KNOW HOW, the theme of the fifth Tallinn applied art triennial, will challenge participants to cast aside artist-, designer- and producer-centred approaches, to share their professional know-how, and to offer exhibition visitors an opportunity to (re-)create the items themselves.
The exhibition welcomes high-quality designs where the artist is behind the concept and form—but the actual production of the items makes a transition to the users.
Artists will be requested to submit to the exhibition a (sample) work as well as instructions on how to make it. Both will be put on display. The instructions should not merely be a description of how the work was created, but rather a manual for the exhibition visitor explaining how to re-create the object. Text and photographs can be used, as well as freehand and computer graphics, stencilling, and many other techniques. The exhibition will also have a website where virtual visitors will be able to download manuals. The exhibition catalogue will feature the sample works as well as instructions on how to make them.
KNOW HOW is statement: good design rests on a good idea. As such, the quality of work must be preserved even if concept and execution are separated from each other. KNOW HOW will allow ordinarily passive exhibition-goers to become participants in the design process.
Deadline: 30 March 2009
Kärt Maran
exhibition curator
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GENERAL INFORMATION ● The triennial is international with no geographical restrictions. It is open to both professionals and university students. The artist must hold the copyright to his or her own work, and the work may not have been created under an academic supervisor. ● Artists are requested to submit a work based on the KNOW HOW theme accompanied by instructions on how to make the work—i.e., a manual. ● Forms in PDF format are furnished for preparing the manuals. They can be downloaded by clicking on the download link above. ● The PDF forms are to be printed out in A4 format and filled in by hand. If desired, the forms may be partially filled in on computer as well and then printed out. |
● Filled-in manuals will be scanned and then used in the catalogue and the exhibition. ● Please fill in forms in Estonian or English. ● If you would like to enter more than one work, one set of forms must be filled in for each work, with a sepa rate CD included for each work (see below). The materials for each work are to be sent in a separate envelope. ● All filled-in and printed-out entry forms and CDs must be sent by 30
March 2009 to the address: |
