Talk
Critical Spatial Practice Lecture Series VIII: Knut Åsdam and Pelin Tan
The artists Pelin Tan and Knut Åsdam aim to articulate methodologies in their critical spatial practices.
"Transversal Methodology from Art to Camp"
How do existing methodological structures entangle the affect of the critical spatial practices? What tools have been developed to enact new transversal methods for instituting this practice?
Knut Åsdam will focus on the spaces of reception, their limits and the space of experience. He would like discuss: What are the social and class thresholds in relation to the spaces of art. What is the functions of audience in relation to this, and for the function of the art work (and its discussion) so to speak, the need to shift from one space to another, from one set of viewer dynamics and contexts to another.
Pelin Tan will discuss about transversal methodology from the school to the camp to the borderlines and the related instituting practices. Tan and Åsdam are exchanging and collaborating over ten years in various spatial contexts. The presentation and talk would be about their shared ideas and reflections through their critical spatial practices.
Pelin Tan is trained in sociology, art history and design. She is currently a research professor residency at Nordland Kunst, Kabelvag. She is a lead author of Cities and Social Progress report edited by Saskia Sassen and Edgar Peterse (Cambridge Press, 2018). Tan was visiting assoc.prof. at Hong Kong Polytechnic School of Design (2016), Architecture Faculty, University of Cyprus (2018) and vice-dean of Architecture Faculty of Mardin Artuklu (2013 -2017). Tan was a research fellow of BAK Utrecht (2017 - 2018) and DAAD (Berlin), The Japan Foundation (Osaka), Design Trust (Hong Kong), IASPIS (Stockholm), CCA Kitakyushu and ACT-MIT Cambridge. She is at the board of pedagogical consortium of Campus in Camps, Dheisheh Refugee Camp (DAAR, West Bank), curatorial board member IBA2027 Stuttgart and Curator at Matera ECC 2019, Italy.
Knut Åsdam (born 1968) is a Norwegian artist who currently lives and works in Oslo. For more than fifteen years he has actively contributed to the international art scene with exhibitions, publications and broadcasts. He established his international career through the art scene in New York, where he lived for ten years, after finishing studies at Goldsmiths, London (1987–92) and at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht (1992–94).
Critical Spatial Practice is organized by MFA Art and Public Space (MAPS).
