Manuel Raeder — BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE
Studio Manuel Raeder is an interdisciplinary design studio exploring the boundaries between exhibitions, ephemera, books, type design, editing, publishing, textile and furniture design. Manuel is joining us from Berlin to expand on the studios’ deep involvement in editorial and spatial narratives, as well as its interest in the meaning of books within space, the archive and the future of libraries.
Noura Tafeche — On the threshold of UwU horror
Noura Tafeche is an Italian-Palestinian visual artist and independent researcher. Through a lecture performance at the Tangle, she introduced her research project “Kawayoku Inception” on the visual representation of violence in internet subcultures. We learned about the meaning of images and together questioned the way we learn from online visual culture.
FISK – Our Oval World
Iranian-American designer Bijan Berahimi is the founder of the creative multispace FISK: a studio, gallery and store located in Portland, Oregon. Since 2009, when FISK began as a graphic design collective while Bijan was studying at California Institute of the Arts, it has become an ongoing project based around culture, community and commerce through the lens of art and design.
Oaza Kolektiv: Designing with/for friends and neighbors
Visual communication designer Maša Poljanec joined us in Copenhagen, representing the design and publishing collective Oaza from Zagreb. Since 2013 the six founders of Oaza have been engaged in a collective practice spanning design, research, curation, publishing and more.
Wang & Söderström: Together in an ecology of technology
From the point of view of their hybrid practice which spans the physical and the digital, Copenhagen-based studio Wang & Söderström reflected upon how the world is changing through technology in their talk at the Tangle.
Studio Safar: Design is Inherently Political
Graphic designer Maya Moumne joined us at the tangle representing Studio Safar – a design and art direction studio based in both Beirut and Montreal. Across seven time zones, Safar (meaning “travel” in Arabic) creates cross-cultural and interlingual visual communication.
Tenthaus: Individual needs in the collective organism
Artist Jacky Jaan-Yuan Kuo and artistic researcher Valentina Martinez joined us at the tangle to represent the Oslo based art collective Tenthaus. Itself a tangle of artistic outputs, Tenthaus currently encompasses both a project room and an exhibition space, a mobile studio, and a wide range of curatorial projects. They focus on local contexts exploring collectivity and inclusion through different forms of engagement.
Sophie Douala: Time / Space / Distance
Sophie is a Berlin based, France raised, Cameroon born artist and creative director specialised in storytelling and creative campaigns. In her practice and life, she seeks to explore the interplay between a formal visual language and its cognitive and emotional affect. Sophie’s aesthetics are both very personal and immediately inviting to the audience, mixing the painful with the colorful, and politics with beauty. In her lecture we learn more about how and why Sophie Douala inserts herself in her complex and immersive work.
Noam Youngrak Son: Going domestic, doing together
Noam often physically inserts themselves in their work in a simultaneously personal and performative manner. Based in Ghent, praciticing communication design and deviant, queer publishing, they attempt to convey the stories of marginalized bodies which often include that of themselves into designed forms that do not conform to the cis-hetero-normative and colonial power structure.
Yehwan Song: Unfriendly User-friendliness
Yehwan Song is a coder and designer based in Seoul, South Korea, who comes to digital technology with a sharp, critical eye. Yehwan Song gave a talk on March 26th 2022, for the Symposium day of the Post Design Tangle.