Transient Senses
29 April — 21 June 2015
— a project about architecture, understood in its most basic definition of structure, form and materiality
- Artists
- Alex Arteaga
- Curators
- Lluís Nacenta
- Venue
- Pavelló Mies van der Rohe
- A project by
- Fundació Mies van der Rohe, with the support of Goethe Institut Barcelona, Sónar + D, Fundació Antoni Tàpies and the Master of Research in Art and Design (Eina & UAB)
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The sound installation presented at the pavilion considers two categories of perception, the inner space and the outer space, and explores the flow between one and the other. The project’s philosophy is generated by various explorations of architecture and cognition, originating in the works of Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch, and developing, among other theorists, by Shaun Gallagher, Ezequiel Di Paolo, Thomas Fuchs, or Dan Zahavi. The fundamental question is: can architecture be a condition in the appearance of feeling? With this perspective, the immediate, sensual and pre-aesthetic interaction between human bodies and their constructed environment is analyzed, and the foundation for understanding the aesthetic experience of architecture and opening the channels of participation through art are made.
In addition to the installation, a video essay, audio pieces and text by Alex Arteaga were presented at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies. Research seminars were also conducted by Alex Arteaga at the Goethe Institut and at Sonar + D.
Alex Arteaga
- Artist
ALEX ARTEAGA’s research integrates aesthetic and philosophical practices relating to the production of knowledge, the emergence of sense, architecture, and art practice through phenomenological and enactivist approaches.He studied piano, music theory, composition, electroacoustic music, and architecture in Berlin and Barcelona, and received a PhD in philosophy from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.He currently heads the Auditory Architecture Research Unit and the Department of Auditory Architecture in the masters program of sound studies at the Berlin University of the Arts, where he is developing the three-year research project Architecture of Embodiment as an Einstein Junior Fellow.
Last update on May 2015
Lluís Nacenta
Lluís Nacenta is a curator, writer, musician and researcher in the space of confluence of music, art, technology and science. He holds a degree in mathematics, a degree in piano, a master’s degree in comparative studies of literature, art and thought and a doctorate in humanities, with a thesis on musical repetition. He has been Head of Postgraduate Studies at Eina, University Center of Design and Art of Barcelona, from 2015 to 2017, Director of Hangar, Center for Production and Research of Visual Arts, from 2018 to 2021, and is Director of Quo Artis since September 2022.
Last updated, November 13th, 2022
