2. The Path to Love is Through Collage
Starting from an excerpt of Examined Life (documentary film by Astra Taylor, 2008) featuring Slavoj Žižek (original title: The Path to Love is Through Trash), the video overlays images of garbage onto the philosopher’s face and alters his voice. Trash becomes both mask and context, creating a circular relationship between critical discourse and material waste. The author’s identity dissolves into a landscape of residues, while the manipulated sound destabilises the authority of language.
Morena Di Molfetta (IT, born 2000) is a Berlin-based product designer who works across product, exhibition and social design practices. Her approach is rooted in research and observation: she considers design a methodology to understand reality and transform complexity into meaningful experiences. Her work often explores the relationship between light, behavior and cognitive processes, as well as the social and ecological dimensions of objects. Through her practice, she investigates how objects can become tools for awareness, interaction and collective transformation.In recent years, Morena Di Molfetta has collaborated with Jerszy Seymour Design Workshop among others.
Jerszy Seymour (CA & UK) is an artist, designer and director and cofounder of the Dirty Art Department, a radical masters program in art and design at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam running since 2011.
He uses the transformative potentials of art, design and activism in order to create 'situations for a possible planet to come' in the quest for the creation of a more equitable, just and joyous world.
His work has been presented in many museums and institutions and is held in many permanent collections including the Centre Georges Pompidou, the MAK Vienna, Kunsthaus Glarus, the Vitra Design Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, Marta Herford, Mudam Luxembourg, M&KG Hamburg, Fondation Lafayette and the Fonds National d’ Art Contemporain France. He is represented by Galerie Kreo in Paris, and has taught and given lectures and workshops at many schools including the Royal College of Art, UdK , Domus Academy, La Sapienza, Eindhoven Academy, Berlin Program for Artists, Hfg Karlsruhe and Saarbrucken, Cranbrook Academy, Ecal Lausanne and the HEAD in Geneva.