Gentle Friction - through temporary territories of culture
(2024)
author(s): Alicia Rottke Fitzpatrick
published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
Friction between the other is not only inevitable but a necessary part of heterogeneous life. However, this friction can occur on a spectrum, from aggressive, violent manifestations to more gentle, subtle forms. This research explores the latter form of friction within the context of cultural events.
There is a growing rhetoric that cultural events are solely for elitist circles, and if this discourse continues to permeate society, the transformative power of these events will be in jeopardy.
To preserve and reinforce the transformative power of these spaces, this research asks: How do cultural events facilitate moments of gentle friction as a means to foster an understanding of 'the other'?
This research began as an introspective exploration into the author's practice. By unpacking the conditions of conviviality, autonomy, and temporality that ensure the friction remains gentle, the research explores how these conditions can be spatially translated to strengthen the experience in these spaces. Concluding with a set of design tools that can be used to ensure the vitality of cultural events, encouraging diverse participation as a means to protect this necessary form of friction between the other.
HALL09 - Vilnius
(last edited: 2022)
author(s): Breg Horemans, Siebren Nachtergaele, Gert-Jan Stam
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
This page is part of TAAT's Live Archive. It's an attempt to structure the archival material of the project HALL33. We focus on scripting a specific workshop-performance that took place Match 10-11th in Vilnius, Lithuania. For this workshop-performance embedded researcher Siebren Nachtergaele (UGent/HOGent) was part of the team as an inside/outside eye in co-assembling of this script/archive page. This page functions as a residu of an embodied and reflective proces, visually meandering between action and extraction. TAAT is founded in 2012 by Gert-Jan Stam and Breg Horemans.
Dialogical Structures
(last edited: 2021)
author(s): Torben Körschkes, Ina Römling
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As a nomadic communication practice, the Dialogical Structures explore alternative forms of linguistic-spatial negotiations by means of dialogically designed objects and structures. In the following, we formulate a relationship between artistic practice and utopian thinking on the basis of three theses, starting from the Dialogical Structures. We try to make clear to what extent an expanded concept of space and speculative artistic research, methodically brought together, form practices of imagination.
Atelier III : le mobilier-sculpture
(last edited: 2018)
author(s): Boily Béatrice
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Le présent projet est une exploration spatiale qui s'est développée à partir des paramètres suivants: le corps, l'espace architectural et l'objet. Au sein de ce système, il s'agissait d'explorer le potentiel performatif et figural de cette nouvelle mise en situation.
