![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We (i.e., institutions: museums, universities, corporations) know well how to convene symposia, but we don’t know how to sustain and institute knowledge that is inclusive of the plurality of ways of knowing. This thread is developed, to a degree, in my interview with Irwin, which also contains the background information about the event.Īnother thread has to do with the question: if we’d want to organize something like the Symposium on Habitability today, how should we go about it? Because by now, with the experience of the past 50 years, it seems to me that our biggest problem is not the lack of visionary multidisciplinary gatherings or one-off “experimental” events, but our disastrous inability to sustainably support the relationships and ideas these events generate. One, quite immediate, has to do with the audacity, or even sheer arrogance, of Irwin’s creative act. What the hell is he thinking?Įver since I learned about Robert Irwin’s First National Symposium on Habitability of Environment of 1970, about 15 years ago, my processing of it runs in three parallel threads. Instead, the artist decides to meddle in his collaborator’s field of research and attempts to change its course. John Cage, “The Mushroom Haiku” (0:00-2:48)Īn artist is commissioned by a museum to collaborate with a scientist to create an artwork for an exhibition. ![]()
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