Don’t You Wonder Sometimes? A Formulary for a New Heterotopy

Ma­rvel is an e­mo­ti­on compa­rable to a­maze­ment that peo­ple feel when they a­re expe­riencing some­thing very ra­re or unex­pected (but not thre­atening).

In the song Sound and Visi­on, Da­vi­d Bowie sings ab­out the mo­ment of won­der in place and time, in which you halt, so new i­deas and im­ages can e­merge. It is this mo­ment be­tween thought and ac­ti­on, in which you may feel es­tranged, that is both be­ing e­voked and expres­sed in the ex­hib­iti­on. The shown works a­re ma­teri­al ex­pres­si­ons of per­sonal fas­ci­na­ti­on, re­sea­rch, thought and act­ing, be­ing pre­sented in­to the pub­lic sphere of the ex­hib­iti­on.

A het­er­otopy is based on an i­dea by the French phi­los­o­pher Mi­chel Fou­cault. It's a place in be­tween, nei­ther pri­vate, nor pub­lic, a place where new rela­ti­ons, new i­deas can ex­ist (in this case) be­tween the work and the au­di­ence, or the ma­teri­al and the space. We want to make a for­mu­la­ry for a new het­er­otopy, in the shape of a pop-up ex­hib­iti­on that is a­ligned to the Eindho­ven Psych Lab fes­ti­val. A vis­u­al hap­pening in place and time.

Text: Glenn Peeters and Pernilla Ellens