Projects

diaries is an international, ongoing, collaborative art project. The concept is for each artist to produce one picture every day over a period of time. Format and artistic implementation is individually chosen. Our intention is to share our ongoing creative process while doing one work every day; to show the flux of inspiration; the changes and what touches us over a period of time. To invite artists into a daily working process is something we believe is a counter act in our fragmented, visually overloaded contemporary lifestyle.

Cartographic maps have guided our explorations for centuries, allowing us to navigate the world. Science maps have the potential to guide our search for knowledge in the same way, allowing us to visualize scientific results, helping us to organize, understand, and communicate the dynamic and changing structure of science and technology. The participants in “Map, Mind, Memory” ask us to handle maps in a new way, examine thoughts and rediscover space at a time when there is great confusion about what is where, how far is far and where we should go.

It’s often thought that people don’t see things until they know something about it. But what is this knowing about? The topic of the exhibition is tacit (quiet) knowledge. Michael Polanyi was the man who tried to make sense of how new discoveries, knowledge of yet unknown things, can be made in science. Tacit knowledge was his key to the mystery of discovery. Tacit knowledge implies that one knows all the time much more than one can ever tell. A body of non-discursive knowledge exists, which is something that one’s life has taught over the years, but one has learned it without any awareness of the process of learning. Tacit knowledge includes for example all the physical, intuitive, mythic and experienced knowledge we are bearing. Things we know but are difficult to tell in words.