A Posed Question - for Contempo magazine
For Contempo’s third issue - please weigh in!
"A Posed Question" for Contempo mag - enter into the debate by responding to any of the following questions, via email, to copy [at] Contempo [dot] co [dot] za. You should get this to the editor by end of day 15 July.
- How do you differentiate between art & design?
- What role does design play in your artistic practice?
- How do socially engaged or non-commercial art play a role in your design?
- How do you differentiate the ‘roles’ that art and design play in our society?
LENGTH: Your response should not exceed 200 words
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CO-OPERATION
nathaniel & germaine (copy editor @ Contempo)
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[…] Contempo, (nice site styling, but all flash is a bit last century in my book, especially for a purveyor of things contemporary) the new and refreshingly convergent publication presenting homegrown creative style and cultural sophistication is posing an open question around the relationship of art and design. Imposing a 200 word limit is me thinks a good thing. So my unedited initial response to the question goes: Isn’t design and art simply sides of the same coin. Is there really any interesting or important differences beyond the superficial parameters of selective subjection to either mass-marketeering or mega-ego-mania cults monopolising culture? Being a tad airy-fairy-ical, but its late. Are there distinguishable attributes to the roles they play in society, when accepting the general notion of design as commerce oriented, technology biased, mediations on- interventions in- and inventions of production for consumption. In other words taking design as avatar, or temple of the great expansive ‘consumpteriate’. That in contrast with art as exponent of adoration fixated pursuit of showing, of adoring, of owning some idealised noble splendour? […]
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