The Royal Academy of Art The Hague: Reset

The Royal Academy of Art The Hague presents Reset a unique place for experimental and interdisciplinary collaborations set at the Salone del Mobile 2016 in Milan. In the intimate environment of a private apartment, participants and visitors are invited to reflect upon several 21st century challenges.

Reset metaphorically explores the necessity of a complete reset in addressing current societal urgencies, such as the sustainability of our economic system, effects of technological innovations, migration, energy dependence, the durability of political systems and the impact of design and art on our daily life. The show aims at a Reset of disciplinary borders through collaborative processes boldly expressed in our motto: DESIGN=COLLABORATION.

Under the professional guidance of a curatorial team comprising lecturers of the Royal Academy of Art The Hague, a collective of students and alumni delved into the notion of Reset. They approached this dynamic theme and format each from their own artistic practice, all the while combining and borrowing strategies from their respective disciplines in order to create a peculiar sense of uniqueness that is in dialogue with the private setting of the apartment.

Reset is an immersive show that is in a constant state of transition from day to day. Participants and performers are experimenting in front of the visitors, reacting to the given space with in situ elements, building and dismantling, turning perspectives, testing new possibilities and expanding notions of the unfinished and the undefined. Visiting the apartment is both a physical and poetical experience: one all guests will remember.

Participants:
Fabian Bredt, Koos Breen, Lynne Brouwer, Noortje de Brouwer, Lorena van Bunningen, Rob van der Burg, Ciro Duclos, Quinsy Gario, Amir Houieh, Esther Hovers, Gábor Kerekes, Anne Kranenborg, Elide Mozzorecchi, Marijn Ottenhof, Yaprak Sayar, Vera van der Seyp, Nienke Sikkema, Jeannette Slütter, Natasha Taylor, Majda Vidakovic.