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ÅBÄKE

Country(activity based)：: United Kingdom
Genre：: Design and Art

Profile

(Kajsa Ståhl [Sweden] & Maki Suzuki [France/Japan])

Åbäke is a collective of four graphic designers based in London. Much of their work concentrates on the social aspect of design, the strength that collaboration can bring to a project and the context specificity of all projects. Events often involve (in no particular order) film, dancing, reading, eating & cooking and teaching. In all Åbäke reckon they have twelve aliases. To name a few: Kitsuné, Social Pasta, Trattoria & Dent De Leone. The last one being a publishing hut (house).

(Patrick Lacey is from the UK, Kajsa Ståhl from Sweden, Benjamin Reichen and Maki Suzuki from France who decided to work together in the summer of 2000.)

www.kitsune.fr
www.dentdeleone.co.nz

About works / performance

- At the muse da Cidade, Lisbon, Portugal; Åbäke were impressed by the model of Lisbon but noticed the museum itself was absent. They commisioned a local architect to make a model of the museum, which has been geographically placed in relation to the city model -- in the garden behind the building-- creating a "mise en abyme".
(Part of "Timeless" a group show at Experimenta in Lisbon, Portugal, September 2009)

- Dent De Leone, our newly started publishing hut.
Our own publishung hut (house) releasing books with close collaborators or simply people we admire.

- The Tourists, Stanley Picker Gallery Summer 2009 as "The Tourists" in Kingston Upon Thames at the Stanley Picker Gallery.

The wish to react to a given context, including people, time, money, our lack of skills and amateurism. Åbäke means "clumsy."