Abstract
Abstract To develop an idea of study, a lead is taken on the work of the artist Mark Dion. Dion’s work, and more in particular his “Tate Thames Dig,” brings together many of the elements that fosters the coming into being of matters of study. By re-enacting the 14th century cabinets of curiosity, Dion questions how modern science shape our current understanding of knowledge production. With his work, he causes an amazement for the ecology of things. At the same time he evokes a request for an entanglement between science and the world that signals an exposure to the plurality of our present. By doing so, he calls into being a way of thinking about scientific practices as study practices. Not as isolated practices that aim at discovering new knowledge, but as collective practices that give something the power to affect and make a public thinking.
Highlights
To develop an idea of study, a lead is taken on the work of the artist Mark Dion
In response to the invitation of Tate museum to set up a project to celebrate the opening of the new Tate museum in London, the contemporary artist Mark Dion had the idea to exhibit the raw material collected during the two week-long digs, at Millbank, across the Thames from the old Tate Gallery, and at Bankside, just below the new Tate
The Tate Thames Dig generated a reflection upon the dynamic tidal flux of the river and the material it carries over the epochs of its existence, it constitutes a public gathering around the issue of digging and grasping, and scientific research
Summary
The collecting methodology for the first phase of the project followed the established practice of field work. Diversity played an important role, it was no starting point His ambition was not to show how the collected material represented a kind of multiple perspective on the river and to contrast it with an individual or one-sided perspective. In this sense, the fieldwork that consists of picking up what catches one's eye while walking along the river, can be seen as an attempt to strengthen one's exposure to the world, others, and oneself. The fieldwork that consists of picking up what catches one's eye while walking along the river, can be seen as an attempt to strengthen one's exposure to the world, others, and oneself It is a way of becoming present in the present, without any projection.
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