Dr. Henk Oosterling

Associate professor Erasmus University RotterdamDirector Rotterdam Skillcity

MAKING SPACE?What does that mean ‘making space’?

-Physical: Cleaning up your room

-Mental: Freeing your mind

What does it mean ‘space’ nowadays?

-Cartesian space-time

-physical/virtual space: social

Isn’t art occupying space?

No, science is occupying space

Galactic space

Subatomic space

Art is making space by reflection

Velasquez: Las Meninas

Artisan Sovereign

subject?

artist

Becoming a self-reflective modern artist?

Double perspective1938 Espana Dali

whole part

Thinking different means seeing different

Towards a new discourse

Contemporary art practises

Contemporary society as a whole?

Media society Network society Information society Risk society

Visual culture

video ergo sum

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." (Einstein)

Modern discourse: 1872-1963

Enlightened politics Democracy Emancipation of the citizen Private-public Individual Autonomy Literacy Critical Avant garde art

Pyramid (top down/bottom up)

capital power

Individual (Maslov)

Antiquity: vertical Renaissance: horizontal

Utopian thinkingReligious thinking

Is the a difference between religious and utopian thinking?

What lies behind the horizon?

Medial unfolding

Ecological thinking: cyclical feedback

Transversal topologyneither horizontal nor vertical

Networks

Modern Contemporary

The missing link

Not thisExternal gaze

But thisImmanent feedback

A moebial torsion The linear is circular

The inside is out and the outside is in(John Lennon)

INTERVIDUAL: A NODE IN A NETWORKprimacy of relations

Intervidual

Integrated networks: nodal interviduality and social

sustainability

Beyond the pyramid to the network: not rigid but smooth and scaled spaces

Urban mesopolitical interventions: weaving urban textures

Social sustainability: networks as both safety nets and trampolines

2. Art

Turning of discourses: art

individual

cult of the genius interiority Expressive Private Monodisciplinary Monomediality Object Museal

Intervidual

Cooperation Relation Performative Public Interdisciplinary Intermediality Process Public space

Discourse beyond oppositions: reflaction

theory praktice

narrative

performative

CYCLICAl REFLACTION

words deeds

homo faberhomo sapiens

homo laboranshomo informans

Not top down

Not bottom up

Work of art as space-time: process

MAKING SPACE?What does that mean ‘making space’?

-Physical: Cleaning up your room

-Mental: Freeing your mind

What does it mean ‘space’ nowadays?

-Cartesian space-time

-physical/virtual space: social

What does it mean for artists nowadays ‘making space’? Re-publication of art practices

-Art in public space

-Art of public space

-Art as public space

-Public space as art

Opera (Wagner) Wiener Werkstätte (o.a. Klimt) Arts & Crafts (Morris) Synaesthesie (Baudelaire) Gemeenschapskunst (Berlage) Bertold Brecht Oscar Wilde Kurt Schwitters Bauhaus Joseph Beuijs Andy Warhol Karlheinz Stockhaussen Peter Greenaway

Total work of artGesamtkunstwerk

3. Philosophy

Artistic interests

Being (esse) in between (inter)

ScaledScaled• In betweenIn between• RelationsRelations• NetworksNetworks

Dasein is designLife is art

INTERMEDIALITY

From monodisciplinarity via multidisciplinarity to interdisciplonarity

From multimedia to intermediality

INTERCULTURALITY

Van multicultureel relativis to interculturele interest

INTER-EST Dasein is design

Interactivity interface

Sofie 2014