VCUarts Qatar-based international architects and interior designers Simone Carena and Marco Bruno explain the creative power of fresh starts and misunderstandings, the meaning of dub design and why arts research is like riding a motorcycle.
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About Simone Carena & Marco Bruno
MOTOElastico co-founders and VCUarts Qatar faculty members Simone Carena and Marco Bruno chat about their Dub-inspired design process.
MOTOElastico is an orbiting Space Lab founded in Seoul by Simone Carena and Marco Bruno and currently working on architecture, interiors, exhibition and art projects. Born and educated in Italy, specialized in California, rooted in South Korea since 2001, and now teaching and practicing in Doha,
MOTOElastico in all its projects is using irony to critically challenge and playfully celebrate local customs and behaviors. In more than twenty years of practice outside of its Italian homeland, MOTOElastico developed a wide range of space projects.
The goal was often to explore local cultures through the unexpected combination of original ingredients with a design process similar to the one used by Dub DJs: enhancing rhythms and underlying features of existing elements, with the purpose of generating new yet familiar design tunes.
MOTOElastico works have received several design awards and been included in prestigious international venues and events: Anyang Public Art Project (South Korea), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul (South Korea), Italian Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale (Italy), Korean Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale (Italy/South Korea, Golden Lion), Marrakech Art Biennale (Morocco), Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (South Korea), Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism of Shenzen (China), Gwangju Design Biennale (South Korea) the Doha Design Biennial (Qatar) and London Design Biennial (UK).
For more information, visit www.motoelastico.com
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VCUarts Uncharted is recorded in the Community Media Center in the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU. Music by Felipe Letão.
For more information, visit arts.vcu.edu/uncharted.
