Project R-14279

Space, Myth and Form: Modernist Poetics as Method to Learn About a Contemporary Condition of Crisis (Research)

Given that contemporary society faces an ongoing condition of crisis, this project suggests that this present state can be paralleled with similar experiences from the early 20th century. The proposal starts from the premise that in modernism, art played a significant role in making sense of the conception of social life as a state of crisis – so from a current perspective, it is valuable to research its underexplored aspects. Therefore the project aims to apply the potential of artistic research to learning about the particularly sensitive engagement of modernist art practices, characterised by interdisciplinarity, emancipatory vigour and political awareness embedded with refined formal expression. In a dialogue between practice and theory, methodologies guiding the research will be sculptural practice and material experimentation, literary writing, fictioning and mythological imagination, combined with more traditional research methods. More particularly, this project seeks to understand how art's tools can provide a focus on spatial questions as fields of pressing challenges, expanding the limits of how we engage with our living environment. It further seeks to critically activate both the aesthetic and mythopoetic functions of modernist art to process the present and envision the future.

01 November 2023 - 31 October 2024