As my "buddy" in the second semester of the program, we mostly had conversations of conducting a project involving the public. How can encounters be initiated and what comes with the balance of the maker's intention, care for the participants and authentic choices for the project.
Tino Sehgal's artistic practice takes the form of "constructed situations":
live encounters between visitors and those enacting the work.
Their ephemeral beauty rests in the fleeting specificity of the encounter, where players often engage the visitors with their active participation in constructing the piece.
Sehgal’s abandoning of material production in favor of lived experience is nevertheless achieved with a sensitivity to classical considerations of form, composition and space,
" ...That we understand space as the product of interrelations; as constituted through interactions...
we understand space as the sphere of the possibility of the existence of multiplicity in the sense of contemporaneous plurality..."
This perspective underscores her exploration of space as something alive, continuously shaped by the connections and exchanges between people.
"Our experience will always be elsewhere for someone.
We are subjects worthy of examination in hope that others find clarity....
The individual becomes the society in which they're apart, it's this realization that absolute individuality is inseperable form all that we inherit and all that will be our legacy.
The world around us is entwined with our own individuality and thus entwined within a collective identity."
---Yiyi: A Retrospective, a commentary from The House of Tabula
In recent years, designer/costume designer Joost van Wijmen has collected scars from various people and the intimate stories behind them. Van Wijmen talks to the bearer of the scar, draws the scars and then has them re-embordered on silk.
