"We don't need to come up with some major conceptual title.
(One urged us to rediscover the "sensual pleasure" of washing up. Excuse me?) But Design Academy Eindhoven, the hot Dutch design school, staged a compelling exhibition of its graduates' conceptual projects — titled "?" (An apt title at a time when design is in flux).
Syms, who is twenty-nine, has described herself as a "conceptual entrepreneur," a title that conveys her facility for film, essay, graphic and Web design, and publishing, but which also captures the trickster energy that pulses through her work.
In addition to recommending pieces for inclusion in the show, LeFalle-Collins developed its conceptual framework and title.
For those unfamiliar, Shabazz Palaces makes brainy, afrofuturist-inspired "recorded happenings" that have sentences-long song titles and heady conceptual spins, like if Sun Ra had spat hard bars about transcendentalism as a tiny baby infant thing.
And this title provides the conceptual framework of its new display here: serving both palace and mosque, Islamic art took secular as well as religious forms.
The second, Nothing But Wind (1988), was performed by flutist Hariprasad Chaurasia and a 50-piece orchestra and takes the conceptual approach suggested in the title — that music is a natural phenomenon akin to various forms of air currents (e.g., the wind, breeze, tempest etc).
Students were asked to provide first drafts on the conceptual planning of the exhibit (exhibit titles, core ideas, storyline, signage content, choice of objects and concepts, and advertising strategies) both during the meetings and via email.
Of course, the success of that novel may have had less to do with the title than with the conceptual hook (murder, sex, conspiracy, and Jesus) or Dan Brown's bottomless bag of chapter-punctuating twists.
Nauman's punning title circles back to the conceptual play with words and sight gags that began with Duchamp and Magritte.
