Space of Knowledge - A performative exploration

How do you know where you are? And in whatever space you are, how do you know the rules for navigating? You are warmly invited to the Space of Knowledge, a performative exploration, a short series to explore these questions, and more: improvising with our assumptions and relations to the space, investigating unexplored possibilities, uncovering unpredictability, tapping into creativity and embodied knowledge.

For who?

Student and staff members who are interested in this exploration

Session Breakdown

Our base is the university space and its architecture. We will work with and from spaces of work, spaces of meeting, spaces of solitude and withdrawal, spaces of passage.

18 February

We will start with the Dérive (French for “drifting”), a playful practice of ‘getting lost’ and aimless wandering. Developed by French theorist Guy Debord as part of his critique of the modern, structured society.

25 February - 11 March

In these sessions we will investigate and generate actions, articulate and analyze experiences, using these elements:

Step 1

Find & Define Participants find and define the space or place you want to work in or with.

Step 2

Observe, explore, collect & research Data, Impressions, Sensations, Sounds,Materials, Movements, Actions, Narratives, Discourses, Histories, Biographies, Rules, Images, Ideas

Step 3

Develop What is observed, researched and collected, can be transformed into actions or artefacts (objects (found), text (spoken), sound-collage, installation)

Step 4

Present The material is ‘given back’ to the room. Actions are performed in the space, artefacts are (re)arranged in the space.

You can join the whole series (preferably, as it has a build-up), or separate sessions (max 25 participants per session). Participation is free of charge.