Space2 – psychocartography of conceived presence

SERENDIPIT:US (Eli Goldstein og Kjersti Wikstrøm)
Curated by Henrik der Minassian
March 2nd - March 25th, 2007

The exhibition Space2 focuses on human interactivity and simultaneity in spatial understanding and experience.

Space2 (2007), SERENDIPIT:US (Eli Goldstein og Kjersti Wikstrøm). Photo: Are Carlsen

Using the "conception of presence"; the state of experiencing/discovering/sensing a place in parallel with the conception of another, it explores how "being in many places at once" continuously influences one's understanding of any possible reality.

Based on a digital archive of sensations, an atlas of emotion, established by the artists during two individual but simultaneous stays in Berlin and New York, they explore experimental strategies for mapping and systematizing spatial conditions and sequences.

Sensation and memory are treated as procedural tools as Goldstein and Wikstrøm develop the project's tactile rules and use them as building blocks in the spatial concretization of the atlas's subjective topography.

Space2 playfully challenges the process-based and methodical analysis that artists and architects rely on to develop new mental and physical spaces.

The exhibition includes installation, drawing, photography, and video.

Space2 (2007), SERENDIPIT:US (Eli Goldstein og Kjersti Wikstrøm). Photo: Are Carlsen

Space2 (2007), SERENDIPIT:US (Eli Goldstein og Kjersti Wikstrøm). Photo: Are Carlsen

Goldstein and Wikstrøm operate at the intersection of art, architecture, and research. With a focus on methodology and analysis in generating and exploring imagined and actual spaces, their work approaches the phenomenological aspects of spatial conditions.

Space2 (2007), SERENDIPIT:US (Eli Goldstein og Kjersti Wikstrøm). Photo: Are Carlsen

Space2 (2007), SERENDIPIT:US (Eli Goldstein og Kjersti Wikstrøm). Photo: Are Carlsen

Space2 (2007), SERENDIPIT:US (Eli Goldstein og Kjersti Wikstrøm). Photo: Are Carlsen

Space2 (2007), SERENDIPIT:US (Eli Goldstein og Kjersti Wikstrøm). Photo: Are Carlsen