The Berlage

This public event and exhibition concludes the design master class, entitled "We wrote a master plan, on a piece of paper, but we lost it," led by Bristol-based duo John Wood and Paul Harrison. Throughout the two weeks students explored ideas of space, performance, composition, comedy, and movement, which manifest themselves in four films, four structures, and four manifestos.

John Wood and Paul Harrison make things that move and things that don't, things that are flat and things that are not, things that are mildly amusing and things that are definitely not. They make works that form a kind of reference manual for how to do, make, build, or draw things that you probably never want to do, make, build, or draw. They do it for you. Even though you don't need them to. This attempt to compile an encyclopedia of the everyday, started in 1993 after they met at art college. John Wood (b.1969, Hong Kong) and Paul Harrison (b.1966, Wolverhampton)