Material Utopias publication (2017)

Director documentation 2019-08-20

Louise Schouwenberg, Director of finished Temporary Programme Material Utopias (203-2015) edited the publication Material Utopias which was designed by Anja Groten, new Director of Main Department Design, and co-published by Sternberg Press and Sandberg Series in 2017.

Material Utopias is available sale via the Sandberg Series, an organisation supported by Sandberg Instituut.

In the slipstream of conceptual art, the intimate interweaving of meaning and materialization in art and design came to be discredited in the second half of the twentieth century. The master’s program Material Utopias at the Sandberg Instituut put an end to this tradition by abolishing the unproductive hierarchy separating “concept” and “making,” “content” and “process.” In this publication, various authors reflect on the history of dematerialization and deskilling, the manifold meanings of materials in art and design, and the challenges for education when the innovative power of the artistic process is celebrated.

Texts by Max Bruinsma, Amanda du Preez, Domeniek Ruyters, Louise Schouwenberg, Aaron Schuster, Tamar Shafrir

More information: https://sandbergseries.nl/shop/material-utopias