Postmodernism The Post Modern Manifesto
In connection to the Manifesto • Our design language is complex • Rejecting the principles of Modernism, such as functionality and structure • Can be easily interpreted by the viewer– as a cube structure, everyone can see it differently
The unpublished declaration found next to the deathbed of the father of deconstructionist theory - Jacques Derrida . A manuscript entitled The post Modernist Manifesto, where he put his believes along with two others - Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault. 1 . The art of the past is past. What was true of art yesterday is false today. • 2. The Post modern art of today is defined and determined, not by artists, but by • and able to ignore it. a new generation of curators, philosophers and intellectuals ignorant of the past 3. Postmodernism is a political undertaking, Marxist and Freudian. • 4. Postmodernism is a new cultural condition. • 5. Postmodernism is democratic and allied to popular culture. • 6. Postmodernism denies the possibility of High Art. • 7. Postmodernism deconstructs works of High Art to undermine them. • 8. Postmodernism is subversive, seditiously resembling the precedents it mimics. • 9. Postmodern art is pastiche, parody, irony, ironic conflict and paradox. • provocative and endlessly repeatable. 10. Postmodern art is self-consciously shallow, stylistically hybrid, ambiguous, • 11. Postmodern art is anti-elitist, but must protect its own elitism. • 12. To the Postmodernist every work of art is a text, even if it employs no words • interpreted. and has no title, to be curatorially interpreted. Art cannot exist before it is 13. Postmodernist interpretation depends on coining new words unknown and • unknowable to the masses, on developing a critical jargon of impenetrable significance. Vive le Néologisme! profundity, and on a quagmire of theory with which to reinforce endowed (HALL, 2019)
No High or Low art 6. Postmodernism denies the possibility of High Art.
A FOLLOWER “ Good taste was the bad thing they were fighting against” Memphis group
Connection to ‘Home’ How our work relates to the book
‘Rooms to which the individual could retreat from public view came into being’ Our intention is provide individual spaces where people can be alone in their own private space
‘It was only when my wife and I built our own home that I discovered at first hand the fundamental poverty of modern architectural ideas .’ ‘homeliness is not neatness’
‘Chests served as both storage and seats’ We intend to create multifunctional stairs that act as storage as well as an intentional pathway for the users to access the sleeping spaces
‘There was much beautiful furniture, but it appeared uncomfortably forlorn pushed against the walls of huge rooms unrelieved by any nooks or crannies .’
‘Lately I’ve been thinking how comfort is perhaps the ultimate luxury ’ – Billy Baldwin Comfort - a state of physical ease and freedom from pain or constraint. Even though our design is minimalist, our aim is to create a space where people are comfortable and safe
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