Haim Steinbach
Once again the world is flat
Artists' Research Laboratory (V CSAV)
1–22 July 1999
Once again the world is flat
original, multiple, ephemeral; home, country, place; objects, artifacts, things;
rituals, addictions, transience; stations, crossroads, transportation;
earth, air, helium; supermarket, cellular phone, internet;
appearance, non-place, theory; perception, relazation, trip;
plastic, clay, liquid;
collections, configurations, contingencies; arrangements, repetitions, typologies;
game, choice, metonymy; performance, gravity, nomadism;
attitudes, gestures, looks; two thousand stones.
The workshop, by Haim Stenbach, focused on the double theme of objects and their position in the space.
The work began with a collective excercize: Steinbach asked all twenty-seven students, coming from fifteen different countries, to bring any kind of object they preferred to the course. He got the students to dispose the objects on the long row of tables. The tables were sort of shelves around which each student started discussing about their choices. This allowed the students to get to know one another exchanging precious ideas.
Director
Annie Ratti
Curators
Giacinto di Pietrantonio
Angela Vettese
Coordinator
Anna Daneri