A Heterotopia?
“The location of a thing, in fact, was no longer anything more than a point in its movement, its rest nothing but its movement slowed down infinitely. In other words, from Galileo onward, ever since the seventeenth century, localization was replaced by extension.”
This excerpt from the article was pretty interesting. I honestly didn’t get a chance to read the entire article ,although from what I gathered, this piece was fairly abstract. When a thing and its relative location is deconstructed to nothing more than its point along its movement, or journey, it takes on a new meaning. When translated to art, then art itself is displaced from its normal position and it takes on new possibilities of space and “other spaces”. What is space within a world of art? What is the otherness that is so vital to understanding the human condition? When I am in a room, say my bedroom at my parents house where I grew up, and say I think back on my childhood and i visualize it and I can see a physical place and the interactions that took place in that room… then I realize I am in this very space that I am visualizing but it has a different meaning. What is space and location relative to meaning?
”it is light, ethereal, transparent, or dark, uneven, cluttered.” To me, this represents many locations, many point of views, one place, all places, infinite space and a terrifying understanding of infinity.
