Mark dion

For more than twenty years, the American artist Mark Dion explores the crossings between art and science, visions and production of knowledge, collection and modes of\nrepresentation. Replacing a scientist amateur, a historian or a biologist, Mark Dion carries an often humorous but critical glance on the relations between culture and\nnature.\n\nMark Dion debates on the evolution of the natural history, the role of the scientist and them (Re) presentations of nature and the ecological systems in science, museum,\ndisplay, zoo and Art.\nIt also raises the question about the role of the artist (as performer interprets, critical) and about the function of art (a free zone of critical debates, talks or of inspection of the systems of value cultural?). Mark Dion is delayed on the paradoxes between our common perception of the systems of knowledge (evolution of the history) and our\naptitude for the dense images (tales). Mark Dion explores the museum like a metaphor of common knowledge. The project is composed of five various sections which will meet principal divisions of scientific knowledge as proposed at the 19th century in the museums of Natural History: department of the social sciences, entomology, archaeology, ornithology, mammalogy. A sixth chapter is centered on the museums and the culture of the collection.

Natacha Pugnet (Auteur) - Verschenen op 10/02/2007 bij