Société Réaliste: Transitioners - London View, 28 November – 23 January, Berlin
(2009 11 24 20:14)
The opening of the exhibition takes place on Friday, 27 November at 7 p.m
Société Réaliste is a Parisian cooperative created by Ferenc Gróf and Jean-Baptiste Naudy in June 2004, working with political design, experimental economy, territorial ergonomy and social engineering consulting.
In 2006 it launched Transitioners, a "trend design agency" specialising in political transitions. Transposing the principles of trend forecasting generally used by the fashion industry to the field of politics, the project questions the revolution as a central category for contemporary Western society. How can a "democratic transition" be produced? What is the role of design in the permanent conversion of political flux into mythology? How can the effect of an event on citizens be transformed into a controlled affect?
Transitioners' clients are designers, who can use the bureau's proposals to design the revolutions to come: logotypes, color charts, lexical fields, etc.
Each new trend collection originates from a specific historical event. After venues in London and Novi Sad Transitioners presents at uqbar its 2009 collection London View inspired by the 1848 European Revolution. This collection approaches the "Year of Revolution" and the new political paradigm experienced in those days: the scheme of a synchronous and continental revolutionary attempt. The collection intends to highlight similar contemporary situations of disjunction between manifold revolutionary practices and standardized theoretical attempts.
On show at uqbar is a series of graphics, juxtaposed on the walls of the project space.
On Friday 27.11.2009 more exhibitions will be opening in the frame of the Kolonie Wedding weekend. A guided tour through the project spaces starts 7.30 p.m. at Prima Center, Biesenthaler Str. 24. From 9 p.m. the Smaragd Bar, Prinzenallee 80, offers drinks and music.
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