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MoMA announces Designer's Choice: Norman Teague-Jam Sessions, the inaugural exhibition in a new series |
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Japan Victor Corporation (JVC), Japan (est. 1927). Boombox portable audio system (model M-90). c.1981. Plastic, aluminum, steel and electronic components, 13 3/4 x 26 1/4 x 6 3/4″ (34.9 x 66.7 x 17.1 cm). Committee on Architecture and Design Funds.
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NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces Designers Choice: Norman TeagueJam Sessions, an exhibition on view in the Museum's street-level galleries from October 10, 2024, through May 11, 2025, that will juxtapose historic design icons from MoMAs collection with Teagues unique reinterpretations of many of those objects. For Norman TeagueJam Sessions, the Chicago-based designer Norman Teague (b. 1968) draws inspiration from the historically underrepresented voices of women, people of color, and non-Westerners, remaking storied design objects anew by way of generative AI. The exhibition features over 45 design objects, including furniture, glassware, ceramics, and electronics, by a range of acclaimed designers, including Charles and Ray Eames, Mies van der Rohe, Eero Saarinen, and Gerrit Rietveld. These will be featured in the exhibition alongside 19 original commissions by Teague reimagining these design icons, including 15 posters and four full-scale 3D prototypes. Building upon MoMAs longstanding Artists Choice exhibition series, this will be the inaugural installment of the Museum's Designers Choice series, in which a contemporary designer organizes an installation drawn from the Museums collection. Designer's Choice: Norman TeagueJam Sessions is organized by Norman Teague with Paul Galloway, Collection Specialist, Department of Architecture and Design, with co curation by Michele Y. Washington, Norman Teague Design Studios, design AI assistance by Daniel Overbey, and poster design by Narineh Seferian.
Your world is the history that you read about, and if youre wrapping your head around the things that say that you dont belong here, then we have to create other books, or we have to create another world, says Norman Teague.
For Teague, this exhibition is both a reminder of the creative power of diverse perspectives and an invitation to contemplate the past and future as realms of boundless possibility. As in a musical jam session, as the exhibitions namesake suggests, Teagues design approach is grounded in collaboration, respect, and improvisation, and recalls the sense of potential that sparks every act of imagination: the what if. The exhibition also engages with the instrumental role that MoMA has played in shaping the history of modern design, incorporating the voices of women, people of color, and those outside Europe and the United States to represent a more complete history of design.
Teagues exploratory process, highlighted in Designers Choice: Norman TeagueJam Sessions, incorporates tools like generative artificial intelligence to offer new visions of iconic works: Mies van der Rohes iconic Barcelona Chair, for example, reimagined by Teague with African motifs, or Harry Bertoias Metal Side Chair (familiar to visitors to MoMAs Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden), morphing into a structure that is simultaneously familiar and unknown. The exhibitions emphasis on collaborative design is further emphasized in two videos on display: in The Fiberglass Chairs, viewers will explore the multitude of craft skills required to manufacture an Eames chair, and Back Alley Jazz documents a community project, founded by Teague and Fo Wilson, in which music and art come together in Chicagos South Side.
Paul Galloway adds, Normans reinterpretation of design history via MoMAs collection asks viewers to question the received wisdom of what was deemed good design, and offers an invitation to join him in his quest to imagine a different, richer story.
Norman Teague is an artist, designer, and educator based in Chicago. He is also the founder and principal of Norman Teague Design Studio. Through his practice, he explores the systematic complexity of urbanism and the culture of communities of color. His studio focuses on customized furniture that delivers a personal touch rooted in distinct aesthetic detail based on a broad range of materials, from locally sourced recycled wood to local fabricators that help invest in his community.
Teague has had group and solo exhibitions in Venice, Italy, New York City, Pittsburgh, and Chicago, among others. In 2023 Teague participated in the Everlasting Pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale. He has also conducted numerous workshops, including at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine; Penland School of Crafts, Mitchell County, North Carolina; and QDance Center, Lagos, Nigeria. Notably, Teague is part of the Obama Presidential Center artists/designer team, collaborating with other local talents to shape a significant cultural institution.
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