LANDSCAPES OF MIND (2018)
Landscape of Mind I, 2018, close-up, color ink on paper and video projection. Art IN Academia, CEU/OSA Archives. Budapest, Hungary. (photo by Adrian Zoltan)
Landscape is a picturesque but somewhat unclear metaphor for cognition and processes of life. Being one of many visual metaphors, the power of landscape is based on its ability to impose a familiar, well-understood picture on what is less familiar or even still largely obscure. According to the ordinary use of the term, landscape refers to the visible features of an area of land, which are often considered in terms of their aesthetic qualities. However, in talking about cognitive, neural, semiotic, epistemic landscapes, or “the inner landscape of our space of intuitive plausibility,” as neurophilosopher Thomas Metzinger puts it, what is it that this metaphor brings about? Which features and of which land are we expected to observe? Which paths are we going to follow, and is it we at all that observe and follow along? Most importantly, does the landscape itself provide us with any path towards a better understanding or any means to mark unknown territories, such as the mind and life?
Landscapes of minds provides an outlook on the distinctive features of two different territories in philosophy--continental and analytical philosophy--and reflects on the paths for an artist to follow in creating her work of art. It is a project I realized in collaboration with my former and current fellow students that specialize in different areas and traditions of philosophy.
Landscapes of mind is meant to provide the viewer with a general feel for a range of expressive possibilities of the two different philosophical traditions by making them speak about the meaning of the artwork. Landscapes of mind is also my reaction to contemporary art, much of which depends crucially on accompanying and often superimposing narratives to qualify it as art. I create a series of paintings, which are perfectly capable of standing on their own, in order to make explicit two contrasting but equally possible implications for the discourse-dependent art: no narrative brings any more meaning to the artwork and virtually any narrative can be imposed on the artwork.
In collaboration with RSM (invited artist)
Original texts by Shien-Hauh Leu (Southern Methodist University), Rob Hoveman (CEU) and Caglan Cinar Diek (CEU)
Landscapes of minds provides an outlook on the distinctive features of two different territories in philosophy--continental and analytical philosophy--and reflects on the paths for an artist to follow in creating her work of art. It is a project I realized in collaboration with my former and current fellow students that specialize in different areas and traditions of philosophy.
Landscapes of mind is meant to provide the viewer with a general feel for a range of expressive possibilities of the two different philosophical traditions by making them speak about the meaning of the artwork. Landscapes of mind is also my reaction to contemporary art, much of which depends crucially on accompanying and often superimposing narratives to qualify it as art. I create a series of paintings, which are perfectly capable of standing on their own, in order to make explicit two contrasting but equally possible implications for the discourse-dependent art: no narrative brings any more meaning to the artwork and virtually any narrative can be imposed on the artwork.
In collaboration with RSM (invited artist)
Original texts by Shien-Hauh Leu (Southern Methodist University), Rob Hoveman (CEU) and Caglan Cinar Diek (CEU)
Landscapes of Mind, 2018, installation view. Art IN Academia, CEU/OSA Archives. Budapest, Hungary. (photo by Rodrigo Guzman)
Landscape of Mind I, 2018, installation view, color ink on paper and video projection. (photo by Adrian Zoltan)
Landscape of Mind II, 2018, detail.
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Landscape of Mind I, 2018, detail.
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Landscape of Mind II, part 2 (variation on Dream of the Fisherman's Wife), 2018, color ink on paper.
Landscape of Mind II, 2018, installation view, color ink on paper and video projection. (photo by Adrian Zoltan)
Landscape of Mind II, 2018, installation view, production stage. (photo by Rodrigo Guzman)
Landscapes of Mind, 2018, installation view. Art IN Academia, CEU/OSA Archives. Budapest, Hungary. (photo by Adrian Zoltan)
Landscape of Mind III, 2018, color ink on paper.
Landscape of Mind III, 2018, installation view. Art IN Academia, CEU/OSA Archives. Budapest, Hungary. (photo by Adrian Zoltan)
