Uncertainty Seminars: Feel The Space Breathing

Uncertainty Seminars: Feel The Space Breathing. Ontwerp: The Rodina

Date: Friday16 August 2019
Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague and various locations in the city
Language: English

Uncertainty Seminars are hybrid events, embracing doubt as a cultural strategy. This edition of Uncertainty Seminars was for a small group of participants, by invitation.

Uncertainty Seminars: Feel The Space Breathing is a 'slow' and open way of tapping into urgent questions around public space, the fluidity of urban structures, and informal use of the city. We're thinking about the meaning of access and non-access, and ways in which it is or is not visible where important events have taken place; ways in which we, places, architectures, breathe in and out and through these spaces.

Despite the vastness and complexity of these question, this gathering was small and intimate. It is an alibi to open up several strands of research in which various concerns, interests and collaborations merge with Stroom's DNA as an organization that's been working around questions of art in relation to the public space for three decades. Mostly, we focused on the ‘present': how current affairs have defined certain (in)visible elements in public structures and space. But also how some of these spaces have become part of 'current affairs' and politics themselves.

Our aims of the meet-up was to connect different people working from a close affinity with these questions, to open a conversation about ways in which everyone's practice is fused by unfolding events in the present-day. And thereby, to map the most urgent questions in the realm of inclusivity and the city, making space for difference, appropriation of the public space, and lived experience of and in a city.

Specal thanks to:
Uncertainty Seminars is made possible with the support of the Mondriaan Fund and the Municipality of The Hague.