Jerszy Seymour, designer,
born in 1968 in Berlin
Jerszy Seymour’s work is concerned with design as the
generalist project, the creation of life situations, as a guide
book and tools for the new world adventurer. His work spans
from collaborations with companies such as Vitra, Magis
and Alessi
to works in museums, galleries and in the streets
that criticize the capitalistic consumer economy and seek to
renegotiate
our relationship to the constructed and natural
environment, to other people and ourselves based on a freedom
of libidinal energy. His early Scum projects, whilst investigating
the free form possibilities of foaming materials,
sought to create design
as a zero situation, a place existing
outside of morals, taste and society, an idea of design-initself
as if the hegelian being-in-itself were brought into to
a real life situation. His following Living Systems, referring
to Henry David Thoureau’s Walden, explored the idea of the
individual economy
as an existential position which developed
into the series of Amateur projects, a project which
proposes
the possibilty
of the Amateur society
(meaning
lover, appassionato
and non-
professional as a way of being).
The Workshop Chair is the result of a
series
of exhibitions
proposing the possibility
of the amateur society based on
the ideas of doing, sharing
and being and the transformation
of the consumer into amateur. Using wax as a construction
material and as a metaphor for bringing together different
things and people, it offers itself as a platform for utopic
discussion and as a functional object that is easily made by
anybody.
JERSZY SEYMOUR, Workshop Chair,
Edition Amateur Workshop, 2009.
Wood and amateur wax (capa).
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