Lost in Space. The Art of Antony Gormley

 

There are two theories about space – Newtonian absolute and independent. Then Leibnitz who said it is a relationship. Kant said both may be true but it is only experienced subjectively and our whole way of thinking about left-right, front-back etc. is in relation to our bodies and we project that onto space.

Antony Gormley

PILE I, 2017 A. Gormley

Antony Gormley – Sculpture

Antony Gormley, born 30 August 1950, is a British sculptor. He became widely known and award-winning for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space.

His work has developed the potential opened up by sculpture since the ’60 through a critical engagement with both his own body and those of others in a way that confronts fundamental both philosophical and metaphysical questions of where human beings stand in relation to nature and the cosmos.

Old Cemeteries and Memory of the Dead

All Saints’ Day/ Wszystkich Świętych is an annual national holiday in Poland to celebrate the saints on the 1st of November. It is also known as The Day of the Dead, as many people remember dead family members and friends on this day. Special church services are held to commemorate the saints in various towns and cities in Poland. Many people lay flowers and candles on the graves of the deceased. This tradition continues through to All Souls’ Day/ Dzień Zaduszny/ Zaduszki, which is celebrated on the 2nd of November.

CONTAIN[ERA] Materialized information transfer in the post-Internet era

We believe, art is not only a mirror reflecting the state of its time, but it is an active force changing the very world it exists in.

CONTAIN[ERA]

Sharing and obtaining, site-specific versus non-site-specific, bridging the gap between local and global and discovering our roots in the new post-Internet era – those are the main topics of an international exhibition project Contain[era]. Eight shipping containers will be turned into moving galleries, each providing space for a multimedia installation of one European emerging artist. From August 20th, 2015 these exhibitions will travel on a circle route throughout Europe for two months connecting nearby cultures. The project will culminate in the Prague Symposium opening on October 24th, 2015.

Wrestling with Memory

Philosophy — what’s the use?

To a greater or lesser extent, in our everydayness, we are constantly facing such fundamental problems, like the nature of our being, the nature, and scope of our knowledge, the relationships between truth, belief, perception. More or less consciously we constantly ask metaphysical and ontological questions about the most general features of reality, such as existence, time and space, the relationship between mind and body, objects and their properties, wholes and their parts, events, processes, and causation. Therefore, Philosophy seems to be something immanent and inherent to human beings.

Archaeology of Memory – a brief overview

Archaeology, considered as an academic discipline, is engaged in the study of human activity in the past, through the analysis of artifacts, ecofacts, architecture, landscape, and any other pieces of evidence of human activity in the world over the centuries. Nowadays some researchers depart from the above-mentioned definition of archaeology and emphasize the study of material culture (i.a. biography of things), regardless of the time of their creation.

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