|
|
 |
|
|
|
'As we know, there are known knowns. There
are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns.
That is to say we know there are some things we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns, The ones we don't know
we don't know.'
Donald Rumsfeld
Department of Defense news briefing Feb. 12, 2002
 |
|
|
nothing
featured
What is the status of images?
Paris is invisible
 The
desire for a totalizing view of our world is omnipresent,
and reflected in the evolution of diagrams, biological imaging,
and databases. But, according to philosopher, anthropologist
and curator Bruno Latour's Paris:
Invisible City, such attempts at complete cartographic
indexes on the contrary might hinder vision. Paris, for Latour,
is not visualized by static, isolated images, but rather by
the traces of the transitory and interdependent. The city is
tracked through the social and technical networks that give
meaning to spaces, like the tourist map that depends on an infrastructure
of manufactured and maintained architectural signage.
The web-based work Invisible
City combines ethnographic observations, theoretical
discussion and photographs in the form of a 'sociological web
opera' with fifty-three 'plans'. The experience of moving between
the web-opera's plans resembles that of moving through a physical
city. Since there is no point of view making all of Paris visible,
the solution is to move; 'and then, suddenly, Paris gradually
becomes visible'.
 Invisible
City raises questions also focused in the exhibition
Iconoclash-
Beyond the Image-Wars in Science, Religion and Art,
which Latour co-curated in 2002. Iconoclash confronts
three types of clashes about the importance, sanctity and power
of representations: in science, in art and in religion. 'Icono-clash'
[not clasm], is when there is a deep and disturbing uncertainty
about the role, power, status, danger, violence of an image
or a given representation; when one does not know whether an
image should be broken or restored; when one no longer knows
if the image-breaker is a courageous innovator or a vandal,
if the image-worshipper is a pious bigot or a respectable devout,
or if the image-maker is a devious faker or a clever fact-maker
and truth-seeker.
'The visible is never in an isolated image or in something
outside of images, but in the montage of images, a transform
of images, a traverse through different views, a progression,
a formatting, a networking.' - Bruno Latour -
---
links:
 |
PARIS:
Invisible City, A sociological web opera | ~ | Bruno
Latour's Web Site | ~ | Iconocalsh.
Beyond the Image-Wars in Science, Religion and Art | ~ |
Iconoclash
presentation |
---
former featured nothings
:
 GUANTANAMO;
A LEGAL BLACK HOLE - The Guantanamo prison camp is a territory
beyond the reach of any law and outside the jurisdiction
of any court. |
| |
 MARTIN
CREED: WORK NO. 79: 'SOME BLU-TACK KNEADED, ROLLED
INTO A BALL, AND DEPRESSED AGAINST A WALL |
| |
 VACUUM
TO NORWAY! Issak Kiflu has been living in Norway for ten
years, but formally he does not exist. |
| |
 LOST
CHAIR - by Heidi Rødstøl.
Installation in living room, paint on carpet, variable
dimensions, 2003. |
| |
 24
YEAR OLD GANGA NEUPANE IS STATELESS Like several million
persons worldwide Ganga Neupane has no citizenship. Being
stateless means not having regular citizenship rights. |
| |
RAISING
OF STREET LAMP FOR PLACING OF TIRE - On November 27, 1996,
Andreas Slominski upr ooted a lamppost in order to place
an abandoned tire around it. The tire was then later stolen. |
| |
PENTAGON
HAS STOPPED ALL REFERENCE TO "NUMBER KILLED"
in official releases. The preferred word "casualties"
conceals responsibility and makes moral questions into
non-issues. Moreover the number of casualties is a non-subject
in the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
| |
BUY NOTHING
DAY - exposes the environmental and ethical consequences of
consumerism. ... |
| |
CREATION
OF ANTIMATTER - CERN have announced that they have passed
through nature's looking glass and created atoms made of antimatter,
or anti-atoms ... |
| |
REFUGEES
ARE NON-PERSONS - taking photographs that could "humanise
or personalise" asylum seekers has been banned by
former defense minister Peter Reith's office in Australia
... |
| |
|
WHAT IS
- WHAT IS NOT? - a story about an encounter and about trying
to differ between fact and non-fact ... |
| |
THE
RIGHT NOT TO BE BORN - the French parliament has passed
a bill that states that "nobody can claim to have
been harmed simply by being born". the extraordinary
bill was a response to a conviction by the French supreme
court that is said to have established the right not to
be born ... |
| |
|
THE 11,202,803
CHILDREN - who were born out of nothing during the 31 days
of Mars 2002 ... |
| |
NOTHING
I KNOW / SOMETHING I DON’T KNOW - by Graham Gussin
... |
| |
|
THE NOTHING
OF TERROR AND RESPONS ON TERROR - the World Trade Center - Afghanistan
and on ... |
| |
THE
POTENT NOTHING OF CYBERSPACE - this virtual reality in which
we now are taking part ...
NOTHING
AT ROOSEUM, Malmö's Center for Contemporary Art, 3 November
- 16 December, 2001. works by 35 artists exploring notions
of invisibility, imagination and dematerialisation ...
FOR
EVERY TENT; THE OTHER!
- consisting of two Irish green, empty tents, one raised outside
Atelier 35 in Bucharest, and one inside the gallery space
...
THE
HYPER-METAPHOR; UK, RAISING TENTS
- containing, among other things, a motorway, ten tents, a
text discussion and an internet diary ...
---
-
suggestions is gratefully accepted!
|
|
|
