Description:
The information overload races on; in public space it’s more like overkill. Whatspace wants to draw from our relationship to information in public space - to offer us the consecutive possibilities of confrontation, tranquillity and renewed concentration - and they want to do so experimentally, through the power of abstract art. Not only do they want to make this power manifest, they also want to grasp hold of it. Through approaching information exchange experimentally, as an intensely loaded erotics which manifests in and through abstract art, this project becomes fascinating - both for people interested in the powers of abstraction and for those who wish to sharpen their perception of things as they are. Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect (the critic) upon art’ states the famous North American writer, critic and essayist, Susan Sontag, in the essay ‘Against Interpretation’. She suggests that ‘we must learn to see more, to hear more, to feel more’. To achieve a more sensitive reading of the work requires a good listener. Sontag therefore makes the plea, ‘in place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.’ 0Participants: Koen Delaere (NL), Cheryl Donegan (USA), Harm van den Dorpel (NL), Wade Guyton (USA), Bas van den Hurk (NL), Sandra Kranich (GER), Alexandra Leykauf (GER), Tom Meacham (USA), Rory Pilgrim (UK), Remco Torenbosch (NL), Joelle Tuerlinckx (B), Evi Vingerling (NL), Wendy White (USA), Jens Wolf (DE)0Exhibition: Onomatopee projects, Eindhoven, the Netherlands (9.6.-15.7.2014)