Installation Corrido[o]r

Artist's book Corrido[o]r

Concept

Nineteen rooms of philosophers at the second floor at the right of Vendelstraat 8 in the University of Amsterdam present at the same time 'one Philosopher's Room'. Each picture of the entrance of the philosopher's room has a certain shade. The colours of each room represent the feeling that in one way or the other was evoked when I took the photos of the entrances. The people that occupy these rooms colour them with their presence; they give the room its meaning. They give colour and meaning to this limited space, breathing these colours and meanings back into reality where we live with the paces of their thoughts. The two-sided concertina fold addresses the dynamic relation between what we are thinking about the world and the ways we give the results of our thinking back to the world. The successive numbers of the rooms, read when passed by, can be understood as the successive steps of this (re)thinking. The word

'corrido[o]r' has various meanings and connotations in this respect. The concertina fold is presented in the specfic artistic environment of Arti et Amicitiae. By exhibiting this concertina fold on a pedestal-table, one can walk along this corrido[o]r on both sides - alongside the pictures of the entrances and the words that make up a sentence. In this way the corrido[o]r also functions as a loop: we move from pictures to words and from words back to pictures. Simultaneously, a photo-sequence addressing the same issue is installed at Vendelstraat 8, second floor on the right representing this part of the philosophical community. In contrast to the concertina fold, which presents a bird's eye-view, one can only experience this part of the installation in real time|space discovering that the photos of the entrances of the rooms hang next to the real entrances, thus offering a different perspective on the corridor itself as well as creating a different view of this philosophical community.

Timeline

2|9 - 18|9 2005

Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam. Corrido[o]r - studies for a Philosophers Room. One-of-a-kind book, concertina fold, two-sided, on sheet iron pedestal table 200(w) x 60(d) x 90(h) cm and simultaneously exhibition of installation Corrido[o]r - studies for a Philosophers Room Vendelstraat 8, second floor on the right. Photo-sequence of nineteen photos on Japanese paper 1200(l) x 97(h) cm, 2005.

2005 - 2010

Photo-sequence Philosophers Room. Nineteen photo-prints, representing the entrances of the rooms at Vendelstraat 8, second floor, Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam.

12|2004

Corrido[o]r. The philosophers on the second floor at the right at Vendelstraat 8 participated in the making of a first version of a website, which later extended to the entire philosophical community. The website was removed from the internet in 2007.