!, Daito Manabe, Shinichi Takemura, Sissel Tolaas, Judi Werthein and others
With English and Japanese translation

Yu Ishii Talk
Date: 3rd November(Sun) 15:00-17:00
Moderator: Toshinao Sasaki

Shinichi Takemura “Tangible Earth” Demonstration and Lecture
Date: 16th November(Sat), 21st December(Sat) 13:00-14:00

Forum “Design to Touch the World”
Date: 7th December(Sat) 15:00-17:00
Speakers: Taku Sato, Hiroshi Kashiwagi, Kenichiro Mogi, Yuko Hasegawa
For further details please refer to the museum website

Schedule

Oct 3 (Thu) 2013-Jan 19 (Sun) 2014