<Desired Sync: Global Crisis & Design ver.2.0>

 

< Desired Sync> is the second of a series of exhibitions followed by the first exhibition, <Anxiety & Desire>, which Architects and Designers in New York City Teamed up to Develop Projects Addressing Currents Global Issues. The exhibition enlists twenty-two New York-based Korean architects and designers. <Desired Sync> is an experimental of people’s desire and efforts to resolve current global concerns, which then would be able to surmount when social systems, public realm and design professionals are synchronized together. Each work displayed in the show offers a unique perspective on issues of global crisis and furthers debates on it with a profound insight.

 

<Desired Sync> features works of twenty-two designers from various professionals: architects, landscape architects, interior designer, fashion designers, graphic designers, visual artists and interactive media artists. The show offers fourteen interdisciplinary projects, including one collaborating project by thirteen designers, envisioning people’s desire to overcome various crises confronting current events: Environmental crisis, energy crisis, economical and financial crisis, housing crisis etc.. These projects as a collection of ideas and provocations aim to create a network of idea exchange and new models of interactive, synergistic thinking beyond the initial multiplicities of profession. The exhibition furthermore significantly features <6+13+21>, a pavilion of collaboration project experimenting the six crises which is the expressive result of 3 month interdisciplinary discussion of 13 designers and artists. The work presented by young design professionals, who are sensitive to their own identity as well as painful social issues, is not only a result of significant research on fundamental inquiries of the human nature with facing matter of crises squarely what we are confronting these days but also worthy achievement of full-time employed designers beyond the boundary between the professions and limitation of time and space through the interdisciplinary collaboration. The exhibition expresses energetic efforts of New York-based young Korean designers and artists from various fields by sharing the idea and collaborating together beyond their profession to lead a global agenda.

 

 

Commissioning Curator: Changhaak Choi

Project Curator: K-Chan Zoh

SPONSORSHIP: Korean Cultural Center New York