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28.08.2024
New reception building of the Rubenshuis completed
The Posa... is the First House by Juan Muñoz
In this extract, which preceded the realisation of The House Where It Always Rains, the artist evokes a ritual carried out by a small community in the Andes, during which it uses the broken wooden fragments of houses to build “the house of the forefathers”, after which the transparent and symbolic construction is set on fire. Muñoz’s erudite description evokes the sculpture that was erected in 1992 on the beach at Barcelona....
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Guessing the Future of the Library by Bart Verschaffel
The architecture programme of the ‘library’ seems old and dated. It is related to the materiality and the culture of the book, while everyone knows that the new information supports operate electronically. Moreover these new media store and disseminate not only current information and new pictures and texts. The entire old intellectual culture can – in principle – be transferred to new media...
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Spaces for the Mind, Objects for Well Being by Aslı Çiçek
Samuel Beckett’s second published novel, Murphy, opens with the eponymous protagonist having tied himself naked and with seven scarves to his rocking chair, swinging back and forth in the dark of his room. With this ritual Beckett’s well read, intellectual character retreats from everyday reality, relieves his body to set his mind free: ‘for it was not until his body is appeased that he could come alive in his mind’.2...
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