“For the artist who wished to enlarger his understanding of vision in the direction of science, the grid was there as a matrix of knowledge. By it’s very abstraction, the grid conveyed one of the basic laws of knowledge – the separation of the perceptual screen from that of the “real” world.”
This by Rosalind Krauss was published in 1979. But I’ve discovered it when I was fascinated with the Fractal Cosmology concept and tried to imagine how things really are considering our limited perception… So I decided to draw grids in a way many modernists did, which would tell a story of possible reality and would be a basis for clothing at the same time.
One night I looked out of a window and saw two stairs but they were in different planes. I left home and went downstairs under the ground. In the morning I found myself at home. The mysterious square hole in the street has disappeared… I remember nothing but I feel pink fog in my head.
This is an object from the Taxing Art project by Beta Tank studio. They created tax ambiguous objects that can be classified equally under art or design categories and sent them around the world. There are specific criteria that define something as a work of art in the eyes of the law. These include process, quantity and functionality. For example a from the same Taxing Art project is made as it is half hand-made and half industrially made. The hand-made part of the table does not function as a table, thus under German tax regulations, that half must incur 7% VAT, while the functioning side must be 19% VAT…
The free flow of ideas – the ability for concepts to travel across continents, to communicate and provoke internationally, is essential to the process of innovation. Even while the world’s creative industries and studios broaden our horizons and expand possibilities, the realm of bureaucracy – comprising mundane and often obscure trade laws, customs procedures, and government polices, acts as a conservative check on the freedom of experimentation and innovation. Taxing Art project is a buoyantly ironic, clever case study and analysis of the effect of traditional, bureaucratic procedures on innovative work.
is a designer from Vancouver, Canada. Her works are influenced by her career in science. When I met her jewelery for the first time I had just read a book called “The Intelligent Eye” by the British author and my thoughts were totally captured by impossible figures. Her jewelery was inspired by the such figures and I’ve got a great pleasure looking at them.
One of Tania’s last designs is the actual seismogram of the 6.3M earthquake that rocked her home town in New Zealand. All the income from those pieces sales is going to the NZ Red Cross to help with disaster relief.
Now I’m a happy owner of an artificial molecule from her “Disposition Collection”.
Thanks Tanya for this beautiful gift!
