From 8th July to 18th September 2005
Project curated by Berta Sichel in collaboration with Céline Brouwez
The Infirma Terra of thought is all ambiguous and diaphanous and stands in contrast to the idea of terra firma. In a post-modern world, it is much more important to try to arrive at a position than to position oneself clearly. Accordingly, the media, the concept of mobility, architecture (the idea of suburbanisation of the world) with its manipulation of space and time, as well as its linear nature, its repetitive and circular schemes, often stifle social relations.
The exhibition Teerra infirma refers to these notions and the precept that underpins it is that only an interdisciplinary (or perhaps even, despite the risk of flattery, tabla-disciplinary) approach could synthesise the variety of potential insights that exist in these forms of analysis that we conventionally find separated from one another. In a way, the exhibition will show an almost unreal world, so that it can be seen as a simple visual ‘survey’ of all these ideas, as well as an attempt to represent the common ambiguity of these terms that often derive from confusing that which is specific with that which is punctual and that which is general with that which is abstract. As it was once said, ‘those who scratch the local with the punctual… are confusing the geographical scale with the processes of abstraction of thought…’.
The exhibition makes clear concepts such as movement, the city and urbanity, space, architecture, nature, all of them illustrated by the visual work of artists from different disciplines. The works that have been chosen will occupy the entire space of the EACC: on the one hand, the main hall will serve as a frame for the works of Jordi Colomer, Anouk de Clercq, Hans Op de Beeck, Inés Lombardi, Francesco Jodice, Dionisio González and Liz Diller. In parallel, audiovisual creations by Brian Doyle, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Terence Gower, Emily Richardson, Ange Leccia, Kurt de Haeseleer, Anri Sala, Perry Bard, Michel Lorand, Robert Hamilton, Vivian Ostrovsky, Pawel Wojtasik, Yannick Koller, Rachel Reupke and Chip Lord, structured in four programmes, in the cinema. Finally, on the exterior structure of the EACC, the films Ipanema Theories (2000), by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Suburbs of the Void (2004), a live performance by Thomas Köner, will be screened.