demedartsWalker Design
TAILORED MEMORY
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TAILORED MEMORY
Walker, Design by Ruth Mateus-Berr & Pia Scharler
Steel, shredded paper
70.00x260.00x70.00
2023
TAILORED MEMORY is a rollator (walking aid) that makes a statement about dementia itself. On the one hand, the shredded paper with which it is 'overgrown' represents the loss of memory caused by dementia; on the other hand, it can of course also be understood as an allusion to political scandals in which important evidence of corruption is made to disappear in this way. This also points to the 'invalidity' of democracy, which loses transparency as a result.
These rollators stand for Critical Design, a design style that criticizes things or conditions; here it draws attention to a deficiency in design and demands the right to self-determined and self-confident aesthetics. The objects are not intended for actual use, but should contribute to a change in design and politics.
DEMEDARTS is an artistic research project of the Center for Didactics for Art and Interdisciplinary Education at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), within the PEEK-program (Programm zur Erweiterung und Erschließung der Künste): A-609 ; Project DOI: 10.55776/AR609
The project runs from: February 2020 – January 2023
2024 Arte Laguna Prize for Art & Design. International Prize for Contemporary Art.
AWARD FUNDER: Italian Cultural association MoCA (Modern Contemporary Art)
Ruth Mateus-Berr and Pia Scharler