Description

Body and space as equally different and intertwined ways of understanding the world have a long tradition in architecture and art as modalities of perception, cognition and creation. In the context of contemporary conditions of economies, sciences, information flows, and image worlds with a dominance of often one-dimensional surfaces, questions about the aesthetic and anthropological dimensions of body and space as fundamental parameters of place-making arise in particular density. Focusing on their relations can contribute to marking intersections and limitations of architecture and art as well as to highlighting their specific interpretations of contemporary complexities, meanings and possibilities of body and space. Beyond dialectical perspectives, the symposium seeks to present and interrogate a wide variety of conceptions from the perspective of those acting in art, architecture and philosophy - from physical response to thought model, from the body in a perceptual state to constructed spatial figures. By bringing together positions with approaches to ways of doing, each manifesting itself in a particular way, yet with practices that are realized and received transdisciplinarily, it is possible to differentiate new gradations and to unfold future-oriented aspects in successive openness.

Construction and figuration
Beatrix von Pilgrim, Berlin/Karlsruhe
Margitta Buchert, Köln/Hannover
Oliver Thill, Rotterdam

Motion
Thomas Bayrle, Frankfurt
Maurer United, Maastricht
Heinz Paetzold, Amsterdam

Perception processes
Bernhard Leitner, Wien
Philippe Rahm, Paris/Lausanne
Ludger Schwarte, Basel