Misha Kahn (US)
Mold or Bust
June 27th – July 3rd 2021
The Workshop
Molds exist in our minds as exact, stark creatures of industrialization, but really, a mold is anything that creates a negative void. Our bodies are molds, the earth is a mold, and even space is a mold. In this workshop we'll use ad hoc and foraged materials in order to create a large variety of very unconventional molds that shall serve for our making of chairs, tables, luminaires, and other commodities for a future living scenario. Anything would be fair game to cast and anything would be fair game to cast into. During the process, the boundry between a mold and the molded is hopefully turned into a lovely blur.
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Misha Kahn United States
Misha Kahn was born in Duluth, Minnesota in 1989 and graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 2011 with a BFA in Furniture Design. A commissioned installation is currently on view in speechless: different by design at Dallas Museum of Art, an exhibition of multisensory, interactive, and immersive experiences that will then travel to High Museum of Art. Kahn’s work has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collection of numerous museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, and The Corning Museum of Glass. According to design technologist John Maeda, “Misha creates work for a parallel wonderland, where traditional perception of material and structure is pushed to the edges of the room to make space for one big party.”
www.mishakahn.com
