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Space Oddity: Exercises in Art and Philosophy

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Abstract

The volume includes papers presented at the 4th Postgraduate International Conference of the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Venice, 5-7 October 2022). Our understanding of reality is filtered through myriad media, and we have the ability – and power – to gather, ignore, tweak, and explore the information needed to define what we mean by ‘reality’. The concept of ‘space’ – in its broadest sense – plays an essential role in an individual’s explanation of reality, and we must deal with a plurality of models and concepts of it. As elaborated in the text Space and Time in Art, the Russian theologian, philosopher, and art theorist Pavel Florensky states: “all culture can be interpreted as the activity of organising space”. Starting from this culturological reading, Florensky identifies three spatial “dimensions” and three corresponding genres of activity: (1) The space of our strong relations and the activity of ‘Technique’; (2) The mental space and its organisation and the activities of ‘Science’ or ‘Philosophy’; (3) The space between the previous two, and the activity of ‘Art’. Ultimately, all have the same aim: to change reality to reconstruct space. According to leading scholars and critics, the late 1980s saw a “spatial turn” take place in literary, social, and cultural studies. In 1991 Fredric Jameson theorised a shift from the paradigm of time to the paradigm of space, from modernism to postmodernism. The pandemic era has refocused investigation on the present paradigm, where Florensky’s spaces have been concentrated through cyberspace almost overnight. Through the notion of the ‘semiosphere’ – as elaborated by Juri Lotman 100 years ago – we collectively pondered the question: “should we reconsider the concept of space as a cultural category altogether?”.

Keywords Conflagration • Ancient Stoicism • Visibility • Historiography • Blind man’s stick • Architecture curation • Musical repatriation • Crucifixion • Archival turn • Altar • Hudinilson Jr • Museum • Sound and audiovisual archives • Architecture • Place • Scrapbooking • Photography • Material culture • Folklore • Void • Art • Malafouris • Igor Stravinsky • Inflatables • Orbit • Chile • Incorporeals • Philosophy • Cultural discourse • Home • Drawing • Curatorial theory • Visual studies • Eline Mugaas • Communal apartments • Isa Genzken • Scrapbook • Visual identity • Analogue photography • National image • Ephemera • Early Modern Age • Hypercomfort • Kommunalka • Knapping • Louis Marin • Martha Rosler • Art history • Biennial Art • Late Middle Ages • Audience • Kustar • Visual culture • Russian style • Opacity • Mies van der Rohe • Ritual • History of art • Enunciation • The Tupikov House • John of the Cross • Organism • Conspicuous • Cultural decolonialism • Ship models • Exhibition theory • Landscape • Ephemeral architecture • Stravinsky’s family • Consumption • Topology • Body • Transparency • Cultural space • Ethnomusicology • Archival spaces • Bird’s-eye View • Dance • Fyodor Stravinsky • Artist • Venice Biennale • Architectural design • Absence • Architecture exhibition • National Pavilion • Architecture representations • Skill • Hauntology • Non-human • Digital archives • Performance installation • Technology • Image Theory • Space • Coloniality • Transición • Dwelling • Field • Elise Storsveen • Arts and crafts • Public space • Power • Krzysztof Wodiczko • Presence • Nefs • Visual semiotics • Heidegger • Ontology • Modernity • Displaying • Room

Thema codes ABA • QDT • 1DST-IT-NVE

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-675-6 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-675-6 | Pubblicato 21 Dicembre 2022 | Lingua en

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