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UseMe - RELAX
- Price
- $70.00
- Date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Optica
- Format
- Multiples
- ISBN
- 0-9680629
- Size
- 20 × 20 × 0.5 cm
- Length
- 0
- Genre
- Sculpture, Multiple
portable orange objects [polyester, foam filling]
useme*s are orange-colored, plastic pillows filled with foam, which were developed and tested during the confortable phase (1999). They enjoyed their public introduction during less aesthetics more ethics / Migration, 7th Architecture Biennial, Swiss Pavillion and Giardini, Venice/I in 2000. useme*s serve as the “crumple zone between human body parts and the chosen environs” (RELAX). Georg Christoph Lichtenberg had already known that a large part of our ideas depend on bodily position. Which is why the useme*s are oriented towards need and taste, are practical and portable and, in addition, ease back and neck pain that otherwise diverts thought processes.
(Excerpt from text by Susann Wintsch, in: we save what you give, monograph on RELAX, A project by edition fink through Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2006)
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