Jeppe Hein´s ‘Modified Social Benches’ are placed on the dyke in De Haan. The bench designs borrow their basic form from normal park or garden benches seen everywhere, but are altered in various degrees to make the act of sitting on them a conscious physical endeavour. Out of investigating architecture, communication, and social behaviour in the urban space, the series was born under the common title ‘Modified Social Benches’.
With their modification, the spaces they inhabit become active rather than places of rest and solitude; they foster exchange between the users and the passers-by, thus lending the work a social quality. Due to their alteration, the benches end up somewhere between a dysfunctional object and a functional piece of furniture and thus point out the contradiction between artwork and functional object.
All images © Jeppe Hein | Via: Empty Kingdom
May 08, 2012 · 16:47
"Ziel der Aktion ist das Sitzen zu einer bewussten, physikalischen Erfahrung zu machen. " -> sieht auf jeden Fall seeeehr unbequem aus... ;-)
Zum Glück steht - im Hintergrund zu erkennen - noch eine normale Bank.
May 08, 2012 · 19:50
Bänke!
May 09, 2012 · 21:38
wir hatten soviel Spaß auf den Bänken! Kann ich unsere Fotos, die wir mit den Bänken gemacht haben, irgendwo posten?
May 23, 2012 · 09:03
Beaufort 04 « Ansichtsexemplar
Mar 03, 2013 · 11:50
After I initially commented I appear to have clicked on the -Notify me
when new comments are added- checkbox and from now on each time
a comment is added I recieve 4 emails with the exact same comment.
Perhaps there is a means you can remove me from that service?
Kudos!