Fluorescent Umwelt Presentation
Guillaume Stagnaro's Fluorescent Umwelt presentation
Former Tax Office Building, Leon Štukelj Square, Maribor
Thursday, 30 January at 17:30
guided by: Simona Vidmar, project co-curator
EXTENDED UNTIL 30 JANUARY 2014!
As the project finishes join us on its last day for an insightful presentation with Simona Vidmar, UGM curator, who helped bring the project to Maribor and was closely involved in its installation.
“Fluorescent Umwelt is an Art intervention in public space following a research around the idea of parasitism and is directly inspired by the reading of the seminal book of Ethology ‘A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans’ (1934) by Jacob von Uexküll. In his book von Uexküll develops the notion of Umwelt according to which “every living species has its own universe, to which it gives meaning and imposes its determination”. We share and interact today almost permanently with another kind of "species” which, much as the living species described by von Uexküll, has his own universe. Programmed objects, ubiquitous in our modern society, because of their ability to perceive and act on the world give a new meaning to it in the same way that ethology allowed mankind to take a new look at the world at that time. Fluorescent Umwelt is the (temporary) invasion of the electrical system of the former Tax Office building by a colony representative of this new species. A colony of small organisms that feed on electricity and play with the lights after sunset.” Guillaume Stagnaro
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