MUI

‘MUI’ OR ‘NO INTENTIONAL ACT’ IN JAPANESE, IT IS DESIGNED TO POSSESS THE PHYSICAL APPEARANCE AND FUNCTIONALITY THAT EMBODIES THE MEANING OF SUCH A WORD, ITS RECTANGULAR SHAPE IS SO SIMPLE THAT NO ONE WOULD CONSIDER THAT THIS PIECE OF WOOD IS ACTUALLY A TECHNOLOGICAL TOOL WITH A GREAT VARIETY OF FUNCTIONS.

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DO IT THAI VERSION

LAST WEEK, WE PICKED AN ARTICLE ABOUT THE EXPERIMENTAL ART EXHIBITION ‘DO IT’ WHICH FLEXIBLE AND OPEN-ENDED BY INVITING INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS TO SEND ‘INSTRUCTION’ TO CREATE AN ARTWORK INTERNATIONALLY THAT INCLUDED THAILAND. HERE, TAKE READ A SHORT CONVERSATION BETWEEN ART4D AND THE ARTISTS WHO PARTICIPATE IN A THAI VERSION OF DO IT, THAT TALK ABOUT THE BACKGROUND INCLUDED A WORKING METHOD FOLLOWING THE ‘INSTRUCTION’ THEY RECEIVED.

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ATRIO SERIES

ATRIO SERIES, GROHE’S ICONIC COLLECTION, WHICH DESIGN TEAM REDESIGNS THE PRODUCT LINE BY PRESERVING THE ORIGINAL DESIGN’S IDIOSYNCRATIC CURVED LINES AND CYLINDRICAL FORM WHEREAS ALL THE EXCESSIVE ELEMENTS ARE SIMPLIFIED. THE FINAL RESULT IS THE DESIGN OF THE FAUCET WHOSE SIMPLE YET SLEEK SILHOUETTES BESPEAK CLASSIC STYLISHNESS.

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DO IT AGAIN

HANS ULRICH OBRIST INITIATED ‘DO IT’ IN 1994 IN HOPE TO EXPERIMENT ON A MORE FLEXIBLE AND OPEN-ENDED EXHIBITION BY INVITING ARTISTS TO SEND ‘INSTRUCTION’ BEFORE THEY WERE TRANSLATED AND CIRCULATED INTERNATIONALLY. IN 1996, THE 14 INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE RENOWN ARTIST FINALLY MADE IT TO BANGKOK AND THE THAI VERSION OF ‘DO IT’ WAS REALIZED BY 11 THAI ARTISTS. LET’S SEE HOW THAT EXHIBITION TURNED OUT AT THE TIME.

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