36. ąććumułątór
ąććumułątór is a series of stools made to allow the visitor a place for contemplation. Breaking with the rational idea of efficiency in historic works of DIY furniture, such as Gerrit Rietveld’s Crate Furniture and Enzo Mari’s Autoprogettazione, ąććumułątór accepts obsessive-compulsive behaviour – the act of repeatedly doing something to calm the mind – not only as a symptom of capitalism, but as a method to break through the reigning paradigm by using that energy to create another world. Built as an autonomous collage of both social and personal reflections from left over material and detritus, the work transforms the neurosis into a new form of intimacy with the world, where efficiency is replaced with pathos, and a kind of tranquility can be found.