African Design/2016/8 min/Reel № 16.001
ByTony Gum
Tony Gum on nourishing and celebrating your personal art
Experience the Wonder of Creativity/Recorded 2016
A close reading, kept within reach.
Tony Gum 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 Tony'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.
Still an undergraduate, Tony Gum calls herself an “artist in learning” and talks about how she is still learning to celebrate and understand her art.
About the speaker
Tony Gum
Cape Town/South Africa
Tony Gum, named by Vogue as the "coolest girl in Cape Town", is an artist in learning.
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