Everyone interested in "Spatial Aesthetics and Artificial Environments"
is invited to become a member of this SIG.
If you have any questions,
please contact:
Dr. Gerriet K. Sharma
(gerriet@spaes.org)
Endorsed by the Executive Board of The Society for Artistic Research
After all, […] artist’s work is originally engaged in the question of the sensibility of the other.
(Stiegler, B., (2014), Symbolic Misery, Volume 1, The Hyper-Industrial Epoch, p.1.)
INTEREST
We are interested in these contexts within Artistic Research practices and want to provide a framework for contextualisation and reflection on these practices.
DESCRIBING THE STATUS QUO
Today, we are witnessing an unprecedented awareness of space, be it in philosophy, art, geography, and other such as academic discourses.
However, after ages of discussion about time and its descriptions, what is behind all this?
Why space, and why today?
Since organising, redistributing, promoting, annexing, and defending territories are basic exercises of political as well as economical and military decisions, to enthrone space as the new all-round theory means no less than to refer to the most traditional power dynamics we can imagine.
This may be no surprise in given the strong effects of de-territorialisation as one main feature of the world’s status quo.
How do we as Artistic Researchers deal with this status quo?
Studying - emergences
Through cultural-historical shifts of 'spatiality' throughout the history of knowledge, the concept of space is subject to fundamental change, which both reflects the respective framework conditions in itself and leads the philosophical undertaking of an empirically-free categorisation ad absurdum:
At the beginning of philosophising stands the metaphysical question of the beginning or the “ground” of all things (Greek: arche), to which space as a conception of origin provides an answer;
at the end we find the insight into the ('an-archic') structure of space that cannot be justified by thought alone and an insight into its emergence from political, economic, historical and above all social contexts.