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Amateur Workshop #2: Antisocial Volcano

Jerszy Seymour's latest workshop at the Vitra Design Museum offers an opportunity to dabble with primary and easily available materials.

On January 13th, during Basel's Museum Night, Canadian designer Jerszy Seymour lead his "Amateur Workshop #2: (Anti-)social Volcano" at the Vitra Design Museum. As part of a series of projects considering the potential of the amateur (which for Seymour means lover, appassionato and non-professional as a way of being), this workshop used polycapralactone wax both as a construction material and as a metaphor for the creative energy in everyone. The "Amateur Workshop #2: (Anti-)social Volcano", functioned both as a paradox of the prehistoric and contemporary, as an investigation into the idea of progress. Visitors could choose to use primordial, easily available materials, such as wood sticks, bones, as well as chalk spray and wax, which stood as signifiers of primitive artificiality today.

Using the volcano as a metaphor for the human psyche, with the chance for release of the subconscious libidinal and instinctual forces of the Id over the controlling forces of the Ego and Super Ego, Jerszy Seymour aims to consider our relationship to the built world, the natural world, to other people and ourselves by the creation of life situations.
Hunter, Farmer, Thinker: poured from the source and the same as the source, the (Anti-)Social Volcano is everybody and it invites everybody to participate.

Jerszy Seymour, <em>Amateur Workshop #2: Antisocial Volcano</em>, © Vitra Design Museum 2012. Photo by Barbara Kern — Jerszy Seymour, *Amateur Workshop #2: Antisocial Volcano*, © Vitra Design Museum 2012. Photo by Barbara Kern

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Amateur Workshop #2: Antisocial Volcano

Jerszy Seymour's latest workshop at the Vitra Design Museum offers an opportunity to dabble with primary and easily available materials.

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