Dialogues between contemporary art and design: intervention tatics in everyday life

• Grant number: 12/07843-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: October 01, 2012
• End date: April 30, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning - Fundamentals of Architecture and Urbanism
• Principal Investigator: Fábio Lopes de Souza Santos
• Grantee: Marilia Solfa
• Host Institution: Instituto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de São Carlos (IAU). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research project discusses the renewed interest in contemporary art in rescuing and re-shaping the modernistic discussion about the relationship between art and design, a new approach that differs from the earlier modernist proposals, since it answers to the unique social and economic context in which it develops. By analyzing the works of artists like Allan McCollum (1944), Barbara Bloom (1951), Andrea Zittel (1965), Vito Acconci (1940) and Ana Maria Tavares (1958), this research addresses the tactics of artistic intervention, in this case, in the discourse of the Design and in the system of production and consumption of objects and environments within the capitalist society, through which artists seek an opportunity, even if temporary, to intervene in a world increasingly designed and planned in every detail.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

SOLFA, Marilia. Design: ways to [mis] use. Contemporary relationships between art and design. 2017. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD) São Carlos.