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