About

GEOGRAPHIA - the interactive laboratory.

Geographia is an art project which investigates our connection to the world and the many ways we perceive it. It aims to rediscover the boundaries between our mental space, personal space and the social space that surrounds it.

Geographia is composed as an interactive laboratory, where philosophical and poetical questions about boundaries, place, landscape, memory, time and identity evoke an imaginary voyage.

Scored instructions trigger dialogue and invite you to discover meanings hidden behind materials, words and representations.

That way, Geographia unfolds as a poetical experience that generates consciousness of the many relations between our self and the environment. 

Specific description.

The artist welcomes her audience inside the laboratory which is about to be activated: carefully placed items and visual material such as a collection of rocks, piles of flour, pastry crusts, notes, paper, sketches and 3d models, will serve as props. The artist addresses the audience instructions to create lines, to question or rearrange them, to stand and observe, note down, move, change perspective and (re)orientate. Every member of the audience finds its way to integrate. Every reaction is useful: from a mere presence and observation, selecting where to stand or be seated, to participation, dialogue and creation.

The time inside the laboratory works as a simulation of real life experience: what does it mean to be in a place, on a spot in front of a landscape, alone or with the other(s), in movement or in silence.

The gradual engagement of the audience transforms the lab’s space into a live map of imaginary landscapes, paths, islands, borders and shores.

credits:

concept and development: Antigone Michalakopoulou

dramaturgical advice and assistance: Nassia Fourtouni

co-production with Workspacebrussels

with the support of Recyclart.

Thanks to Les Brigittines, Kaaistudios, platform 0090, Extracity Antwerpen, STUK Leuven and all the people who participated in the project so far.

Contact:
geographia.2015@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/geographia2015

http://antigonemichalakopoulou.blogspot.be/

References:

Books – Essays - Internet.

- http://progressivegeographies.com/ 

- http://icelawproject.org/reflections-2/dynamic-territories/

-The Geopolitics of King Lear: territory, land, earth. Stuart Elden.

-Doreen Masey, For Space.

-Place and space, Yi Fu Tuan.

-Territory, a short introduction. David Delaney.

-‘The world of Perception’ Maurice Merleau Ponty. Routledge edition 2004.

-‘Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the politics of spectatorship’. 2012, Claire Bishop.

-Chance. Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art.

-Francys Alys, a story of deception. Edited by Mark Godfrey.

-“Allan Kaprow: Art as Life.” Eva Meyer-Hermman, Andrew

-“One place after another. Site Specific Art and Locational Identity”, Miwon

Kwon. 2004, The MIT Press.

-“The lure of the local, Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society.” By Lucy R. Lippard

-“Antagonism and Relational aesthetics”, Claire Bishop, 2004.

-“Building, Dwelling, Thinking”, Martin Heidegger.

Perchuk, Stephanie Rosenthal. Getty publications 2008

-“An Archival Impulse”, Hal Foster, 2004.

-“Robert Smithson: the collected writings”. Edited by Jack Flam. 1966.

-‘Situationists and Architecture’, Peter Woolen.

-‘Six Years: The dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972’, Lucy

Lippard. University of California Press, 1997.

Works & art projects by Francis Allys

“When faith moves mountains”.

“Paradox of praxis”.

“The green line”.

“Bridge/Puente”.