Walking to Utopia and Thinking About Art Along the Way
(2021)
author(s): Ulvi Haagensen
published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
Walking through the old town of Tallinn, where everything is quiet because shops, cafés and restaurants are closed, some permanently because of a lack of tourists due to the pandemic and others temporarily because of the current lockdown, I experience the city in a new way. The city is different and no longer am I drawn in by the enticement of what I could or should buy. I no longer peer in the café window to see if there is an available table, in the expectation of a pastry and a coffee. Art galleries and museums are also closed. I’m closed out but this strange situation means there is time to stop, notice and think, space to walk and an opportunity to see things differently. There is freedom to imagine new worlds, other possibilities, and new ways of seeing and being. I look at shop windows, peer into art galleries, think about my own window exhibition in the context of these other windows, and in the process take in a full experience of visual art in the form of installations, performance art and even participation art. At the same time my thoughts take me to completely other utopian worlds where things are quite different. The walk, though initially purposeful, becomes something more than a walk. It starts to meander and – combined with what I see, remember and imagine – it becomes a meandering text with images and ideas that click in and out of focus.
Ninguém entra duas vezes no mesmo rio.
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): rodrigo queirós
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“Misfortune is the echo of hope”
By looking attentively we can renew our world constantly, everything that surrounds, even the most banal is a portrait of hope. In this Exposition I choose to focus on what is directly around me, in a nearly autobiographical form, at a same time forming a kind of portrait of a city and a memory of a disappearance. Paradoxically, the disasters of what is no longer with us, that has been lost, is also what we should maintain in "echo" as an act of tenderness. In an exercise of simplicity that arises from the question "what is the shipwrecked person left with?" of Hans Blumemberg.
Housing Ecologies of Scale
(last edited: 2022)
author(s): Micaela del Puerto
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This site exhibits the Master Dissertation of Micaela del Puerto Fernandez at KU Leuven University. The research invokes scale to learn from different events in our homes that are not comparable until we use the scale to put them at the same level and embody nature in a different way. The creation of an arch-scope as a new space of condensation of different scales and a starting point for thinking about how we design our houses. If we start to conceive living spaces through an arch-scope maybe we can design better habitats, which are able to keep an eye on all the multiple events that are important for a positive impact of a body being in a space.