DxA 2024 – Participation Details
The DXA Show 2024
blurring boundaries
A Design and Art Show with an ‘X’ Factor!
Join the Eccentric Conversations Design Challenge!
Inviting designers of all disciplines, who wish to further their brand-building exercise and promote their thinking capabilities to a focused audience via an exhibition that uses black humour to blur the boundaries between art and design.
Theme: The Dining Room
If you are a designer, who has a dynamic sense of design and a penchant for the out-of-box to convey your design thought, fill the form below.
Unleash your creativity by transforming ordinary dining room objects into whimsical, conversational masterpieces!
We invite designers to reimagine dining chairs, tables, cutlery, drapery, tablecloths, crockery, consoles, lights, apparel, and more… into unique, quirky works of art. Imagine chairs engaging in playful banter, tables telling tales, or wall clocks breaking the fourth dimension. Let your imagination run wild!
Embrace the unexpected as you craft works of art that spark conversation and redefine the boundaries of design. From surreal settings to avant-garde installations, we encourage you to push the limits of what’s possible.
This challenge celebrates the fusion of non-functionality and eccentricity. Don’t miss this opportunity to showcase your talent, challenge norms, and let your designs speak volumes in the language of the extraordinary!
Only 10 designers will be finally shortlisted as Exhibitors.
PLEASE NOTE: This is an exhibition opportunity and NOT a competition or award-wining particicpation.
Each participant will create a product/ work of art related to the dining room – the twist being that it should be a non-functional, conversational, “non-usable collectable”!
Elaborating on “non-usable collectable”:
Primarily a “product” which would have artistic appeal – may be in form of a sculpture, wall hanging, a floor graphic…
Each participating designer could attract a different Target Group
- Category: Furniture – It could be chair with three legs up and 1 down
- Category: Ceramics – A teapot with a knot at the end of the spout
- Category: Cutlery – A spoon with a flexible neck
- Category: Fashion – A dress most inappropriate for dining
- Category: Lighting – A table lamp that creates a shadow on the table
The product/ work of art thatyou create can be in any of the forms listed below:
| A | Projections via Hologram/ AV/VR | Virtual |
| B | Fullscale / Prototype | Not projecting beyond 9″ from the wall |
| C | 3D Rendering/ Wall Hanging | A0 size – 841 x 1189 mm | 33.1 x 46.8 in |
| A1 size – 594 x 841 mm | 23.4 x 33.1 in | ||
| A2 size – 420 x 594 mm | 16.5 x 23.4 in |
- Presentation Opportunity to a closed-door select audience of 60-70 people followed by Networking over Cocktails & Dinner @ a star venue.
- Networking with 30-40 select invitees at the Inaugural of the Exhibition @ Gallery Pradarshak.
- 15 Days of Exhibition @ Gallery Pradarshak
- Opportunity to host ‘Open Canvas’ (a closed-group networking session) @ Gallery Pradarshak
- Panel Discussion/ Gathering @ a Partner venue. (possibly)
In short, the exhibitors will have the opportunity to network with select audiences in the overall duration of 16-days, whereby each exhibitor gets to:
1. Leverage the potential of cross-disciplinary design
2. Power one-to-one interactions with your TG
3. Garner exposure and expertise from like-minded designers
4. Build on closed-door personalised interactions for optimum business promotion.
5. Get published in national and international print/digital media in addition to India Art n Design(dot)com
18 to 31 January 2024
At India’s smallest gallery of Art & Design – Gallery Pradarshak, Khar West, Mumbai.
Last date to submit the application form is 17th Dec. 2023 by midnight.
The 10 final shortlisted participants will be notified on 19th Dec. 2023 via. e-mail.
Participation fees of Rs. 1,50,000/- +GST as applicable per participant is to be paid by 22nd Dec. 2023 via bank transfer. (Bank transfer details will be provided via selection e-mail.)
Shortlisted participants are required to submit min. 2 photographs of their ready project with a final concept note by 10th Jan. 2024 for further promotions.
Participants can install their projects at the exhibition venue (Gallery Pradarshak, Khar West, Mumbai) on 16th / 17th Jan 2024.
Closed-door presentations + talks by keynote speakers, along with cocktails & dinner + networking will be held at a star venue on 17th Jan. 2024. The 10 final participants will prepare presentations of their projects/ their USP/ design philosophy/journey/etc for the same. (More details regarding this will be shared post selection.)
The inaugural of the exhibition will be held at Gallery Pradarshak, Khar West on 18th Jan 20247
Participation is open to practicing designers from all disciplines.
Each designer will be individually responsible for there exhibits including, pricing, billing, packaging and despatch, and all statutory compliances.
DXA is an initiative of India Art n Design under the mentorship of Ar. Rajesh Patel, Founder & Principal of ARP Studio, Past Visiting Faculty of Academy of Architecture, Mumbai, Fellow of Indian Institue of Architects, Past President & Fellow of Institute of Indian Interior Designers.
For any further details, kindly reach out to Lalit Hira (at) +91 98204 61587
Meet the Jury
SEZA Architects, Mumbai
Senior Associate Professor & Head of Exhibitions, CEPT University, Ahmedabad
ARP Studio, Mumbai
Toy Designer, Storyteller & President of ADI, Mumbai Chapter
Art & Culture Critic, Author
Artist, Educationist & Art Writer
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