Artwork

A ‘continuous living room’ where the public can throw a look on the life of the writer and at the same time discuss the issues of the Resonances Festival. Open to all visitors, the Living Room welcomes all points of view, discusses perplexities, and enhances questions with new questions, all in a down-to-earth, amicable atmosphere where all opinions are allowed and all ideas can be followed. Wherever they may lead.

The Living Room find its origin in the Resonances workshop organised by the JRC in September 2015. It was an open space where artists, scientists and one politician met to discuss the possibilities of understanding and fertilising each other. The September-workshop was an important first step to understand the meaning of Resonance: resonance in the specific form of communication as dialogue, is not a perfectly symmetric relationship between sounds, as it can be in highly sophisticated stereo sound systems, but rather an echo – the emitted sounds return in a similar, more or less recognizable but slightly modified form.

It was that kind of dialogue we had between scientists, artists and one politician. Everybody had a basic idea of certain terms or words as resonance, sustainability, food, nutrition, environmental impact etc. We tried to explain to each other what might be the more specific meanings (“connotations”), from the point of view of the various “specialists” in their specific “field of sense”.

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Open space installation designed by Alf Schneditz.