PUBLIC MARKS from oqdbpo with tags exhibition & live

Introduction We are facing a planet that is slowly disintegrating by pollution and global warming. We live in a society that is sadly corrupted by violence and inequality. And in which poverty goes hand in hand with over consumption. Our world certainly is a dysfunctional world. This exhibition focuses on a group of young designers who operate both as producers and social engineers. In their desire for an instantly engaged attitude, they reinterpret their own environment to offer useful and ingenious suggestions for design that can be at once critical, functional and witty. Using prosaic materials, found or recycled objects, and by reassembling and reconstructing old and new, they address environmental problems, gender issues, and politics of space, or simply press for a more human face of design. Not without humour they trigger awareness of our patterns of behaviour. And by exploring the symbolic values of the objects that surround us, they remind us that while we all share the dream of living in a better world we are equally responsible for creating or at least sustaining it. The participants in the exhibition are students or recent graduates of Konstfack from different departments, including Interior Design and architecture, Industrial Design, Glass and Ceramics and Textiles. Renée Padt, Curator

Tour Dates (updated on 27 March 2008) Wed 23 April, 21h-4h // Exclusive Tour Launch Party, Le Baron // Tokyo (members guests only) Thu 24 April, 19h // Presentation at Pecha Kucha Night, SuperDeluxe // Tokyo Mon 28 April, 14.30h // Screening Talk at Image Forum Festival // Tokyo Tue 29 April to Sun 11 May // Exhibition at Film Studio 1928, Dohjidai Gallery of Art // Kyoto Wed 30 April, 17h // Screening at Image Forum Festival // Tokyo Mon 5 May, 18h // Mini-Screening AV Live Performance at Apple Store Ginza // Tokyo Wed 7 May, 19h // Screening Talk at Uplink Factory // Tokyo Thu 8 May, 19h // Screening Talk at Uplink Factory // Tokyo Sat 10 May, 23.59h-4h // AV Live Set with Salmon (JP) at Minimal Tokyo, Liquid Rooms // Tokyo