THE OTHER

AND THE CRITICAL IN BETWEEN

Kent CAED
Fall 2019

we have renovated the Kunstkabinett as a contemporary space of collection, curation, and reposition of objects. These places are smaller in scale, anachronistic, and peculiar in nature. They define a systematic way of interaction between entities. These places provide an adequate space of congregation for humans and non-humans alike. This reinvented typology scales the museum down to the size of an independent gallery /repository and elevates the gallery/repository to the level of a microcosm. This space, thus, becomes The Other which is intense, incompatible, mirroring and yet transforming what is outside*, a heterotopia. These heterotopias act as a proxy for architecture to negotiate a completely interiorized space and the context it has to face, The peculiar space of the exhibition and the urban environment surrounding it, the room and the garden, the Inside and the outside, and the critical in-between. 

Curated by: Zahra Safaverdi / Schidlowski Fellow

Participants: Ezra Bard, Chloe Froning, Ivan Gort Cabeza de Vaca, Bennett Graham, Dylan Herrmann-Holt, Rachel Pillar, Haley Scott, Sarah Spalding, Davor Udovicic, Emily Ussia, Nicholas Vickory, Alix Wilson

* The manuscript of Michel Foucault’s talk on March 1967, based on the text “Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias”, was released into the public domain for an exhibition in Berlin shortly before Foucault’s death.