African Design/2016/7 min/Reel № 16.001
ByFrancois Knoetze
Francois Knoetze on representations of waste and consumer culture
Experience the Wonder of Creativity/Recorded 2016
A close reading, kept within reach.
Francois Knoetze takes african design as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in South Africa in 2016, the conversation is grounded in Francois's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
Performance artist Francois Knoetze's trash monsters are a bleak and beautiful reflection of our consumer culture and the waste it creates.
About the speaker
Francois Knoetze
Cape Town/South Africa
Francois Knoetze is a performance artist, sculptor and filmmaker. His work traces the life cycles of discarded objects.
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