TAB Event - "Personal Structures Time - Space - Existence" Symposium

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At Setagaya Art Museum
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This symposium "Personal Structures: Time-Space-Existence“ will take place in Amsterdam ("Time" took place June 2007), New York ("Space"), and Tokyo ("Existence"). The symposia are organized by GlobalArtAffairs Foundation, in cooperation with local institutions and with the assistance of art historian Peter Lodermeyer, curator Sarah Puschel, Karlyn De Jongh and the artist Rene Rietmeyer.
In a discussion with Joseph Kosuth, Japanese cherry blossom time was agreed upon as the best time to hold the Tokyo symposium. In Tokyo, the center of discussion will be: Existence. Existence, in the strictly philosophical sense (for example, as it is used by Heidegger and Sartre), is the “kind of being” that exclusively applies to humans. “To exist” does not merely mean being present but rather “self-design”, being open for possibilities, and freedom.
We live in a thoroughly-organized world under constant pressure – the pressure to perform, the pressures of time and conformity – as well as pressures stemming from the influence of the mass media. Given these circumstances, art can bear, regardless of purpose, the function to articulate existential topics and create the possibility for moments of intensified self-awareness. Therefore, one’s own existence, with its particular terms and conditions, can become an artistic subject and thus, serve as model for the self-encounter of the viewer.

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