SARI SUKI 2050

With an Opening Reception this Thursday, August 20th 2015, 5-10PM, VSOON’S design futures exhibition, SARI SUKI 2050, is an interactive installation that explores tropical futures through a neighborhood convenience store.

SARI SUKI 2050 is the New York-based design research studio’s first solo show in the Philippines. During their artist residency at 856 G Gallery, VSOON manifested a site-specific art installation that took the traditional Filipino Sari Sari store 35 years into the future. The studio speculated by asking questions: Who would the Sari Sari serve? How would it serve them? What would it look like? What products and services would be offered? What type of interactions would occur in this space?

Interested in Sari Sari stores because of their cultural and community significance, the installation’s intent is to celebrate these neighborhood stores and the local knowledge of the Pinoy that they foster, enable, and house. Through referencing a familiar structure and producing objects that consider the growing global trends of mass urban migration, increased privatization, changing climate and resource scarcity, SARI SUKI 2050 proposes a range of possible futures.

In the SARI SUKI 2050 exhibition, speculations are represented in a variety of future objects that run the gamut from Solar Algae Panels to Canned Air alongside cooperative concepts of co-Sari ownership, shared community utilities and time banking.

By fully reconstructing a Sari Sari store in 856 G Gallery, SARI SUKI 2050 renders tangential futures through new objects and spaces.

About VSOON

VSOON is a New York design research studio concerned about the future. VSOON’S Chris John Fussner, Noah Emrich and Sophia Callahan are graduates from Parsons School of Design in New York. Their previous project Datacafe.biz was shown during NYCxDesign week last May in Brooklyn, NY. Their work often includes ethnographic research, graphic and web design, as well as conceptual practices across themes of speculative futures and global networks.

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About 856 G Gallery

More than just a modern exhibition space, the gallery strives to explore and exhibit different artist media by giving them a platform to share, display and expose. By participating in cross-cultural exchanges, international artists are hosted while local artists are sent abroad for immersions and open calls. 856 G Gallery provides public programming that enhances and nurtures the community’s appreciation for the arts. By encouraging community dialogue, self expression, education and appreciation in arts for all generations are fosters.

856 G Gallery is located at 856 A.S. Fortuna St. Banilad, Mandaue City, 6014 Cebu City, Philippines.
www.856ggallery.org. Press Contact: Pia Marie Mercado | info@856ggallery.com
+63 917 626 0203

Source: 856 G Gallery.org