Date: December 1 (Sun), 2024 13:15 - 14:15
Venue:Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Foyer (1F Next to museum shop)
Admisson Fee: Free
PLATES is a periodical that serves as an editorial and curatorial response to contemporary design practice and criticism. Each issue dives into a specific topic that is pertinent to the design reality we live in, presented and archived in a series of image and textual plates in an organic, iterative and evolving format. PLATES can be visual, textual, tectonic and everyday. In its first iteration, PLATES presents collective voices of practitioners situated along overlaps or cracks between disciplines to rethink the subject “Manifesto vs. Manifest” in relation to their practice through this iterative lens. The manifesto as a category of writing feels fixed and loaded, while contemporary design operates on the intersection of many manifestos, sensationalism in media, technological hype, identity, geopolitics, social activism, inclusivity and misalignment, alt texts, screenshots, fragmented truth, psychic readings on TikTok, and endless advertisements everyday everywhere.
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RELATED DEPARTMENT
RELATED DEPARTMENT is an independent graphic design practice working with a variety of design forms and criticism in response to shifting contexts of post-colonial and digital landscapes. Their work has been exhibited at Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, Power Station of Art in Shanghai, Queens Museum in New York, TDC Traveling Exhibitions, San Francisco Design Week and China Academy of Art. RELATED DEPARTMENT has received a series of design awards, and has been featured by Wallpaper Magazine, Communication Arts, AIGA Eye on Design, Dazed, Adobe, It’s Nice That and Creative Boom.
Page Bureau
Page Bureau is an independent publishing project by RELATED DEPARTMENT, which functions as an auxiliary support system through active collaboration with emerging artists and designers. Employing alternative approaches of image-making and textual production, Page Bureau delivers printed matter and digital files of different voices with a primary focus on practitioners working in Asia or of the Asian diaspora. Page Bureau has participated in art book fairs internationally, lectured at various cultural and academic institutions, and been awarded Shannon Michael Cane Award from Printed Matter NYABF.
