
Seeking Comfort While Playing Video Games
- Publisher
- GHOST Editions
- Year
- 2014
- Specifications
- 150 × 210 mm
24 pages
Xerox
Black and white
Edition of 100 copies
Design: GHOST
"In 2012 I found a poster of Bruno Munari's Ricerca della comodità in una poltrona scomoda [Seeking comfort in an uncomfortable chair]. In fourteen frames a man tries several positions to sit in a chair while reading his newspaper; since then it hangs on a wall in the living room. In its original version it was an article in which Munari criticised the inflation of new chairs invented by designers when there was still so much work to do to accomplish a single one. A few months later my son got a video game console as a gift, and choreographic correspondences started to appear between Munari's poster and the strange positions of that child absorbed in his games: head down, legs up, somersaults, handstands. A kind of gymnastic looking for invisible braces. Each position required a new chair to receive the postures of a body living extraordinary adventures — a chair probably impossible to accomplish." (David-Alexandre Guéniot)