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“I’m interested in ‘us,’ more than the objects, and the objects are a way to get to ‘us.’” — Amie Siegel

The Design in Dialogue series of Zoom conversations produced by Friedman Benda continues to be one of the most interesting – not to mention enduring – series launched during quarantine time.. Inaugurated on April 1, 2020 and now consisting of 70 episodes – all recorded remotely during quarantine – Design in Dialogue is a series of online interviews hosted alternately by curator and historian Glenn Adamson and designer Stephen Burks. Conversations are held on Zoom for one hour, beginning at 11AM EDT typically on Wednesdays and Fridays, and include a participatory Q&A. The conversation for today, Friday, October 30 was Malene Barnett interviewed by Stephen Burks.

In this conversation – episode #66 of Design in Dialogue – Glenn Adamson interviews artist Amie Siegel. In a unique conversation amongst the Design in Dialogue series, Adamson and Siegel discuss how Siegel is a fine artist whose practice examines design and our relationship with it, rather than a designer herself.

From Friedman Benda:

Amie Siegel brought a new vantage point to our series, as an artist who has deeply considered design as one aspect of her subject matter. Our conversation focused primarily on a series of works, among them: Quarry (2015), which tracks the passage of marble from its underground source in Vermont to real estate developments in Manhattan; The Architects (2014), a transversal cut through the professional landscape of that discipline; and Provenance (2013), which traces in reverse the global trade in modernist furniture from the Indian city of Chandigarh. In each case, Siegel brings an uncompromising view to systems that typically lie out of public view, clarifying the political and economic context in which design happens.