De Salon Foundation hosts a series of lectures , interviews and discussions about societal developments. De Salon is held monthly at Felix Meritis in Amsterdam. My lecture revolved around the (expected) societal commitment of art vis á vis a society in rapid transformation. What should artistic urgency be pointed at? At individual artistic development, or at (partially) serving the cultural/political/social discourse at large? As a leitmotif (with the hybrid history of Felix Meritis' as centre of the arts and sciences in mind) I chose to depart from the notion of the artwork as 'probe': as both vehicle and trigger for investigation and transformation. More information about De Salon can be found here: http://www.de-salon.net/

1. DE SALON #2

4. PROBE
(SONDE)

6. HET
COMMUNISTISCH
EXPERIMENT
(HET WOORD BIJ DE DAAD: 1848-)

7. PROBE

8. SITUAÇÃO T/ T
(ARTUR BARRIO, 1970)

12. THE
CREMASTER
CYCLE
(MATTHEW BARNEY, 1994-2002)

15. TILTED ARC
(RICHARD SERRA, 1981)

16. ?
A S E LF- E N C LOS E D A E S TH E TIC S Y S TE M ?

17. BINNEN
BUITEN
( E EN I N - ZIC HZ EL F GE S LOT EN EST HETISCH SYSTEEM )

18. NATIONAAL
GASTARBEIDER
MONUMENT
(HANS VAN HOUWELINGEN, 2010)

21. PROBE

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