WEST UNIVERSITY OF TIMIȘOARA
FACULTY OF ARTS AND DESIGN
DOCTORAL SCHOOL OF ARTS
A Corpoliteracy Approach to the Ruin II
Galeria Aparte, UNAGE Iași
(189 Sărărie Street)
Exhibition period: 29 Nov – 8 Dec 2024
Opening: 29 November 2024, 6:00 PM
Mirela Cerbu, Ștefan Curelici
curated by Tudor Mutrescu
PhD candidates of the Doctoral School of Arts (FAD–WUT)
Doctoral supervisors: Prof. Adriana Lucaciu, PhD, Prof. Dacian Andoni, PhD
Project coordinators: Prof. Adriana Lucaciu, PhD, Prof. Monica Pop, PhD
Project assistants: PhD candidate Alexandru Bălteanu, PhD candidate Cătălin Marinescu
In a status quo overcrowded with image and information, we increasingly perceive the need for alternative ways of navigating everyday life, in which we can no longer rely exclusively on traditional processes of literacy in relation to our environment, such as text or image.
The transition from the rarity of images to their excessive availability is accompanied by a generalized anxiety and an inability to relate to the external pace of reality, forcing us to move from consumption to selection, in order to avoid an inevitable blindness, in which the perception of images becomes deprived of meaning and interest.
Within this urban-induced anxiety, what mechanisms of prediction, navigation, and understanding of the surrounding environment remain accessible to us? Can we rely on the body as a trustworthy informant of the environment, complementary to traditional methods of navigation?
In the context of the exhibition A Corpoliteracy Approach to the Ruin, we can imagine ruin as a metaphor for a possible human reaction to this process of informational congestion. What remains stable within the porous structures that surround us once they are subjected to an avalanche of information? What are nature’s reactions to human intervention in space, and what are human responses to those reactions?
