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October 02, 2023

Paper on Ethical Conflicts in the Research Project: ARTIS. Research as ‘Dirty’[1]: On Colonial Histories of Research

The ARTIS project description aims to research ‘how art impacts societies depending on their dominant ideologies’. This excerpt by Anisha Gupta Müller (KHB) hopes to turn the question around: how do dominant ideologies affect research in the first place? From the context of weißensee kunsthochschule, Anisha Gupta Müller writes on the ethical problems that foreground scientific research
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July 17, 2023

New publication on visitors’ bodily, emotional, and transformative experience with an installation artwork

Installation art, with its immersive and participatory nature, evokes and necessitates bodily engagement and awareness. A new study shows that these aspects are integral to the overall art experience, appreciation, and transformative outcomes.
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October 04, 2022

Micro-phenomenological intervention by Katrin Heimann in collaboration with Olafur Eliasson

written by Katrin Heimann

In early summer 2021, Katrin Heimann was invited by Studio Olafur Eliasson to collaborate with the museum team at Fondation Beyeler in conducting a series of in-depth, micro-phenomenological interviews with a group of specially invited visitors to “Life.”

Life, 2021, Fondation Beyeler, Photo: Mark Niedermann

A site-specific artwork by artist Olafur Eliasson, Life was installed in 2021 at Fondation Beyeler, near Basel, Switzerland. To create the artwork, Eliasson removed the facade that separated the building from the surrounding garden, extended the existing pond into the galleries, and invited visitors to meander through the exhibition along a wooden walkway at any hour of the day or night. Eliasson is interested in the experiences that arise when artworks and people meet up at particular sites and at particular times. What he exhibits, he believes, is only part of an artwork; the other part emerges through the experiences of the thinking-feeling-moving visitors.
In early summer 2021, Katrin Heimann was invited by Studio Olafur Eliasson to collaborate with the museum team at Fondation Beyeler in conducting a series of in-depth, micro-phenomenological interviews with a group of specially invited visitors to Life. On the webpage https://experiencing-life.net you are invited to listen to some of the experiences shared by the participants! Let us know whether you like it or not? 

Life, 2021, Fondation Beyeler, Photo: Mark Niedermann
Life, 2021, Fondation Beyeler, Photo: Mark Niedermann
Life, 2021, Fondation Beyeler, Photo: Mark Niedermann

More information on the exhibition can be found here.

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