Artefact 2016
Up in the Air
ed. by Karen Verschooren

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Editor(s)

Karen Verschooren

Publication

Leuven : Artefact, 2016

Scope

114 Pages, illustrated, 21 cm.

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Publication accompanying the annual exhibition and arts festival in Leuven that focuses on contemporary visual culture, current events and social challenges. With the theme in 2016, Up in the Air (Feb 9-21)the organizers aimed to investigate the poetic, political and economic parameters that guide our relation to airspace. The spiritual dimensions that seem to be closely related to an ‘up-there’, the hopes and dreams for which we turn our gaze up, the attempts to understand the intangible and sometimes invisible stand in stark contrast to the more practical political and economic approaches that organize and regulate our use of air space in areas such as transportation, scanning and surveillance, and air quality control. The artists in Up in the Air took a closer look at our poetic, political and economic relationship to airspace, offering new perspectives on domains such as telecommunications, transportation and ecology.

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Person as subject

James Turrell, Paolo di Trapani & Coelux srl ; Ief Spincemaille, Frederic Geurts, Rob Sweere, Berndnaut Smilde, Alistair McClymont, Charlotte Charbonnel, Vincent & Lawrence Malstaf, Bilal Bahir, Sjoerd Knibbeler, Javier Pérez, Marije Baalman, Amy Balkin, James Bridle, the Center for Genomic Gastronomy & Nicola Twilley, Alicia Framis, Laurent Grasso, Ruben Pater, Gonçalo F. Cardoso, Forensic Architecture, Superflux Wesley Goatley & Georgina Voss, Bigert & Bergström, Liam Young, Mattias Schevenels, Tijmen, Bruyndonckx, Sara Kreike, Margot Budts, Lore D'Haene, Ruben Binnard, Lene De Vrieze, Elisa Dehasque

Keywords

surveillance , various disciplines , aesthetics - critical aesthetics , biennial, triennial, quadrennial , politics , economy , natural phenomena

Geographical location

Belgium Leuven

Location

Cabinet 12 - 3: Kunstcentra diverse locaties