Life on display: design in discourses of art
Tuesday, 30 November 2021, 19:00
Online, please register
Discussion and book presentation in German with Helmut Draxler (professor of art theory, University of Applied Arts, Vienna) and Burkhard Meltzer (author, lecturer for design theory, Zurich University of the Arts)
Moderated by Sophia Prinz (chair for the history and theory of design, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste)
What is known as “contemporary art” today, appears to be unthinkable without design discourses. The recently published monograph Das ausgestellte Leben (Life on Display) by Burkhard Meltzer has extensively explored this proposition. Observations and consequences of the publication will be discussed with a special focus on relations between aesthetic and social questions.