Design resistance
exposition
At the announcement of the International Artist in Residence of Debrecen 2018 programme, two concepts, which are already complex on their own, were forced into a non-existent compound. We intend to make these concepts affect each other with more intensity through concentration and radicalise the train of thoughts that began a year ago. In the 2017 edition of the AIRD, which focused on the “Designed Artwork”, we asked: what the relationship between design and artwork as well as design and visual art is. The response of a part of the artists has proved that the design – the rational problem-solving planning – is extremely attractive in the everyday craftsmanship and visual art as well; nevertheless, some of them considered the independent self-expression as remedy for the all-embracing practice of design.