Series | Quaderni di Venezia Arti
Volume 6 | Edited book | Space Oddity: Exercises in Art and Philosophy
Space Oddity: Exercises in Art and Philosophy
open access-
edited by
- Giulia Gelmi - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
- Anastasia Kozachenko-Stravinsky - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
- Andrea Nalesso - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
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 Altar • Non-human • Architecture exhibition • Drawing • Opacity • Cultural space • Kustar • Architecture • Ancient Stoicism • Ephemeral architecture • Dwelling • Artist • John of the Cross • Krzysztof Wodiczko • Material culture • Isa Genzken • Dance • Presence • Transparency • Folklore • Scrapbook • Blind man’s stick • Displaying • Conflagration • History of art • Knapping • Late Middle Ages • Hauntology • Igor Stravinsky • Room • Archival turn • Field • Bird’s-eye View • Architecture curation • Scrapbooking • Cultural decolonialism • Nefs • Louis Marin • Visual semiotics • Landscape • Consumption • Skill • Body • Audience • Technology • Architecture representations • Visual culture • Analogue photography • Enunciation • Arts and crafts • Conspicuous • Heidegger • Fyodor Stravinsky • Photography • Biennial Art • Philosophy • Modernity • Orbit • Visibility • Museum • Venice Biennale • Mies van der Rohe • Hypercomfort • Absence • Sound and audiovisual archives • Russian style • Stravinsky’s family • Martha Rosler • Eline Mugaas • Archival spaces • Home • Place • Transición • Ritual • Topology • Malafouris • Elise Storsveen • Void • Art history • Historiography • Communal apartments • National image • Architectural design • Power • Public space • Performance installation • Cultural discourse • Coloniality • Incorporeals • Kommunalka • Visual studies • Musical repatriation • Art • Space • Hudinilson Jr • Ship models • Chile • Early Modern Age • Inflatables • Organism • Visual identity • The Tupikov House • Ethnomusicology • National Pavilion • Ontology • Image Theory • Exhibition theory • Crucifixion • Ephemera • Digital archives • Curatorial theory
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-675-6 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-675-6 | Published Dec. 21, 2022 | Language en
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